Classes from A1 to C2 level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). A1 - A2 Beginners Let’s start learning French! With this course you will learn the basic elements and key phrases of the French language from the very beginning. You might know a few words and expressions already, but what about making your visit more authentic by interacting with people once you are there? The exercises and activities in this course will build your confidence with useful expressions, pronunciation, grammar practice, verb drills (present tense of most common verbs) and speaking/listening activities, games and quizzes will be included along the way. The syllabus: French language sounds are unique, so you need to know how to pronounce each sound correctly. This course will aim not only at building your confidence when speaking French but also to sound French! Greetings, formal and informal address; how to introduce yourself/ introduce others, ask for something in cafés and restaurants, giving/exchange details, understanding numbers and prices, talking about jobs and family, where you live; asking and understanding directions and other basic vocabulary when going around shopping; you will also learn some cultural traits and fun facts about French people. B1 - B2 Intermediate Now that you know some French, why not improve your language skills further?The intermediate course is structured around grammar activities (such as prepositions, combined articles and pronouns), verb drills (past tenses, progressive forms, future tense), comprehension activities, short stories, common idiomatic expressions, games and quizzes. The syllabus: describing people, booking hotels, booking accommodation online and via emails, more about numbers, describing places, expressing admiration, enquiring about services such as public transport; talking about homes, finding a house; expressing likes and dislikes, shopping (markets), buying shoes and clothes, expressing preferences, writing invitations, giving your opinion, making suggestions, buying tickets, understanding directions, describing situations in the past; making plans for the future. C1 - C2 Advanced The advanced course is designed for students who already know French but want to take their knowledge further in order to hone their skills in all aspects of the language learning. With the advanced course, the student will have the opportunity to learn the grammar and vocabulary acquired with the intermediate course, but more in depth with more listening and practical activities and role play. The focus of this course is to prepare the student to live in a French speaking country. The teaching approach will also include a variety of newspapers articles (short at the beginning and longer articles as the student progresses further). The articles are used as conversation topics in order to hone vocabulary and grammar skills. Short videos from trusted resources will also be used for speaking practice during the class to boost fluency and to learn new common expressions. This course may include writing tasks about specific topics which the student will discuss during the class with the teacher. The syllabus: Includes talking about saying what you have done recently using a variety of verbs and expressions, referring to events in the past using the imperfect tense and the past tense, understanding the weather forecast, making suggestions, understanding and giving instructions, comparing things, giving reasons, solving problems, discussing preferences, asking for and giving advice, talking about holidays, making plans for the future. French school support tuition. We provide help to students who need support with homework in order to pass their exams. Ad hoc extra activities and grammar notes can be provided to revise and consolidate the notions acquired at school. Help with short essay writing and proof reading also available. Online French classes: The online classes are delivered via Skype and classes can be for individuals and for small groups. We can prepare you for DELF B1 (Diplôme d’études en langue Française).
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Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours Overview What's New in This Guide? The behind-the-scenes journal entry for transactions is now included. This course is a continuation of topics following ?Get Started with QuickBooks 2021 for Windows?. First-time QuickBooks users will learn the basic features of the software. Experienced QuickBooks users will quickly learn the new features and functionality of QuickBooks 2021. This course covers features that are in QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2021. Memorizing Transactions Entering a New Memorized Transaction Editing a Memorized Transaction Deleting a Memorized Transaction Grouping Memorized Transactions Using a Memorized Transaction Printing the Memorized Transaction List Customizing Forms Creating a Custom Template Modifying a Template Printing Forms Using Other QuickBooks Accounts Other QuickBooks Account Types Working with Credit Card Transactions Working with Fixed Assets Working with Long-Term Liability Accounts Using the Loan Manager Creating Reports Working with Quick Reports Working with Preset Reports Sharing Reports Exporting Reports to Microsoft Excel Printing Reports Creating Graphs Creating QuickInsight Graphs Using QuickZoom with Graphs Working with the Sales Graph Customizing Graphs Printing Graphs Tracking and Paying Sales Tax Using Sales Tax in QuickBooks Setting Up Tax Rates and Agencies Indicating Who and What Gets Taxed Applying Tax to Each Sale Determining What You Owe Paying Your Tax Agencies Preparing Payroll with QuickBooks Using Payroll Tracking Setting Up for Payroll Setting Up Employee Payroll Information Setting Up a Payroll