Why travel with SíC?

The first reason to take a language trip is obviously to learn a new language. Languages can help you in every situation of your life: If you are looking for a job, you can impress with your conversational skills, you can read international research papers while at Uni, you’ll be able to understand the restaurant’s menu on your holidays abroad and you’ll be perfectly prepared to work with international colleagues. Several studies have also shown that learning a language provides several benefits for our brain, such as improved memory, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, enhanced concentration, ability to multitask, and better listening skills. Moreover, Spanish and English are two of the most spoken and culturally influential languages in the world!

Motivation is very important while learning. At school, a lot of students tend to see classes more as a burden than fun, they might sometimes struggle to learn a new language and fail to see language learning as a chance. A language trip on the other hand offers a great atmosphere for learning. Because it combines lessons with holidays, there will be time for you to relax! Having fun makes learning easier. A language trip is a great way to explore a bit of the world. Most of the people will only travel inside their country or confort zone, and even if they do decide to come out, they will mostly choose the popular and overexploted touristic destinations. With us you will get to explore most beautiful and rewarding places you never thought about before, come to the north of Spain by the hand of our expert advice and YOU WILL want to ome back.

Travelling abroad and communicating with locals or other students like you also means that you’ll meet all sorts of new people from all around the world. You’ll find that making friends in your class is indeed very easy: all of you are new and don’t really master the language so you’ll help each other out and bond through a similar learning experience. And despite of the short amount of time students spend together, they often keep in touch and visit each other long after their language trip! Travelling abroad will inevitably make you discover not only a new language but another culture as well. Your respect and tolerance will improve through a better understanding for other people’s lifestyle and life choices. While living with us, you’ll interact with the locals and learn about the rich Spanish culture, but in class, you will be also surrounded by lots of different cultures from the different classmates.

A language trip is a very personal experience. As found out in our language sustainability study, people usually travel alone on a language trip. Meaning that you’ll be completely isolated from your usual surroundings and will experience, a new language, new people and a new culture. Leaving your comfort zone and everything you know helps you discover yourself and often brings the language learners to question their own self and world view. Spending some time abroad through a language trip can offer you a broader view of world. Trying to communicate in a foreign language will be challenging, but it will be a good training for you to become more and more confident with daily task like grocery shopping or buying stamps at the post. These experiences will make you more independent on your travel.

One does not often reflect much about their own language, but translating, learning vocabulary and grammar will get you automatically comparing it with the new one you are learning. You notice how nicely resourceful your own mother tongue is: each language has untranslatable words that express something very particular.The German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said „Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.“ (Those who don’t know other languages, don’t know their own.“)

While going on our language trip, you’ll also be able to observe and participate in many different activities like water sports, cooking or cultural events and daytrips. Maybe while doing so you might actually discover a new hobby! If not we can at least guarantee you that you will have fun! At the end of your language course you will get a certificate which will declare the language level you have achieved according to European standards. This will be a written official proof of the skills you have learnt. It will be very valuable and useful to you when sending your resume around for job applications.