In addition to being an excellent study method, a study holiday can also be an important life experience
During this period, the teachers propose a study vacation abroad to be organized for this summer.
How to best organize your study holiday?
When choosing a language course abroad you make a choice that goes beyond the simple desire to learn a language. A study holiday abroad is an experience which, without exaggerating, changes the lives of many people and enriches the mind and spirit.
This is precisely the period in which reservations begin. To avoid making mistakes, what do you have to do?
Do it yourself or agency?
In the first case, you do everything yourself by organizing travel, accommodation and contacts with language schools. It is not an impossible task but it requires more effort. In this case, the advice is to ask for information from foreign tourism bodies present in Italy or from the Consulates. Much more comfortable are the study holidays organized by an agency, by large groups such as Ef (ef-italia-it) or Helkin (www.helkin.it) to smaller realities.
In this case it must always be remembered that the rights of package holidays sold by tour operators (including discounts for early bookers) apply, in the event of complaints or disservices. As for living room, you can choose college or family life. Being hosted in a family allows you to spend a little less and have more contact with daily life. But this also means accepting compromises and establishing a good relationship with the host family. To be hosted in a family you must be at least 14/15 years old, unless the families are in small provincial towns where there are no problems getting to school. There are no such problems in college.
When to start?
Before going to Worldwide to learn a language the better. But it must never be a forcing on the part of the parents. The first rule, therefore, is to talk to your children and understand if they are really ready for a study holiday. Of course, today, the age of the first experience is always lower and for travel abroad it starts from 10/11 years.
Not just English
THEEnglish it always remains the first language of the study holiday. Although there is always an interest in Spanish, German. In the first place of the destinations of 2017 there is always l'England (Including London) and theIreland. Demand for cheaper courses remains high a Malta. The demand for stays in Canada. While, some for Trump and some for costs, there are fewer demands for the United States. In general, however, there is a strong demand for study holidays and years of study abroad determined, unfortunately, also by the decreasing confidence of families in the fact that their children can find a job in Italy when they grow up.
Quality of the study holiday
Usually the study holiday lasts a couple of weeks and can be combined with many activities, from horse riding to football, from art to fashion, from design to theater. Not all offers are created equal. It is important to privilege the quality of the service, the assistance, the number of lessons and the presence of mother tongue teachers.
Beware of contracts
Before signing the contract ask for all possible information. If it is a family, for example, the number of members, the meals provided, the address and telephone number, the distance between the school and the host house, the means of transport.
Also inquire about the number of hours of lessons and all the sports or recreational activities of the college and the safety offered, especially for the little ones. If things are not what you have negotiated, try to resolve the matter on the spot by contacting the person in charge of the study holiday. In any case, obtain all the documentation possible for a possible dispute and request for compensation.
Those who love to travel will find great satisfaction in a study holiday abroad because in their free time they can visit the typical beauties of the place, the museums, the squares and the streets.
By alternating study with walks and guided tours, a study holiday abroad becomes one wonderful opportunity to visit new places.
Often we are so used to our daily life that we do not realize how much everything is really very relative. Relating to a nation, a region, a city, a family environment at times.
Habits, religion, customs, rites, culture. Everything changes a lot from one country to another and there is nothing more fascinating than discovering new points of view.
Having an experience abroad changes your life
We test ourselves in an unusual environment, where communication through another language certainly does not facilitate things, but above all one faces everything with one's own strength.
Manage yourself independently, especially if it is the first time you are away from your family, it helps to question oneself, to understand weaknesses and strengths and, above all, to grow up and return home more mature, with a not just more experience!
