LCF In The News

In a month’s time, Auckland City should be busier than it has ever been and France will be in the spot light!
LCF Fun Languages will be hosting a stall there to have fun with children in French and promote our French classes in Auckland! This unique event “ A French Experience at the viaduct” will be on September the 24th from 10am-5pm.

It will gather as many aspects of France as possible and will include

•  Market of exclusive French goods
• Presentation of France’s culture
• On/off stage entertainment
• Collectible French cars display and much more

Calling all Francophones and Francophiles! 

Connected Woman of the Week: With a flair for marketing and an ability to mentor, Nickie Race-Jones used her love of languages to develop LCF Fun Languages, rapidly becoming the leading provider of language solutions to schools and children throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Who is she?

Nickie Race-Jones is a successful businesswoman, educator and mother of two who has turned a passion for languages into a fulfilling and inspiring career. Originally from the UK, she speaks four languages fluently and now owns and operates LCF Fun Languages in Australia and New Zealand.

Race-Jones oversees the growing business on both sides of the Tasman while raising a family and acting as a business mentor and advocate for early childhood language learning.

LCF Fun Languages Director featured in Connected Women

Read more: LCF Fun Languages Director featured in Connected Women

'Bienvenue a Cafe Cadel! Jim Callahan's Melbourne Fun Language Clubs celebrate Cadel Evans's historic victory in the 2011 Tour de France' Jim offers exciting and inspiring French lessons to children in Melbourne and is himself a keen cyclist. Needless to say, the children celebrated at Australian cyclist, Cadel Evan's win in the Tour de France. What fun!

LCF Fun Languages Director, Nickie Race Jones,  featured in new book

Our own LCF Fun Languages Director, Nickie Race Jones, has been featured in a collection of advice from some of Australia’s best and brightest Mums in Business.

Starting a family and establishing a new business are two of the most challenging things you can do, yet mumpreneurs manage both! In this book readers will meet a range of talented mumpreneurs and hear how combining work and family has helped them create a successful home-based business and how they can do it too!

The book, published by connect2mums, celebrates and recognizes Mums in business achieving outstanding success in areas such as business, product development, services and innovation in businesses from Australia and New Zealand.

There are many benefits to balancing business and motherhood as Nickie Race Jones explains, ”I wanted to combine a flexible and rewarding business with my family life and what I am passionate about.  The only way to do this was to create my own international business”.

The book has been specifically written for ‘mumpreneurs’. Mumpreneurs are entrepreneurs with a difference; they are women who aspire to have the best of both family time and their professional ambitions in a way that works for them. These innovative new businesses are creating new employment opportunities, boosting the economy, and allowing women to find new skills, express their creativity and put their professional prowess into action.

It can be challenging to be a successful business woman whilst raising a family and Nickie Race Jones gives this advice for others thinking about starting their own enterprise. ” Be clear on what your goals and vision are before you start your business and most importantly, what your exit strategy is.  Passion is vital but it is easy to lose sight of WHY you started in the first place.  This is the only thing that will keep you going when you are at the bottom of the roller coaster”.

 ‘Amazing Mumpreneurs’ will be launched at Mercure Sydney on Friday 26 August 2011.

For more information or to order books go to: www.connect2mums.com.au

Look at our wonderful French Clubs in the Dominion Post today for Bastille Day.  Annick Withinshaw is our passionate and committed Wellington Manager who has been teaching these lovely children at Pipitea Childcare Centre. 

Happy Bastille Day!

With Bastille Day fast approaching, the papers are full of all things French, a language and culture that never goes out of favour.

In the NZ Herald this week, our wonderful LCF French Clubs get a well-deserved mention!

Nurture Magazine article about LCF Fun Languages in Melbourne

Wonderful article about Katie and her preschool French and Spanish pupils in Melbourne. It really does show how much young children LOVE learning another language and much they absorb so easily!

Have a read!       Nurture Editorial

To tie in with Anzac Day, read this great article in the Central Coast Express Advocate about our new LCF Manager Nathalie Roy! 

IN April 1918 during World War I, the small town of Villers-Bretonneux in the north of France was the site of the world’s first battle between two tank forces - the British against the Germans.

The Germans took the town but that night and the next day it was recaptured by the 4th and 5th Division of the Australian Imperial Force at a cost of more than 1200 Australian lives.

The people of Villers-Bretonneux remain indebted to Australia and a memorial was established in their honour in 1919.

Read more: Language Key to Great Partnership for Anzac Day

LCF Fun Languages run fun Mandarin clubs in Brisbane and Erin and Tom's clubs were featured in the newspaper.

Unfortunately, most Australian kids miss out on the opportunity to learn a second language during the first eight years of life, the most crucial period for language learning.  Read the article...

    LCF Fun Mandarin in Brisbane