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| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4385 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes  Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 1 of 9 08 February 2015 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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It seems that I will finally have some months off since I am just about to get my degree . I would like to
take advantage of that for an immersion stay in Germany . But how ? What could be a good method to go about doing that ? I am not so convinced that a language course would be the best option , plus they often tend to be quite expensive, nor I intend to go do the dishwasher or similar jobs. I would like to be given some ideas, thanks . 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4231 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 2 of 9 08 February 2015 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Au Pair
that might involve dishwashing, though) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4530 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 3 of 9 08 February 2015 at 3:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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It might be worth considering where in Germany you want to do your stay. I live in Berlin: It's a great city, but perhaps not great for immersion, as there are so many foreigners here, and people are pretty used to speaking English.
Some cities (other than Berlin) in the former East might work a lot better. Depending when you come you could even aim for a Ostsee holiday town and learn German while enjoying the beach. Alternatively Leipzig (aka Hype-zig) is a meant to be really cool, and has a nice university town atmosphere. Erfurt is also meant to be really nice, but I've never been there. The Pediga shit in Dresden has put me off the town, but that's probably a bit unfair. I am sure that there are lots of smaller towns in the North also worth considering. Edited by patrickwilken on 08 February 2015 at 3:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4385 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 4 of 9 08 February 2015 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I fear I am not the best babysitter and houseman you can get :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4096 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 5 of 9 08 February 2015 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Would you consider volunteering at a farm? (WWOOF)
If you don't want to be on a farm, why not Google volunteer opportunities somewhere you'd like to go? Or maybe you like meeting new people? If so, CouchSurfing and similar sites offer you a lot of opportunities for getting around, meeting new people, speaking German all over the place. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4385 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 6 of 9 09 February 2015 at 8:47am | IP Logged | ||
This seems to be a good idea. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4485 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 7 of 9 14 February 2015 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you can hack it, why not consider learning French by joining the French Foreign Legion? Not only will you
without doubt learn French really, really fast, you'll be surrounded by people from all over the world. And, you're going to learn a whole bunch of really cool stuff like shooting guns, surviving in the desserrt and other soldierly stuff. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4530 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 8 of 9 14 February 2015 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | ||
A brother of a friend tried that and ended up deserting and now can never re-enter France. Edited by patrickwilken on 14 February 2015 at 4:26pm 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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