We would like to thank One Global and Web-Translations for their help and assistance over recent months in providing the Trust with excellent translation services. Both these companies have assisted the John Speak Trust on numerous occasions with the translation of our language students monthly reports. One Global – helping…
Daisy Wright – ¡Pura vida!: Costa Rica, August 2022
Buenos días! Soy Daisy y soy del norte de Inglaterra. Estudio el Español y el Árabe en la Universidad de Cambridge y gracias a mi carrera de idiomas tengo que pasar mi tercer año de universidad afuera para que mejore mi habilidad de lenguas. Entonces, para el primer parte de…
Case Study: Lucy Cooper, Le Mans, France 2022
As part of my undergraduate degree in French and Spanish, I have spent the last six months working in Le Mans, France in order to improve my French language skills. During this time, I have taught English to ages 7-24, allowing me to gain a real insight into the…
Case Study: Olivia Pettitt, Madrid, Spain – 2019-2020
In July 2019 I left the UK to begin my placement year at BT in Madrid as part of my Languages and International Business degree. Although briefly interrupted by the lockdown in March where I went back to the UK to work from home for a while, I was able…
Many congratulations to our recent lucky applicants on receiving John Speak Trust Scholarships to assist your study abroad programmes. Our new students will be studying in: Geneva Germany Tokyo Austria Costa Rica Granada Well done on receiving John Speak Trust Scholarships. We hope you enjoy your time abroad and good luck!…
Now back in London, I am able to fully reflect upon my time abroad in Sevilla. Over the 9 months, I grew a great deal both as a person as well as academically. I found myself in so many new situations and even lived through the global pandemic from a…
I’ve been concentrating on making sure I do all the things I wanted to do this year. I made goals of things I wanted to achieve. It’s so easy to get lost with what’s going on and forget to concentrate on the things important to you. My main goal was…
My last month in Brazil. That was the plan anyway but things change. I’ve decided to continue on in Brazil due to coronavirus as the laws on tourist visas have been relaxed and also I wanted to stay and do all of the things I’d originally planned to do. My…
As part of my undergraduate degree in Chinese Studies, I spent the last academic year abroad, initially in Beijing at Peking University. The course in Beijing covered a broad range of areas, from newspaper reading and 20th century literature, to more advanced speaking classes and classical Chinese. Upon the outbreak…
Case Study: Sandy Perkins – Beijing, China, 2019-2020
In September 2019 I landed in Beijing to begin 11 months of living in China. I had been awarded two Scholarships, a John Speak scholarship and a Confucius scholarship, and as part of the Confucius scholarship was enrolled in the Chinese Language Program at Beihang University in Beijing. While I…
