Hi,
Can anybody help please? I am often asked how and where German pupils can go and stay in the UK for a period in order to improve their English.
As I am an older member of the site I cannot rely on my relatives in UK(older variety) to take them in any more.
There was something with a link on this site a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I have forgotten (signs of age!) it and do not know how to access the archives.
Regards from John
Hi Harry, eh, John,
you don’t happen to mean http://www.afs.org, do you?
It’s an organisation whose webpage I came across by pure fluke, but I seem to remember that someone mentioned it here recently. I could be mistaken of course…
Using the archive is really easy, by the way - the only problem is that you can only search by title of a posting or thread, not by content. And what do we know the title may have been…
(you don’t need to get the exact title; it searches for words IN the title only, I’m trying to say).
I’m of the belief that someone who isn’t gonna attend a school abroad for a term, but just wants to do a language course for a couple of weeks, may be better off arranging that with a language school here, who sends people there. It means the course is designed with the students’ own skills in mind, and ALL the students in the class having the same native language means they all have the same concerns, and the same difficulties with the same grammatical issues etc.
Attending a language school with a ‚mixed‘ class I would more likely recommend to someone working as an au pair or similar. If it’s meant to be a short term course, you might as well get the best out of it.
While it’s fun having a mixed class, and while it MAY prevent you from speaking your native language while you’re there, it often means that the other students have such different problems with the language that in a short-term course the time isnt really being used ‚efficiently‘.
Well, it’s a matter of opinion, and really I like both class settings.
It depends what you want, how long you are staying, and whether you want it all arranged (accommodation etc), or don’t mind piecing it together yourself…
Gruss, isabel
Hi Isabel,
Thanks for the link which I will pass on. I think going on a course in UK with a group of Germans often means that they meet in their free time and speak German which defeats the object of the visit.
I have remembered that there used to be an organisation in London called the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges. Maybe if I can track them down through the Net they might be of help.
Thanks again!
John ( By the way,Harry was an aborigine who dropped his trousers to protest at the Queen’s visit to Australia many moons ago and was given this name by the Press! As I am not a royalist, I often use it as a pseudonym!)
John ( By the way,Harry was an aborigine who dropped his
trousers to protest at the Queen’s visit to Australia many
moons ago and was given this name by the Press! As I am not a
royalist, I often use it as a pseudonym!)
I liked your nick even without this info - but now I like it even better!
Cheers, iz.