Dublin
Antonio, Italy
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These last years I’ve got in touch with more and more foreigners and I see that English learnt on the road presents some limits. For example, although your professional skills are good, you may have difficulties in asserting your credibility. We have to deal with a not really exciting collective image of our Country, we are seen as nice, funny people, but not always with a suitable competence level. Many times we Italians have an even higher competence than our colleagues from Countries like Germany or France, still we have to overcome our language difficulty if we want our reasons to be correctly understood. Linguaenglish helped me to find a cheap but excellent school in Dublin. I wanted a full immersion with mother tongue teachers prone to correct me in pronunciation and above all in sentence construction – learning on the road is not much of help for the latter. Well, at my age it was a bit like getting back to university. And that was the playful side of my experience: I came home with many new friends on Facebook – Spanish, Irish, Brasilian, Czech, Polish and of course Italian people. I experienced the great Irish hospitality and met lovely people. We spoke about Frank Mc Curt, Bono and Sinéad O’Connor and drank a lot of Guinness. The lessons went by with much talking while grammar remained in the background. I had two young but well prepared and very generous teachers. It was often my tiredness that put an end to discussions, not the clock. In short, a study holiday experience I recommend to everybody. |