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Goals of the program:

• Increase proficiency in the target language  (classes, host family, community)

  • ​Speaking, reading, writing, listening

• Emphasis cultural awareness, connections, and diversity.

  • ​Food, shopping, festivals, customs, traditions, concerts, host family.

• Acquire life skills

  • ​Travel, budgeting money-exchange rate, problem solving, environment

• Connect interdisciplinary

  • ​Art, history, literature, architecture, music

• Collaborate and adapt

  • ​Customs and lifestyles with host family

• ​Seal of Bi literacy- is an award given  in recognition of students who have studied and attained proficiency in two or more languages by high school graduation.

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Why now and not later?  Benefits for teenagers:

• Develops more grey matter and cognitive patterns in their brain.

• Perform better on ACT & SAT scores

• Post-puberty our aptitude for second language acquisition is reduced.

• Boost cross cultural understanding and empathy.

• Ability to adapt quicker

• Students under the age of 18 pay less, or enter free at most museums and historical buildings in Europe.

• Similar programs charge much more & offer less.

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