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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5019 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 1 of 4 10 July 2012 at 9:04pm | IP Logged |
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As I am enjoying probably the last long summer holidays for a long time, I might go
somewhere for a bit of immersion. I do not want to wash the dishes somewhere in hope I might learn the language meanwhile, I would prefer to go for an intensive conversational course of either level B2/C1 French or B1/B2 Spanish or B1 German which are levels I hope to be at in late August/early September. I would like to spend two weeks (ideally two weeks, in reality probably less, depends on the offers and prices) in the country where the language is spoken. There are so many language schools searchable through google that it is hard to choose from so I would love to hear your references. What I would like: -staying in a family. -a language school with good quality teachers, especially such who are able to manage a good conversational course and really help me widen my speaking abilities -reasonable number of people in a class -a place wherefrom I can go for trips to interesting places -reasonable price. I know it is not a cheap thing to go somewhere like this, I have some money and could ask my family for support (an early birthday present) but still, some of the prices are outrageous. -last and "least" important- the sea. So, if you have any tip, thanks a lot in advance for it. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4620 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 2 of 4 19 July 2012 at 8:11pm | IP Logged |
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Whenever I have done an immersion program I have always found that the best value for my
money was at a (public) University. ie. French at the Universite du Quebec and Spanish at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Of course, from Europe, the added flight cost might not make North America an inexpensive option for you, but I assume that some European universities might offer summer immersion programs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5019 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3 of 4 19 July 2012 at 10:36pm | IP Logged |
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Actually not much, from what I have found. They do have some and for free (you just pay
the other costs and the tuition is free) based on some bilateral agreements but there are only few places and there are often restrictions (such as only those who study the language at university or only future teachers of the language) :-( Of course, I thought of studying something else in the language but 1.can't be done during summer for obvious reasons 2.can't be done without becoming a regular student (getting through the selection, moving to the country to study,...) which is something really different. There is such a summer language school of Czech here in Prague, organised by the Charles University but I have found no such thing elsewhere. I may have just searched badly, if you know of anything like that, please tell me. Quebec and Mexico are unfortunately too far and expensive to get there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5219 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 4 20 July 2012 at 4:40am | IP Logged |
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Cavesa, I don't know what kind of price range you're looking at, but I've posted a few notes on a programme I
attended in Paris (and also mentioned a couple of others), in this thread (Starting with post #2): http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=22755&PN=1&TPN=1#261395 Please copy and paste, removing any spaces inserted by the forum software. The ICP has doesn't have anything shorter than one-month, but l'Institut Parisien and France Langue both have weekly options; and France Langue also has second location in Nice. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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