I love these courses and actually look forward to them! They are online but you genuinely develop friendship with the teacher and other participants. Because they are online and we can join from all over UK (and abroad), we can carry on even to the more advanced levels. Even before covid, I had to stop my in-person Portuguese classes with Cactus just because there were not enough people who wanted to carry on into Intermediate levels at my location. But since we are now online, there is a group of us from all over who want to carry on semester after semester and although we did not meet in person, we feel like we know each other. Finally, our teacher, Ana is amazing! She genuinely cares whether we understand the material, goes over grammar with angelic patience (I mean it) and genuinely goes above and beyond for us, pointing to further reading, immersing us in spoken, written and even sung language!