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Started by merithyn, August 07, 2012, 03:24:47 PM

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merithyn

August 07, 2012, 03:24:47 PM
My son is interested in going to Germany for his senior year in order to learn German better. I've found a number of programs, but have no idea which ones are the better options. Has anyone been a foreign exchange student or known anyone who has that might be able to shed some light on this for me?
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

garbon

#1
August 07, 2012, 03:25:54 PM
I'm guessing you mean as a high schooler?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Viking

#2
August 07, 2012, 03:28:09 PM
I went with AFS to Japan in high school. Went to Yamamoto's old high school. I was also an exchange student in German at university doing my Masters Project.

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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
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merithyn

#3
August 07, 2012, 03:28:40 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 07, 2012, 03:25:54 PM
I'm guessing you mean as a high schooler?

Yes.

Quote from: Viking on August 07, 2012, 03:28:09 PM
I went with AFS to Japan in high school. Went to Yamamoto's old high school.

What's AFS?
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

frunk

#4
August 07, 2012, 03:40:55 PM
I'm not familiar with any high school level exchange students to foreign countries, but I do know a couple who have come here.

I did a summer month in Germany in college to count as my German 3 credit.  It was run by my German prof, and it was a hell of a lot of fun even if I didn't learn that much more German.

Drakken

#5
August 07, 2012, 03:44:20 PM
Sorry, Fez left the building years ago.  :(

Good day. I said good day!

Zanza

#6
August 07, 2012, 03:50:25 PM Last Edit: August 07, 2012, 03:58:30 PM by Zanza
Quote from: merithyn on August 07, 2012, 03:28:40 PM
What's AFS?
American Field Service - they have a quite good reputation from what I know.

Some information on other programs:
http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/09__Language__Study__Exchange/03/02/__School.html

Viking

#7
August 07, 2012, 03:56:41 PM
Quote from: Viking on August 07, 2012, 03:28:09 PM
I went with AFS to Japan in high school. Went to Yamamoto's old high school.

What's AFS?
[/quote]

http://www.afs.org/

yes, very good reputation, operates around the world.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

garbon

#8
August 07, 2012, 04:08:58 PM
Is this suddenly the backroom?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Barrister

#9
August 07, 2012, 04:12:01 PM
You think that's too much?
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

merithyn

#10
August 07, 2012, 04:15:40 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 07, 2012, 04:12:01 PM
You think that's too much?

Yes, I do.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Barrister

#11
August 07, 2012, 04:16:39 PM
Post deleted. :ph34r:
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Richard Hakluyt

#12
August 07, 2012, 04:21:05 PM
One problem is that the Europeans are getting so good at speaking English that he may have difficulty practicing his German unless it is already very good  :hmm:

merithyn

#13
August 07, 2012, 04:21:50 PM
He's had four years of German.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

garbon

#14
August 07, 2012, 04:49:25 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on August 07, 2012, 04:21:05 PM
One problem is that the Europeans are getting so good at speaking English that he may have difficulty practicing his German unless it is already very good  :hmm:

That's true. I had 2 and I don't recall anyone even trying to speak to me in German...though he could just force the people he meets. :)
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
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