 Language Immersion Programs are designed to provide second language instruction in the country of this language. Such programs use the method of teaching in which children and students of a foreign language are ‘immersed’ in this language and gain the first-hand experience of both the target language and the culture. The programs may differ a little by offering language immersion camps, summer immersion camps, language trips and the like courses for learners of a foreign language.
If you plan to travel abroad to improve your foreign language, live in a family or with other foreign students, you should use some tips to maximally benefit from the program. If you do not follow the common mistakes, you could substantially advance your foreign language competency in as little as two weeks. However, you may as well see no improvement if not taking into consideration important advice.
It is highly recommended to …
• Take the trip alone, since there will be no temptation to use your native language.
• Live in a host family, who do not have another foreign student from your native country. This way you ensure that you will be surrounded by your target language all the time.
• Have a personal tutor, who will be a native speaker. It is important that the person is friendly and knowledgeable. And, of course, you do not need a non-native speaker in a country of your target language.
• Speak only in the language you intend to improve / learn even with people who know your native language.
• Read local newspapers, listen to the radio and watch local or national television.
• Find a book in your foreign language, read it and write down all the unknown words you encounter on the flash cards.
• Make friends from the local population, and get involved in the local culture.
• Always have with you a pack of blank flash cards, on which you can write unknown words or ask somebody to write them for you if you are not proficient in spelling in your target language.
• Before going to sleep, translate all the words on the flash cards you wrote (some of them you will have to lay aside and ask your teacher to help you translate), then review them all the time throughout the next day.
• Practice perfect pronunciation.
• Always try to speak as well as local people; don’t be please just being understood.
• Figure out and try to use the most common phrases and words, which will make your speech nice.
Things you should never do:
1. Spend much time with the people from your country using your mother language. This is usually the main reason for the failed improvement of your foreign language, and thus, for your loosing time and money.
2. Speak a target language only during the classes in the morning, then turn to the language which is most convenient to you.
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