The cooperative and its group of tutors is an educational establishment providing a structure for language learning and promoting the future of languages and cultural diversity awareness.
Drawing on the professional skills and many years of experience as language teachers of the four founding members, the Centre is committed to offering a variety of courses in the area, and is developing partnerships with local organisations as well as those abroad.
Our courses are delivered face to face or by distance learning, part-time
or intensively. Programmes are innovative, learner orientated, flexible
and can be tailor-made for individual clients. Our commitment to languages
ensures we will not cancel classes unless absolutely necessary.
Joyce Hinrichs
I have been lucky enough to have enjoyed a rich career teaching both English
and Dutch in various parts of the world as well as in the Tayside area more
recently. I’m an enthusiastic supporter of language learning and enjoy having
the opportunity to promote communication through language in the classroom
as well as in everyday life. My other work interests include translation
and interpreting and I have assisted various organisations within the local
business world in this way.
Catherine Meyer
I am the only non-teaching member of the team, but share with my colleagues
the same passion for languages. I’ll be dealing with the administration
of the company. Since I qualified as a trilingual secretary in France I
have pursued my interest in modern languages either through various secretarial
positions or through learning different languages for personal development
and for travelling and discovering the four corners of the world.
Fabienne Raeside MA, MLitt, FHEA
I started my career with teaching English as a foreign language and
went on to teach French, my native language in Scotland. I have 18 years
experience teaching undergraduates and postgraduates at various
universities, teaching French to Primary school teachers while at the same
time being involved in teaching life-long learning programmes to the public
and working in translation and interpretation for the business community.
