Learn Finnish in Finland

  Finland

Helsinki

Dates: Every monday.

Description: Live and study with your own private teacher! A unique way to learn a language, studying and living in the home of your own personal teacher! By living and studying in your own personal teacher's home, you live in the language and you can't avoid learning. As soon as the student wakes each morning, the lesson begins, from chatting over breakfast to the end of the day, just relaxing and watching TV, the language spoken is the language you are studying. Aside from the structured tuition, all conversations, social activities are in the local language and your teacher will guide you and correct mistakes throughout the day. This is a full language immersion approach, which makes this method very effective and gives the student a true insight into the language and lifestyle.

Program Overview:
We offer a choice of 15, 20 or 25 hours of personal teaching per week- for as many weeks as you wish in the teacher's home. Your teacher is concerned only with your language problems and difficulties and can teach at your learning speed - because you are the only student! If you prefer a two student formula, this is available so that friends or relatives are not separated and can learn together - although better results are obtained if they are placed with different families. Given sufficient notice, we can also place the student with a teacher who has a very specialized vocabulary with technical terms if the student requires this. We also offer a Business & Specialized Vocabulary Program, as we have teachers with knowledge of medicine, engineering, law, accountancy etc. This can be arranged provided that we have at least two months notice for these special requests. Our programs are suitable for any age of student and all levels of language skills, even for students with very little previous knowledge of their chosen language. The very young can benefit from being in a home environment and are supervised according to their parents' wishes by our teachers and regional organizers. Teenagers of both sexes sometimes need a firm hand and no one is better qualified to give this than our experienced teachers who are accustomed to supervising adolescents of all ages and temperaments. 'Living in a teacher's home' is completely different from a homestead with an ordinary family, because younger students with us are in the hands of professionals, not amateurs. Students will live the normal life of the teacher's family and will benefit from at least one excursion per week, chosen by the teacher, which is included in the program price. If a student requires specific activities, they should book a program of activities, which consist of excursions, sports, or cultural activities with an adult member of the host family. These charges are the same as the teaching rate students can therefore substitute one hour of activities for each hour of lessons provided that this is arranged at time of enrollment.

Start dates and Additional options:
Since you are an individual student receiving individual tuition you can may choose the dates, which suit you best. All programs include the Sunday evening accommodation before the language tuition starts on the Monday morning. Additional options such as airport transfers, accommodation with a private bathroom, accommodation only and cultural activities, excursions and sport events can be arranged for an additional cost.

Highlights: We will match the student's needs exactly to the appropriate teacher-if, for example, you have a requirement for a foreign language with a bias towards the jargon of a particular profession. Given sufficient notice, we can also place the student with a teacher who has similar leisure interests. We actually consider the choice of family to be more important than a specific town or region and we will suggest another area, if there is no compatible family in the region that the student has requested.
We offer many different locations across the country.

Cost in US$: Varies depending on length of program.

Experience Required: no

Participants Travel to Finland Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application