Foreign student hosting
Just another WordPress.com weblogFinding a student pen pal abroad.
If you are interested in finding a student from abroad and exchanging ideas across Skype or by email, www.penpalamis.info is a brilliant site.
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89 registered host families – Great!
The list of host families continues to climb! www.xilfee.eu
Why we should encourage our children to love English
My 10-year-old daughter is studying Latin, French, Spanish and German. She has a natural ability to learn a language. This also applies to her English and she loves to act out parts of Shakespeare and has an amazing memory to remember the lines. She loves poetry and enjoys reciting to members of the family.
We have always encouraged her, we like her to speak nicely and articulately and speak up with her thoughts.
English is such a wonderful language with all its complexities and eccentricities and we should embrace it to the full.
Learning English – Getting it right
I was reading a note yesterday, sent to all members on a forum. It was in English. Just.
It was probably translated professionally but it took me three or four reads before I could understand what it meant. Even now, I’m not sure of the full implications.
It goes to show how complex language is. And how well you must understand the language you translate into.
Registering to become a host family in the UK
Want to become a host family in the UK or internationally? www.xilfee.eu is a brilliant site for host families to register free of charge. You can add photographs, a video and text and really make the profile your own.
Charge your own rates and make money rather than being beholden to being told what to charge.
Learning English – English words which sound the same
I have been thinking about words which sounds the same but are pronounced differently;
Here are some:-
which – witch
bye – by
here – hear
see – sea
to – two – too
How hard to learn English?
Go ahead and add your own to this list please!
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Register to become a host family in the UK
www.xilfee.eu now has 15 pages of host families registered on the site.
We are having great success with the case studies on the home page too.
You can become a host family almost anywhere in the world
Our site www.xilfee.eu is gaining new profiles on a steady basis.
If you want to become a host family or hometutor, consider building a profile to promote your services for free on our site.
Speaking a foreign language as a tourist
I went to The Tower of London last week. There were more foreign speaking tourists than English speakers.
Speak to them in English though, and most of them spoke enough English to hold a conversation.
Why are the English SO bad at learning foreign languages?
Find students to teach English to
The new front page is loaded, take a look: we have around 60 registered host families on board now.
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