Callan Method Organisation

16/04/2024

NEW BLOG:

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Street Child United, providing English language lessons to 60 participants on the Street Child United Young Leaders programme. Street Child United is a charity which uses the power of sport to change the lives of some of the world’s most disadvanta...

16/08/2023

Huge congratulations to the England team today - what a victory!!!

03/07/2023

The Brazilian city of Indaiatuba, home to the excellent Callan Accredited BC English School is ranked amongst the top cities to live in the country. Not the easiest city name to pronounce, it originates from Tupi, an indigenous language the Portuguese explorers would have encountered 500 years ago.

19/06/2023

The Charles Bridge was built more than 600 years ago, though was known simply as The Stone Bridge until 1870. It crosses the river Vitava in the city that is also home to the Charles University and the fabulous Callan Accredited school Jazyková škola LEXIS. Where is this?

12/06/2023

Do you know which suburb of south London the photo represents? Interestingly it’s also the home of The Great Lion Services, an excellent Callan Accredited school teaching English to the Spanish-speaking community of the capital.

05/06/2023

Students at the many Callan Acccredited schools across the wonderful city of Istanbul will get plenty of opportunity to practice their English in the coming days. Thousands of football fans from the north of England are heading to Turkey to watch Manchester City try to win the Champions League trophy for the first time!

29/05/2023

London's Covent Garden started out life as a humble fruit and vegetable market. Today it is the throbbing heart of the city, hub of entertainment, home to the wonderful Royal Opera House and the long-established and equally respected Callan Accredited ABC School of English!

22/05/2023

Do you know which is the only country in south-east Asia never to have been colonised by a European power? Formerly known as Siam, it is home to 70 million people, many of whom learn English at Callan Accredited NOVA Online_TH!

15/05/2023

The excellent Callan Accredited High Level Academy is located in Madrid - a highly appropriate name as this city is the highest of all the capitals in Europe above sea level (with apologies to the tiny principality of Andorra!).

08/05/2023

Where would you be if you were surrounded by Piacentinos? The answer can be found in the north of Italy, heading out of Milan on the road towards Bologna. Need some help? Then talk to our friends at Callan Accredited The Language Club, located right in the heart of this beautiful city.

01/05/2023

Mayday! Mayday! This is an internationaly recognised distress call in radio communication, used by pilots and emergency services. It was created by an Englishman but in fact is based on the French "m'aidez!, m'aidez!" meaning "help me! help me!"

24/04/2023

Brazilian city Curitiba, capital of the southern state of Paraná, prides itself on culture, a spectacular Botanical Gardens, and the famous Callan Accredited New England Language School that has been running intensive English courses with great success for over 20 years!

17/04/2023

It is 30 years since Slovakia became an independent country and although it has a population of just over 5 million people this small nation now has more than 30 Callan Accredited schools.
Needless to say, English is widely spoken!

10/04/2023

Did you know that Easter Monday is a national holiday in more than half the countries of the world? Many Callan Accredited schools will be closed today, as indeed is the Callan head office in London. Enjoy the break and return refreshed!

03/04/2023

Callan coming to South Korea! Daniel (left) learned to speak English through the Callan Method and has just completed teacher training in readiness for the opening of his new school. Pictured here in Seoul with David Jenkins from the Callan business development team.

29/03/2023

Another new country for the Callan Method!

We’d like to welcome Grato Language Solutions to the Callan Family! A group of the school’s directors and teachers recently completed their comprehensive training course with us, so they’re now well on their way to becoming the first Callan Accredited School in Chile! Here’s what Claudio Tol...

24/03/2023

A treat for Callan students in London this Sunday as it's the annual Boat Races on the River Thames. The contests have been held between the rowers of Oxford and Cambridge Universities since the 1820s, the latter having won the men's race four more times than their arch rivals..

20/03/2023

Today is the Journée Internationale de la Francophonie when the world's 300 million French speakers celebrate their language and culture. Did you know it ranks fifth in the most widely used languages in the world and is spoken in 29 countries?

17/03/2023

Wishing all our Callan friends and colleagues on the Emerald Isle a happy and joyous St Patrick's Day 2023. Go easy on that Guinness!!

15/03/2023

Check out our latest blog post!

Here are some very interesting insights from Anja Rubcic, co-owner and director of Inicijativa, a Callan Accredited School in Croatia: Over the last three years, running a language school has proven to be quite challenging. However, one of the most significant lessons we have learned is the growing....

13/03/2023

Gdansk is one of the most visited cities in Poland and it's easy to see why. It's colourful, stylish, full of great architecture and oozing in character.... a fabulous place to be for students at the long-established Callan Accredited English Institute.

06/03/2023

Callan Accredited school AMIGAS jazyková škola in the lovely Czech city of Brno, is just two hours by road from the capital city Prague. Even closer are the borders of Austria, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.. so Callan students here at the heart of Europe can visit five countries in one day!

27/02/2023

The Brazilian state of São Paulo only ranks as the country's 12th (of 26) by area but it is still larger than the whole of the UK! It represents one third of Brazil's GDP and is now home to more than sixty successful Callan Accredited schools. And the number is growing!

20/02/2023

Do you recognise this unusually-shaped European country? It covers less than half the area of England, around a million people live in each of the different coloured areas and it is home to the excellent Callan Accredited schools Inicijativa - Centar za edukaciju.

13/02/2023

Did you know that there are as many as 75 regional languages in France? Of the seven bigger ones the most widely used is Occitan, spoken in the south by around 400,000 locals. Of course they speak French too, and indeed, English, at the Callan Accredited MAD Institute in Marseille! https://buff.ly/3WoiEC3

06/02/2023

Warsaw, capital of Poland, is known as the Phoenix City. It was almost completely destroyed during WWII but has long since risen from the ashes and is now one of the most advanced cities in Europe. Today it's a great place to live, as the students and teachers of Callan Accredited School GB English will tell you!

30/01/2023

Founded by the Greeks, taken over by the Romans, then part of the Ottoman Empire - it's easy to see why Izmir has always been in demand. Turkish learners of English love the Callan Method, as this gentleman, owner of a long-established Callan Accredited school, will tell you!. Deren Koray Yabancı Dil Kursu - İzmir

23/01/2023

Minas Gerais is far from Brazil's most famous state but it produces more coffee than any other on its green and rolling hills. It's home to more than 20 million people and well known for its art, architecture and towns of cobbled streets, and indeed 17 Callan Accredited Schools