A Language Café is not so much a place but a concept which sees language learning as being a social activity which doesn’t just have to take place in a traditional classroom. Drawing on the existing and growing café culture around Europe, this new way of language learning takes place in real cafés and also in other publicly accessible social spaces such as libraries, community centres and institutions of learning. Language cafés support themselves by collaborating with local coffee shops, coffee companies and coffee suppliers and while teachers are on hand to help in the early stages the cafés are run and sustained by the learners themselves. Together learners decide what and how to learn together and meet at times and in places that suit their needs and interests. A group interested in books and reading might wish to meet in a book café or library, a group of traditional learners might wish to meet in their college café, a group of film buffs could meet in a cine café and of course those wishing just to meet and chat on a regular basis could meet in a regular café. Indeed a Language Café could be set up in peoples’ homes as well. The choice is yours.
To find out more about the language café project visit www.languagecafe.eu
The remainder of this site is devoted to Language Café goings on in Izmir, Turkey.
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