Plan a trip to the beach this summer that includes a Fluent City workshop! Dive in and get exposure to French or Spanish without committing to more than a quick hour and a half lesson outdoors. Fire Island workshops are held on Saturday mornings by the pool or on the beach with backup classrooms used [...]
by Michelle Kiefer When I was a college student studying a foreign language, I often thought about how my language education might fit into my career after school and what foreign language jobs I could hold. I usually came across the same stock answers when I researched my options: teacher, interpreter, or flight attendant. Lacking [...]
Brooklyn Exposed asked readers to share on Twitter why they would want to take a class in French, Spanish or 8 other languages at Fluent City. We love the answers we received! Congrats to contest winner @Pocohannah who responded, “I want to win @FluentCity Italian class fr @BrooklynExposed b/c I’ll convince my Italian CEO, in Italian, to [...]
Fluent City is pumped for our panel on the art of literary translation going down at WORD (126 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11221) this Friday, March 29th at 7pm. The panel was originally cancelled due to a storm (silly New York weather) but it is finally happening and we want you to join! Fluent City [...]
Well, sorta. CollegeHumor used Fluent City’s Brooklyn classrooms to film an episode of Very Mary-Kate (a parody of Mary-Kate Olsen) that aired today. Have a film shoot or other rental needing space? We have 10 classrooms available in Brooklyn during the days and love coworkers and other creative types milling about our space. Contact us! rentspace@fluentcity.com. Check out the [...]
In the past three years, Fluent City has grown from private French lessons taught out of a living room to an incredibly successful business that now teaches group classes in 10 languages and has locations in 4 US cities (New York, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia). While there are several factors that have contributed to the [...]
by Jessica Ochalek Nearly everybody is a somebody-ski where I grew up, in the sunshine of Kosciusko Park, playing hide-and-go seek-under pool tables and behind cigarette machines at my dad’s bar, on the predominately Polish south side of Milwaukee, WI. Besides the usual fare, our Christmases included my Greek grandmother’s homemade baklava alongside my Polish [...]
by Darya Chernina In times when French actors are moving to Russia, it’d be good to check out the world of Russian (and formerly Soviet) cinema. Russia has a vast legacy of great films and works of animation but to get a good glimpse into those mysterious Russian souls (and sense of humor) it’d be [...]
by Mandy Menaker The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are my absolute favorite weeks of the year. The reason: It’s socially acceptable to listen to holiday music. If you have been around Fluent City’s Williamsburg studio space anytime in the past two weeks while I was on DJ duty, you have most likely heard Mariah Carey, [...]
Fluent City has long joked that we run a dating service, since many of our students will continue their language practice over drinks once a class ends. Our crush of the week is Fluent City Spanish student Matthew, who decided to use our awesome database of available sexy linguists to find his next boyfriend. Says Matthew… [...]