Schedule Writing a Payroll Check Printing Paycheck Stubs Tracking Your Tax Liabilities Paying Payroll Taxes Preparing Payroll Tax Forms Using Online Banking Setting Up an Internet Connection Setting Up Bank Feeds for Accounts Viewing, Downloading, and Adding Online Transactions Creating Online Payments Transferring Funds Online Canceling Online Payments Managing Company Files Using QuickBooks in Multi-user Mode Setting Up Users and Passwords Setting a Closing Date Sharing Files with an Accountant Updating QuickBooks Backing Up and Restoring a Company File Condensing a Company File Estimating, Time Tracking, and Job Costing Creating Job Estimates Creating an Invoice from an Estimate Displaying Reports for Estimates Updating the Job Status Tracking Time Displaying Reports for Time Tracking Tracking Vehicle Mileage Displaying Vehicle Mileage Reports Displaying Other Job Reports Writing Letters Using the Letters and Envelopes Wizard Customizing Letter Templates Additional course details: Nexus Humans Keep Going With QuickBooks 2021 for Windows training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the Keep Going With QuickBooks 2021 for Windows course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.
Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for This introductory-level Python course is geared for experienced web developers new to Python who want to use Python and Django for full stack web development projects. Overview Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to: Develop full-stack web sites based on content stored in an RDMS Use python data types appropriately Define data models Understand the architecture of a Django-based web site Create Django templates for easy-to-modify views Map views to URLs Take advantage of the built-in Admin interface Provide HTML form processing Geared for experienced web developers new to Python, Introduction to Full Stack Web Development with Python and Django is a five-day hands-on course that teaches students how to develop Web applications using the Django framework. Students will explore the basics of creating basic applications using the MVC (model-view-controller) design pattern, as well as more advanced topics such as administration, session management, authentication, and automated testing. This comprehensive, practical course provides an in-depth exploration of working with the programming language, not an academic overview of syntax and grammar. Students will immediately be able to use Python to complete tasks in the real world. The Python Environment Starting Python Using the interpreter Running a Python script Getting help Editors and IDEs Getting Started Using variables Built in functions Strings Numbers Converting among types Writing to the screen Command line parameters Flow Control About flow control Conditional expressions Relational and Boolean operators while loops Lists and Tuples About sequences Lists and list methods Tuples Indexing and slicing Iterating through a sequence Sequence functions, keywords, and operators List comprehensions Working with Files File overview The with statement Opening a file Reading/writing files Dictionaries and Sets About dictionaries Creating and using dictionaries About sets Creating and using sets Functions Returning values Function parameters Variable Scope Sorting with functions Errors and Exception Handling Exception overview Using try/catch/else/finally Handling multiple exceptions Ignoring exceptions Modules and Packages Creating Modules The import statement Module search path Creating packages Classes About OO programming Defining classes Constructors Properties Instance methods and data Class/static methods and data Inheritance Django Architecture Django overview Sites and apps Shared configuration Minimal Django layout Built in flexibility Configuring a Project Executing manage.py Starting the project Generating app files App configuration Database setup The development server Using cookiecutter Creating models Defining models Related objects SQL Migration Simplel model access Login for Nothing and Admin for Free Setting up the admin user Using the admin interface Views What is a view HttpResponse URL route configuration Shortcut: get_object_or_404() Class-based views Templates About templates Variable lookups The url tag Shortcut: render() Querying Models QuerySets Field lookups Chaining filters Slicing QuerySets Related fields Q objects Advanced Templates Use Comments Inheritance Filters Escaping HTML Custom filters Forms Forms overview GET and POST The Form class Processing the form Widgets Validation Forms in templates Automated Testing Why create tests? When to create tests Using Django's test framework Using the test client Running tests Checking code coverage
Read and discuss the Queen of Crime - Agatha Christie! Highlights Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English 7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English Study this classic detective story and work out the clues by understanding the text Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes Learn English online using this great story from Agatha Christie - the most widely published author of all time and in any language. This is an 7 week online Zoom course with an expert English teacher from the UK. The Book Club book In Death on the Nile Poirot finds himself in the middle of a confusing murder while on holiday in Egypt. What reason would anyone have to murder the beautiful victim? And will they kill again? With an intricate plot, this is one of Agatha Christie's finest murder mysteries. Geoff says: "Agatha Christie is known as the Queen of Crime. She is the best-selling novelist of all time, writing 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. This one stars her much loved detective, Hercule Poirot."
LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION Siân Ellis-Martin joined Blake Friedmann in 2018 and is building a list of fiction and non-fiction at the agency. With regards to fiction, Siân is looking for commercial, upmarket and accessible literary novels. She always wants to be completely absorbed by the world of the novel, to jump into the character’s life and be swept into the narrative as if she’s been there all along. She’s drawn in by compelling characters and relationships, and loves stories with a mystery or question at the heart of them. She’s open to these ideas being explored in a variety of ways, but at the moment, she’d particularly like to find an epic love story, a fun, queer rom-com with an unusual setting or pitch, and/or a sweeping family saga. Siân leans more towards contemporary settings but does enjoy a historical backdrop too. In non-fiction, she’s looking for narrative non-fiction, history from different perspectives and books that make complicated ideas around things like politics and literature more accessible. Her favourite type of non-fiction book is the one that makes you interested in something or someone you’d never thought you would be. Siân would also love to find cookery and food books too, particularly cuisines that are less visible in the book world, or budget cooking. She’s not currently taking on YA, children’s, fantasy or science fiction projects. Siân would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 - 2 page synopsis and the first three chapters (or 5,000 words, whichever is shorter) of your manuscript in a single word document. (In addition to the paid sessions, Siân is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting. Submission Deadline: Wednesday 13th August 2025
LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION Marilia Savvides founded The Plot Agency in 2024. She began her career in publishing at Peters Fraser and Dunlop, where she spent eight years, first as International Rights Agent, and later as Literary Agent, building her own list of authors. In 2019, she joined 42MP, where she worked as Literary Agent for four years, helping to launch and set up the Book Division. She is particularly interested in fiction that is beautifully written and cleverly constructed, but still accessible to a wide readership. She is often drawn to darker tales that weave together excellent characters and an impossible-to-put-down story, from immersive book club novels with a splash of suspense, crime and thrillers, accessible horror, and speculative, genre-bending or dystopian stories. She also adores smart, witty contemporary rom-com in the style of Emily Henry. In the thriller, crime and mystery space she is interested in most areas, except military thrillers and organised crime/ mafia / mob stories. Big hooks and clever set ups are a big bonus! She adores Karin Slaughter (especially her standalone novels) and Gillian Flynn. In the book club / reading group space, she’s particularly drawn to fiction in the vein of Jodi Picoult, Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng, and absolutely fell in love with Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll, both for the incredible voice, and the exquisite use of structure and time. Complicated family dynamics, empathetic and smart approaches to controversial issues, stand out protagonists (like Elizabeth Zott in Lessons in Chemistry or Bernadette in Where D’You Go Bernadette), long buried secrets, complicity, the road to justice, and impossible decisions, are all themes she finds herself drawn to. In the horror space, she’s a sucker for amazing female-centric stories in the vein of Yellowjackets, and the kind of contemporary, accessible horror that Stephen King always nails. She wants to get lost in a world that feels within reach of ours. In the speculative and dystopian spaces, she’s interested in genius ideas that set up big questions or reflect the most broken (and sometimes hidden) parts of society. She loves Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, George Orwell, and also adored The Leftovers, Station Eleven, Wanderers, and The Power. The what-ifs of life and fiction fascinate her. In the grounded sci-fi space, she’d love to find a smart, immersive, and accessible story like The Martian. She doesn’t represent fantasy or romantasy. In regards to sci-fi, unless it’s very grounded and has crossover potential to a mainstream audience, it’s not for her. In the romance space, she’s particularly drawn to smart, complex and witty characters, where the chemistry is jumping off the page. She loves contemporary settings and all the tropes, though the voice and characters must come first to make the reading experience fully immersive. She wants to be cackling, and rooting for the characters with all her heart. She is very hands-on editorially, and loves working with her authors to shape their manuscripts, and brainstorm ideas. The best part of the job is discovering debut authors, and helping them find a home for their books. Marilia would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 - 2 page synopsis and the first 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single Word document. (In addition to the paid sessions, Marilia is kindly offering one free session for low income/underrepresented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting. The submission deadline is: Wednesday 13th August 2025
LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION Diana joined the prestigious DHH Literary Agency in June 2024. She started agenting with Rupert Heath Literary Agency in 2011 before moving to UTA and Marjacq in 2017. Before that she was senior commissioning editor at Transworld. Diana was chosen as one of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars of 2012, was a nominee for RNA Agent of the Year 2019, and was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year 2022 at the British Book Awards. Her list includes a wide range of bestselling and prize-winning authors in the UK and internationally. Diana represents adult fiction and non-fiction. For fiction, she is looking for upmarket women's commercial, with depth and heart, including reading group, historical, saga, uplit and contemporary stories that are irreverent and make her laugh; accessible literary fiction, high-concept crime fiction and thrillers. She has a thing for spy novels and would love to find a great vampire story. On the non-fiction side: memoir, smart, funny feminists, lifestyle, cookery and social justice, and open to anything with a strong, original voice. She also encourages submissions from writers who have been traditionally under-represented. Diana would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 - 2 page synopsis and the first three chapters (a maximum of 5,000 words) of your manuscript in a single word document. (In addition to the paid sessions, Diana is kindly offering one free session for low income/underrepresented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting. The submission deadline is: Wednesday 13th August 2025
Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is aimed at anyone who wants to harness the power of data analytics in their organization including: Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Reporting and BI professionals Analytics professionals and Data Scientists who would like to learn Python Overview This course teaches delegates with no prior programming or data analytics experience how to perform data manipulation, data analysis and data visualization in Python. Mastery of these techniques and how to apply them to business problems will allow delegates to immediately add value in their workplace by extracting valuable insight from company data to allow better, data-driven decisions. Outcome: After attending this course, delegates will: Be able to write effective Python code Know how to access their data from a variety of sources using Python Know how to identify and fix data quality using Python Know how to manipulate data to create analysis ready data Know how to analyze and visualize data to drive data driven decisioning across your organization Becoming a world class data analytics practitioner requires mastery of the most sophisticated data analytics tools. These programming languages are some of the most powerful and flexible tools in the data analytics toolkit. From business questions to data analytics, and beyond For data analytics tasks to affect business decisions they must be driven by a business question. This section will formally outline how to move an analytics project through key phases of development from business question to business solution. Delegates will be able: to describe and understand the general analytics process. to describe and understand the different types of analytics can be used to derive data driven solutions to business to apply that knowledge to their business context Basic Python Programming Conventions This section will cover the basics of writing R programs. Topics covered will include: What is Python? Using Anaconda Writing Python programs Expressions and objects Functions and arguments Basic Python programming conventions Data Structures in Python This section will look at the basic data structures that Python uses and accessing data in Python. Topics covered will include: Vectors Arrays and matrices Factors Lists Data frames Loading .csv files into Python Connecting to External Data This section will look at loading data from other sources into Python. Topics covered will include: Loading .csv files into a pandas data frame Connecting to and loading data from a database into a panda data frame Data Manipulation in Python This section will look at how Python can be used to perform data manipulation operations to prepare datasets for analytics projects. Topics covered will include: Filtering data Deriving new fields Aggregating data Joining data sources Connecting to external data sources Descriptive Analytics and Basic Reporting in Python This section will explain how Python can be used to perform basic descriptive. Topics covered will include: Summary statistics Grouped summary statistics Using descriptive analytics to assess data quality Using descriptive analytics to created business report Using descriptive analytics to conduct exploratory analysis Statistical Analysis in Python This section will explain how Python can be used to created more interesting statistical analysis. Topics covered will include: Significance tests Correlation Linear regressions Using statistical output to create better business decisions. Data Visualisation in Python This section will explain how Python can be used to create effective charts and visualizations. Topics covered will include: Creating different chart types such as bar charts, box plots, histograms and line plots Formatting charts Best Practices Hints and Tips This section will go through some best practice considerations that should be adopted of you are applying Python in a business context.