South Belfast Lingotot Centre

Ciao! Bonjour! Hola!

Welcome to Lingotot South Belfast!

My name is Grazia and I opened the Belfast branch of Lingotot in March 2020. I was born and raised in the Abruzzo region of Italy, I spent all my school holidays in the region of Puglia, & I left home to travel and discover the beauty of other countries, culture and ultimately other languages.
Languages have always been a huge part of my life. I have lived in Ireland & France before Belfast became my home in 2006 where I now live with my northern-Irish husband and my two boys who are 8 and 6.

TEAM

Grazia: Business owner. Native Italian and fluent French and Spanish speaker. I teach some Italian and French classes/camps/workshops but mostly I do the work behind the scenes.

Julie: French tutor. Native French from Nantes. Julie teaches babies & toddlers groups, private sessions (children or adults), French for age 6-11, kids yoga. Julie is qualified in Yoga for kids as well as in the other Lingotot qualifications. Julie has experience in childcare and tutoring.

Maria: Spanish tutor. Native Spanish from Marbella. Maria teaches groups age 0-5 and afterschools. Maria has experience in teaching languages and sport coaching with groups of children.

Eva: Spanish tutor. Native Spanish from Soria. Eva teaches afterschools and school sessions. Eva has a Master degree in teaching and a wealth of experience in teaching languages in England and NI.

All our staff have the following certificates: AccessNi disclosure, Level3 in Teaching Early Years Languages, First aid, Food hygiene, Safeguarding, Health & Safety, GDPR.

LANGUAGES CURRENTLY OFFERED IN BELFAST:

We currently offer French, Italian, Spanish. I would like to add Irish in the coming months.

WE OFFER:

Nursery and Day care Programmes (we follow EYFS curriculum).
Primary school Programmes (we follow KS1-KS2 curriculum, KS2 qualification)
Afterschool Clubs
Classes in local parishes for individuals (age 0-5 with parents and 6-11 children only)
Learn trough Yoga (French only)
Private sessions
Care homes programmes.

WE WORK WITH:

Nurseries
Day care centres
Primary Schools
Special Needs Schools
Charities, Community Organisations
Councils
Care Homes

JOB VACANCIES:

Any vacancies are advertised on Indeed.

A presto! À bientôt!

Grazia x

Testimonials

From parents
From schools

French Family yoga

I attended a yoga session at Maitri studio with my son. The session was great, my son really enjoyed and so did I. The activities were well planned and included yoga animal poses, while learning their names in French. Julie, lead the class and kept everyone engaged with games, phisical movement and music. Can't wait to go back after the holiday break.

G.

French Lingochat - Adult One to One

Julie is very engaging. I really enjoyed the sessions with her. Highly recommended for adullt one to one and group sessions.

Karen

Italian Mini-camp July 2021

Brilliant outdoor mini-camp. Grazia organizes lots of brilliant activities to keep the children active. My daughter came back every time superchatty telling me about all things they did. Highly recommended!

Martha

French 2 days holiday camp

My daughter loved the French holiday mini-camp in May. She didn't want to come home. We hope there will be more camps and we'll definitely join again.

Lucy

Weekly Online French 03/03/2021

My boys look forward to the class every week!

Mary

Italian Online weekly lesson 20/02/2021

I've just signed C. up for the next block.

She loves it!

Sarah

Italian Online weekly class - Generations Connect (all grandparents invited)

Funny and effective method to learn Italian language.
Grazia is a smiling and engaging teacher and children are very happy to learn with her.

Margherita

Italian Online weekly lesson 07/12/2020

Thanks Grazia, it was lovely tonight!
E. really enjoyed it.

He sings 'Twinkle Twinkle' in Italian :)

Doris

FREE Taster Italian Online 21/09/2020

It was amazing!!! Thank you Grazia.

A. and V. loved it!!! You could see their smiley faces! See you next week!

Eyssel

Primary & Nursery language provision during school hours

We have been using LingoTot to provide Spanish language teaching in our school for the last few
months now. Our Spanish teacher works with the entire school from nursery right up to P7. The
children really enjoy the fun, interactive and engaging activities provided by the friendly Spanish
teacher.
Working with Lingotot, we were able to discuss our needs and Grazia provided me with a coherent
and structured syllabus of the children in our school. As a school, we wanted an emphasis on fun
and enjoyment and Lingotot took this on board. Our children look forward to our language lessons
every week, are having fun and making progress in their love of languages.
I would be very happy to recommend Lingotot to anyone looking to add languages to the provision
within their school.

Mr S. Crozier (Principal at Templepatrick P.S.)

School 6 weeks pilot programme

The lessons are interactive and engaging. The children thoroughly enjoyed the sessions.

There was good repetition of the vocabulary and this allows the children to easily recall the new words that were introduced.

The activities were active and involved physical movement. This is great as nobody gets bored or loses concentration however sometimes the children needed a little reminder that the whole point was to reinforce the French words. The excitement levels got a little high occasionally and it was good that you were able to stop and remind everyone what they needed to do!

The 6 week session was perfect and I liked the way that you were able to introduce other vocabulary such as Colours, Greetings and Numbers as well. This means that the children are actually learning more than just the Animals vocabulary.

The workbooks are excellent and would compliment the sessions beautifully. I think that perhaps these may be a little long for our own needs but I can see how they may be partly used or broken down into smaller chunks to use from time to time.

Mrs Halpin - St Joseph Carryduff P.S.