aude
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Post by aude on Aug 30, 2007 15:52:58 GMT -5
It just occurred to me that some of you might be interested in Concordia Language Villages for yourself or your children. It's a language immersion program located in Minnesota, and they offer weeks and weekend programs for adults throughout the school year, as well as extensive programs during the summer for children. They have camps for lots of languages. My children attended the French immersion camp, Lac du Bois, for a few weeks every summer for years. (They went all the way from sticky hot Georgia to beautiful cool Northern Minnesota every summer to camp, and loved it!) They especially loved a program called Voyageur, where high-school age students canoe through the lakes in Northern Minnesota/Canada for a couple of weeks in birch-bark canoes, camping out, and re-tracing the routes of the French voyageurs. It is truly a fabulous program and not only gave them a huge boost in their acquisition of French, but also gave them a much wider view of the world as they made friends from Cameroon, France, Quebec, Cote d'Ivoire, and other places. Here's the website if anyone's interested. clvweb.cord.edu/prweb/
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Post by Anne on Aug 31, 2007 7:08:03 GMT -5
Thank you for the link Aude, I've studied the website . Actually, I am looking for such camps for my kids (to improve their English, not French of course), so I was interested in reading about these "Hometown" USA and Europe camps . BTW, are you writing that there are actually French kids attending the Voyageur program too ?
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Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Aug 31, 2007 9:09:16 GMT -5
What a great idea! Thanks for the link.
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aude
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Post by aude on Aug 31, 2007 13:36:05 GMT -5
Hi Anne,
No, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that French children were campers. The French camp hires lots of native French speakers who are on the staff, and many of them are young people from France and other francophone countries. It's a great opportunity for them to live in the U.S. for a summer. As high school students, my teenagers became friends with several of them. Later, when my daughter studied in France she was able to stay in touch with them. Now she will be getting married soon, and friends from Montreal, Montpelier, Lyon and Paris are all coming to her wedding. My son made friends, too, but he's not as good at staying in touch with them.
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Post by Anne on Sept 1, 2007 2:47:50 GMT -5
Well, if anyone else has recommendations about such camps in English for foreign teenagers ...
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Post by sistereurope on Sept 1, 2007 9:01:08 GMT -5
Anne, Here are a few resources for you to check out whether there are camps for teens who want to learn English: The American Camp Association might have some referrals: www.acacamps.org/Also, I work for the Baltimore City Public Schools. Teachers who teach English as a second language are called ESOL teachers (English for Speakers of Other Languages). Perhaps thiis organization could also recommend a reputable program: www.tesol.org/s_tesol/index.asp It's for ESOL teachers... Now, *I* need a summer camp for "FSOL" adults! ;D
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Post by Anne on Sept 2, 2007 1:09:56 GMT -5
Thank you for your research Sister . ESOL teachers don't seem to have any camp, but the ACAcamps has so many of them ! I am quite at a loss ... As far as adults FSOL camps are concerned, I can always lend you my backyard ... ;D
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Post by sistereurope on Sept 3, 2007 8:56:51 GMT -5
Thanks Anne - I'll even bring my own tent!!
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Post by muffya on Sept 4, 2007 11:02:23 GMT -5
When I was a teen, I attended a boarding school for the summer outside London for Shakespeare, but most of the kids were there for the English as a second language classes. TASIS, or The American School in Switzerland offers great classes. Their reputation is still great after all these years! In fact, my roomate there was from Alsace!
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Post by Anne on Sept 4, 2007 11:50:42 GMT -5
Many thanks for the tip, muffya
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