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Jessica Long 8 weeks Portuguese course/ Lisbon I expected to be able to come home having a basic level of conversation and grammar. In general, I hoped for clean, friendly accommodation and welcoming, patient staff at the language school. The experience far exceeded my expectations I came home having a high intermediate level of Portuguese; […]

Nicola Berkin 6 weeks Portuguese course I expected to be challenged as it was so long since I had done Portuguese at university. I expected to do one topic of grammar a day (similar to university) and I expected the teachers to be very helpful and friendly. Generally my expectations were met. I was certainly […]

I cannot recommend the school in Beijing highly enough. I have been here for nearly seven months now and I am in no doubt that coming to Beijing was probably one of the best decisions I have ever made! So much do that I have now agreed to work in Beijing for the foreseeable future! […]

I thought it would be large classes, wasn’t expecting to make real friends and learn as much as I did. I learnt than I had expected to learn, the classes were small, the teachers taught in English and it was less formal and more fun than I had thought. I enjoyed the first week but […]

Suzi Taylor 2 weeks in Berlin Standard Course My expectations were far surpassed! If I’m honest, I expected to refresh my German, mainly through speaking, to do some grammar but no literature and to be taught in quite a large group.  I also expected some organised (probably boring) afternoon activities. The classes were far better […]

Alastair Holt 12 wks in Berlin German Languages for Life course I am training to become a solicitor in London I thought it would be a great idea to learn German in Germany during my Gap Year to help my career, as I believed it would be a fantastic experience ; one that would broaden my […]

Jenny Ashford 1 week German course in Berlin Standard Course  I was hoping to learn some basics and make some friends in the class to spend time with sightseeing/socialising when not in class.  My trip really exceeded by expectations  : ) The lessons were brilliant, much better than German language lessons I remember from Secondary […]

James Fraser 4 weeks in Berlin Standard Course As I was an absolute beginner, I was looking forward to a challenging, perhaps difficult, but interesting course, to meet students from different cultures and backgrounds also to visit many areas within the locality. It was all good! The German language course was very interesting, difficult at […]

Gemma Dutton 2 weeks in Berlin Intensive Course I was very nervous about not understanding anything and daunted at spending so much time with strangers!  Linguistically I expected to struggle at first, but hoped to see some real improvement by the end.  On a totally paranoid level I just hoped that the school really existed […]

George Chapman 8 weeks in Berlin (extended to 16) Languages for Life course Having never embarked on such a course I had no real expectations other than that presented to me by CESA Languages, via the website, brochure etc.  From this I had an idea in my mind of a German language school, where we’d […]