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Written by the people who run the courses — what a week actually looks like, what to pack, how a host family is chosen, and what each of our destinations is like for a fourteen-year-old.
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The inverted seasons are the whole argument — a student can travel in the northern winter and arrive somewhere warm. Plus the islands, and the accent.
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Most of a fortnight's gain is lost within three months, and not because the learning was shallow. What to do in the first twelve weeks, and why accuracy may look worse.
5 August 20265 min read
From the arrivals hall to the first evening meal, then the placement test nobody should revise for — and why day four is when something changes.
5 August 20265 min read
A city where half the population was born somewhere else — which sounds as though it would dilute the English and does exactly the opposite.
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Students arrive able to discuss climate change and unable to order a coffee. The greetings that are not questions, the shop counter, and the host family table.
5 August 20265 min read
Early July, August or Easter are genuinely different trips — and the date that constrains everything is not the course's start. Plus the five things to tell us first.
5 August 20265 min read
Almost every student can write better English than they can speak. Six things that close that gap, none of which involve learning anything new.
5 August 20265 min read
Our longest course, and the one we most often talk families out of. Why three weeks matters, what a residence changes, and who should not come.
5 August 20265 min read
The question behind every other question. What is actually checked on every adult, who calls you and when, and the one thing we will not claim.
5 August 20265 min read
English in an English-speaking country that is not England — plus the thing about the accent nobody warns you about, and why nationality matters more here.
5 August 20265 min read
The five marks that make correct English read as translated English — the colon, the semicolon, the apostrophe, the comma and the dash — and the test for each.
5 August 20265 min read
Thirty phrasal verbs with up, the four jobs that little word is doing, and the one grammar point that decides whether you sound fluent or translated.
5 August 20266 min read
Our second office, and the quietest of the destinations — which is exactly why we recommend it for a first trip abroad more often than anywhere else.
5 August 20265 min read
Five or seven days, a small group, the landmarks in the morning while they are quiet — and the three famous things we deliberately do not do.
5 August 20265 min read
Four hours of English in the morning, the Quayside in the afternoon, a host family for dinner. What our largest course feels like from a Monday to a Sunday.
5 August 20266 min read
Three words used almost interchangeably by everyone selling them, and three quite different fortnights for your child. How to tell which one you are buying.
5 August 20265 min read
The three things every student forgets, the one thing they all overpack, and why the weather forecast is not the guide you want.
5 August 20265 min read
What the placement test is for, what happens on the first morning, and why arriving as a beginner is not the problem parents expect it to be.
5 August 20264 min read
The routes a short course can use, what the school provides, how early to start, and the one mistake that costs families their place.
5 August 20265 min read
Who is with the group at seven in the morning, at noon, and at ten at night — and what happens if a student feels unwell in a city they have never been to.
5 August 20266 min read
The two ways our students live, what each one is actually like, and the questions to ask yourself about a quiet fifteen-year-old rather than a confident one.
5 August 20265 min read
English lessons in the morning, a real city in the afternoon, and somebody responsible for your child at every hour in between. What a study holiday actually is.
5 August 20265 min read
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