Help To Create An English Speaking Environment In Germany
English Village Work Exchange In Germany
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If you have spent the past week talking English but paying for your meals and accommodation, then I’m afraid to say you are doing something wrong. There are places in this world where we can do what we do all day anyway and people will feed us and give us a free bed to sleep in.
In Germany, these people are called Englischhausen and they spend much of their time creating English speaking villages where students can immerse themselves in our vocabulary and idioms.
The English village is a total immersion teaching technique popularised over 20 years ago in Spain. The concept has since spread around Europe, transplanting little pieces of the English speaking world to country hotels on the continent complete with a temporary populace of native English speakers, usually called ‘Anglos’.
Anglos
Anglos have one task only: to talk, and keep talking, in English only. In return for rabbiting all day, volunteers get meals and accommodation for the duration of the six day course. German professionals are lured to the Black Forest and forced to listen to English, Welsh, Irish, Americans, Kiwis and other native speakers of English. Unable to escape English vocabulary and idioms for a full six days the students are able to improve their English listening, understanding and conversational proficiency.
Previous volunteers have even taught their students how to drink scotch, all on someone else’s dime. Nicely done that volunteer; thinking up that idea. Should there be a demand for it, I’m prepared to demonstrate how to drink ten pints of beer, throw up in an alleyway and verbally harangue a shop window display.
To qualify as a volunteer, potential ‘Anglos’ should be native English speakers, over 22, with enough life and career experiences to keep talking for up to 16 hours a day. German speakers are generally unwelcome to volunteer but Englischhausen do look to mix up their programmes with volunteers from a varied range of backgrounds, accents and age groups.
More information can be found at www.englischhausen.de/volunteers-english.html. Applications are managed by their partner company www.volunteerspuebloingles.com.
More cheap places to volunteer around the world can be found in our Free or Cheap Volunteering pages.
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