{"id":2275,"date":"2010-02-03T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:40:42","slug":"extreme-language-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Extreme&#8217; language exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Language exchange trips have been popular for many years, but usually involve spending only a few weeks in a foreign country. For example, I took part in a language exchange with a French lad while at school which involved me spending three weeks with his family in France, and him spending three weeks in the UK with my family. I also spent two weeks with a family in Germany, and a month with a family in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/education\/education-news\/extreme-language-exchanges-grow-in-popularity-1887252.html\">The Independent<\/a>, the latest trend is for children between 9 and 13 to spend six months in a foreign country, staying with a family and going to a local school. Even if they don&#8217;t know the local language at all at first, they&#8217;re usually fluent in it after six months.<\/p>\n<p>The exchanges discussed in the article were arranged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unse.org\/en\/en-famille-international\">En Famille International<\/a>, a French company set up in 1978, and are available in Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain and the UK. One perennial problem they have is a lack of English-speaking families willing to participate in the exchanges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language exchange trips have been popular for many years, but usually involve spending only a few weeks in a foreign country. For example, I took part in a language exchange with a French lad while at school which involved me spending three weeks with his family in France, and him spending three weeks in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}