IH Bristol was founded in 1987 as The Language Project by Val, while studying for her PhD, and It joined the International House global network of affiliated language schools in 2009. Over the course of the years it expanded into two beautiful period buildings in the Clifton distric and diversified into teacher training, exams, junior summer – and winter – school and foreign languages. The school teachers are all qualified teachers of English as a foreign language. They all take part in an ongoing programme of teacher development. This means they are always learning the latest methods to ensure language-learning success. The school has special methods to help you learn English without stress. The most important thing is to help you feel confident about using the English you learn. And It has lots of techniques to achieve this. It focus on natural English, the language spoken by ordinary people everyday. The teaching is in phrases, so students can feel they are communicating in the same way as a native English speaker. It encourage students to learn a lot of vocabulary through various methods. The school has a great location in Clifton, in the cultural and social heartland of Clifton, in amongst the university buildings and students and on the doorstep of countless coffee shops, eateries, shops, pubs and buildings as iconic as the Wills Memorial Building, the Bristol Museum, the Victoria Rooms, Cabot Tower and the Royal West of England Academy.