Cactus is an award-winning company and one of the world's leading providers of language travel abroad and tailor-made language training. Established in 1998 in Brighton's North Laine (See Map), we are proud to offer language courses in over 25 languages, and in some 45 countries and 150 destinations, worldwide.

Autumn 2007 saw the opening of our North America office in Manhattan, New York, where we are excited to offer evening language courses as well as our long-established range of language courses worldwide and tailor-made language training.

At Cactus we are passionate about languages and lifelong learning and, as well as speaking some 12 languages between us, have personally visited all the locations we send our clients - often taking the language courses ourselves! This means we are consistently able to offer you, our clients, the highest levels of customer service, good value and enjoyment. And, unlike our competitors, there are no hidden costs as all registration fees & course materials are included in our prices.

Don't forget our dedicated team of linguists and travellers are always at the end of the phone to help and advise. For now we'll leave you to sit back and enjoy the website, and look forward to sharing our passion with you soon.

www.cactuslanguagetraining.com
Established in 2001, the Cactus business training arm organises tailor-made language courses for corporate, private and public sector customers throughout the UK and abroad. Clients to date include TESCO, London 2012, Sterling Relocation and Kimberley-Clark. The management team excel in their expertise and experience and all trainers are highly qualified, native speakers.

www.cactustefl.com
Established in 2002, our Cactus TEFL service handles admissions for internationally recognised TEFL qualifications for experienced teachers, first-timers, teachers of other languages and non-native teachers of English.

www.languagecoursesuk.co.uk
Language Courses UK is our specialist site for foreign language courses within the UK. We offer 10-week part-time group evening courses, daytime courses and weekend courses. Courses are available in many locations and languages across London and in major locations across the UK including Brighton, Bristol, Canterbury, Edinburgh, Exeter, Oxford and Manchester. New locations and courses are always in the pipeline as we respond to demand.

www.languagecoursesnewyork.com
Language courses New York is our specialist site for foreign language courses in North America. At present we offer language courses in New York, Vancouver and San Francisco; new courses and locations are continually being added.

www.volunteers-abroad.com
Volunteers Abroad provides unique travel and work experiences to people of all ages and backgrounds. We offer volunteer placements all over the world, including Latin America, Asia and Africa, and in various fields ranging from social work to education, healthcare and the environment. For our specialist programmes that combine language learning with a volunteer placement please visit our Language & Volunteer programmes.

www.schoolgroupsabroad.com
School Groups Abroad is our specialist site for overseas school group travel and is aimed at parents, teachers and group leaders. It combines our educational expertise with our our desire to encourage language learning among students in fun, international environments.

A good question that many of you may, and do, ask...

First, and most importantly, languages (which are our speciality) are like cacti: prickly on the outside and juicy on the inside. People are often put off learning a language because they think it will be too difficult. But as we demonstrated at one of our shows, where we gave thousands of people the chance to try some edible cactus, they were sceptical before tasting and amazed afterwards at how delicious it was. The same goes for languages: easier than they may initially appear.

Any of you who have learnt another language will know this feeling: after going through days or weeks of thinking you will never be able to understand or make yourself understood, you suddenly get to that level where you are communicating in another language and another culture and experiencing things that do not exist in your own language.

Secondly, even in our early days as Travel Santa Fe (our former trading name), we always had a cactus as a logo so decided keep up our old traditions...

And thirdly, love it or hate it, Cactus is simply a great name, and a word understandable in many languages. Why not try for yourself: learn a language & TASTE THE CACTUS!