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Okay. So, we learn a language. We learn about the culture sometimes through our textbook, sometimes from the media and sometimes from nativev speakers.

But how can we be sure that what we're told is true? And how can we truely understand the differences?

That's where an exchange and homestay program comes in. I personaly just finshied a homestay in Okinawa Japan and I seriously believe that it's an oppertunity that everyone who studies another language should at least strive towards.

You not only get a chance to improve your language skills and make your speach patterns more native- but you get the chance to live another life and look at your life from another point of veiw.

Has anyone else here ever gotten to do an exchange or homestay?
Anyone planning to?

You can get scholarships...Mine was completly paid for.

My host mother was crying when I left, and I've kept a line of contact open since.

The majority of the students who go through the program aren't like that, there's a few horror stories, yeah... But we all know that those stories rarely represent the whole of the group.

I, actually, am going to Germany for a while to do a homestay with a family over the summer.

I am going through ISE, and the family stay will be in Rostock near the Baltic Sea.

I'd love to do a homestay to Spain.

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