All courses are designed to be stimulating, focused, enjoyable and immediately useful.

Adult General English courses:

Flexible and fun, they combine attention to structure and grammar with an emphasis on communication skills and fluency. A wide range of the most modern techniques is used to ensure maximum progress in all areas. Exam courses are taught by accredited examiners. Books and materials are provided free of charge, and all students have free access to the schools excellent Self-Access Centre outside of class hours as well as un limited free WiFi Broadband. A lively and varied social programme ensures that students integrate rapidly and quickly make friends of other nationalities, further improving their progress in the English language.

Executive Programmes:

LSI carries out training for over 500 multinational companies, including household names such as Bayer, Bosch, CarGlass, Cap Gemini, GazProm, ExxonMobil, Lukoil, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Renault, Siemens.

Trainers are specialists, mainly with business/technical or financial experience. Areas focused on include language and strategies for meetings, negotiating tactics and language, professional presentation skills in English, business telephoning.

Specialist courses are available for law, finance, pharmaceuticals, sales and marketing, military applications, telecommunications, insurance, human resources, and engineering/technical English. Executives have their own stimulating extra-curricular social and cultural programme available.

LSI owns its own superb, purpose-built premises in the centre of Portsmouth, one of the most attractive and historically interesting cities in the South of England.

The school has among the best facilities of any school of its size in Britain: 48 beautifully-decorated and furnished, light, airy classrooms; student Cafeteria and separate student lounge with snooker, pool, table tennis, TV and video; excellent self-access centre with video-points, listening room, language laboratory, computer facilities with fast broadband access to the Internet and the World Wide Web, unlimited free Wi-Fi access. LSI also offers a separate Executive Suite within the building, with its own executive coffee-lounge and private study facilities, together with two fully-equipped Presentations Training rooms.

With only four language schools in a city of 200,000, we are also able to guarantee an exceptionally high quality of host families. Portsmouth has a lively and cosmopolitan atmosphere, being an important ferry port and University city: excellent night-life, a wide range of restaurants, discos, pubs and music venues to suit every taste and pocket, and with first-class sports facilities: tennis, swimming, gymnasium, multi-sports centre, squash, sailing and windsurfing. The city is just 90 minutes from London by fast train, and 1 ½ hours from Heathrow or Gatwick airports, with excellent road and rail connections to all the other major cities and places of interest in the South.