abc Core Values & Ideas
The abc Language Institute has built its reputation and success around these core values:
- Real Development: A method adapted to your progress.
- Real Learning: In our courses, you will practice and apply the language.
- Real Contact: Full linguistic immersion in the language. Our teachers (all native speakers) encourage you to speak and interact in the language you have selected.
- Real Language: Contact with authentic language. This is done by our teachers through literature, music and film in the original language.
- Real Training: Based on everyday situations rather than dry grammar exercises.
- Real Grammar and Vocabulary: Theory and practice in balance.
- Real Material: We adapt the teaching materials to our students’ needs.
- Real Intimacy: Our groups are small enough for active contribution – and large enough for variety and diversity in the classroom.
- Real Professionalism: Our curriculum is based on the European Framework of Reference for Languages (ERR).
Real Life Long Learning: We teach you how you learn. As an English proverb says: “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.