The accommodation in the venue is expensive, at £207 per night for this year's events. We have some rooms reserved there for £277 for both the Friday and Saturday nights, including breakfast. Contact us if you'd like to book one.
The Esperanto Association of Britain is organising its fourth Studa Semajnfino, and we'll be running it free of charge! This time we'll be in Edgbaston!
If you've already started learning Esperanto but aren't yet a confident, fluent speaker, then this weekend course will be of benefit to you. Our friendly team of tutors will provide a range of activities tailored to a range of abilities, from those who are relatively new and have been learning by themselves, all the way up to those who can hold conversations and engage in discussion to a reasonably good degree.
Four experienced teachers will be present to ensure excellent quality and variety. You'll be working with Tim Owen, Maurizio Giacometto and John Greenwood, plus our special guest Birke Dockhorn, a German Esperantist and member of the Akademio de Esperanto.
We've got three fairly large classrooms located next door to each other, where you'll be participating with people at a similar level, but free to mix among yourselves as you wish.
We'll be at the University of Birmingham's Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre, 53 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2RS.
The event will be running from 9.30am on Saturday the 4th and 9am on Sunday the 5th of October. We'll be ending the sessions at about 5pm on both days.
The venue offers its own rooms; you couldn't be much closer! We're currently offering to take bookings for £277 for both nights, including breakfast; the cost is £207 per night if you go direct.
Peter Scott House is nearby and offers cheaper rooms than the conference venue. There are also plenty of hotels in Birmingham, which is a ten-minute train journey away via the nearby stop, University.
If the cost of staying in a hotel is prohibitive for you, please do feel free to request some financial support via the sign-up form.
Perhaps you've only recently started learning Esperanto, and are working your way through Duolingo or Complete Esperanto. We know that taking those first steps is very daunting, which is why we'll have a classroom set up just for people like you. You'll get the full works: sessions with all six of our tutors, who will make sure that you feel comfortable and supported. We were all new once!
You'll get plenty of opportunities to interact with others via games and discussion groups, and will be free to drop in and out of other groups as you see fit.
You'll be engaging in higher-level discussions, trying your hand at translation, literary analysis, and refining your capabilities ... without speaking a word of English!
The system we use (A2, B1 ...) is based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Want to get an idea of what they actually mean? Here's a self-assessment checklist!
Take a look at the programme to see the range of activities you'll be able to enjoy!
A chance to pick up some of our books, refreshments during the day, and opportunities to use Esperanto socially outside the classroom!
Interested? Then sign up, using the button below! You can also send through any questions or ask to be contacted a little later once the event starts to take shape via our contact form!
