Hay-on-Wye · Spanish · French · Italian · Welsh

Learn a language in a town made of books

Evening classes of six adults, taught in the Old Chapel on Lion Street by two teachers who grew up speaking the languages they teach.

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Spring term 11 January – 19 March 2027

Class size Six people, never more

Levels A1 to C1, twelve groups

Town of books, town of readers

Where are you now?

A1 You can greet people and order a coffee.

A2 You can book a room and explain a problem.

B1 You can hold a conversation about your week.

B2 You can argue a point and follow the radio.

C1 You read novels and rarely reach for English.

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Four ways in

Most people start on a Monday evening

The evening groups are the heart of the school. Everything else exists for the weeks when an evening class is not enough, or not possible.

Evening group classes

Ten-week terms · Mondays to Thursdays · £150

Ten weeks, ninety minutes a week, six people around one table. Beginner to advanced, in all four languages — you speak for most of the lesson, because with six people there is nowhere to hide.

A1 from scratch A2 improvers B1 intermediate B2–C1 conversation

18:30 and 20:15 starts, two rooms running at once

Same group, same teacher, all ten weeks

Materials and coffee included in the fee

Sit in on half a lesson before you enrol

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Intensive weekends

Four times a year · Sat & Sun 10:00–16:00 · £120

Two full days of speaking, four times a year. Worth about half a term, and the fastest way back in if you have let a language go quiet.

The four dates

One-to-one online

One hour · £34

For shift work, for exam deadlines, for the fortnight before a move abroad. Booked at a time that suits you.

Saturday conversation café

Saturdays 10:00–11:30 · Free

Drop in, buy your own coffee, and speak only the language you are learning. No booking, no lesson plan.

Spring term 2027

Four languages, two teachers, twelve groups

Every group has a level, an evening and a price. Pick the line that sounds like you — the full timetable has the lot, with times.

Spanish A1 · A2 · B1 · B2–C1 Mon, Tue & Wed evenings with Elena Moretti-Sanz

French A1 · A2 · B1 · B2–C1 Mon, Tue & Thu evenings with Rhiannon Lefèvre

Italian A1 · A2 Mon & Wed evenings with Elena Moretti-Sanz

Welsh A1 · A2 Mon & Tue evenings with Rhiannon Lefèvre

Intensive weekends

Two days, one language, no English

Four weekends a year, 10:00 to 16:00 both days, £120 including lunch from the market. Eight places each.

14–15 Nov 2026 Spanish & French A2 and above

20–21 Feb 2027 Italian & Welsh All levels

15–16 May 2027 Spanish & Italian B1 and above

7–8 Aug 2027 French & Welsh All levels

Who teaches you

Two teachers. Both grew up in the languages they teach

Between them they cover the four languages, and between them they are the whole school — there is no office, no coordinator and no supply teacher.

Elena Moretti-Sanz

Spanish · Italian

Raised in Trieste by a Spanish mother and an Italian father, and a teacher of adults for fourteen years, the last six of them in Powys. Elena runs the beginner groups and the Wednesday conversation class.

Rhiannon Lefèvre

French · Welsh

First language Welsh, brought up between Talgarth and Rennes, and a translator before she taught. Rhiannon takes the French ladder from A1 to C1 and both Welsh groups.

Tell us what you can already say

One short message is enough: the language, roughly where you are, and which evenings work. We will tell you which group has a chair free.

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The Old Chapel, Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AD · +447700900215