by Ciui Training | Jul 25, 2026 | Latest News
The first day of Year 7 is nerve-wracking — new faces, new building, nobody quite sure where to sit. This free, ready-to-print icebreaker gets your whole class up, talking and smiling in the first twenty minutes. Grab it in English, Spanish or French. It’s a...
by Ciui Training | Jul 25, 2026 | Latest News
GCSE Spanish can feel like a mountain — hundreds of words, four skills, two exam papers, and a speaking test that makes even confident students nervous. But you don’t climb a mountain by staring at it. You do it in small, smart, regular steps. Here’s...
by Ciui Training | Jul 24, 2026 | Latest News
Your child comes home from their first term of secondary school full of new words — ¡hola!, me llamo, tengo doce años — and part of you thinks: lovely… but I can’t help, I don’t speak a word of Spanish. Sound familiar? Here’s the good news: you...
by Ciui Training | Jul 22, 2026 | Latest News
Six weeks off school sounds like heaven — until September, when your teen sits back down in class having quietly forgotten a chunk of what they learned. It has a name: the summer slide. And in the year before GCSEs, it matters more than most parents realise. The good...
by Ciui Training | Jul 22, 2026 | Latest News
You have booked the flights, you are counting down the weeks, and somewhere near the bottom of your to‑do list sits a nagging question: how much Spanish do I actually need before I move to Spain? It is one of the most common worries British people have before...
by Ciui Training | Jul 14, 2026 | Latest News
Ana-Maria Ciui ✔ GCSE Examiner · Language Teacher Born in Romania. I teach Spanish and French in a UK secondary school, and I founded Ciui Training. There is a girl in Year 10 somewhere in England who speaks two languages fluently. At home she speaks Romanian — to her...
