Welcome to the opportunity to widen your horizons!
The John Speak Languages Scholarship can provide you with complementary funding to assist you to travel overseas to study a language.
Case Studies
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Case Study: Grace Dawson, Germany 2024 – 2025
Hamburg has become more of a home to me than I could ever have imagined. Reflecting on the past year…
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Case Study: Bryony Heaviside – La Belle Province 2024-2025
My time in Quebec, Canada, has finally come to an end. After spending a few weeks back in the UK,…
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Lauren Maslin: Case Study – Land of the Morning Calm: South Korea 2024 – 2025
I chose to go to South Korea because I was fascinated by its history and very different culture than my…
Monthly Reports
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The weekend of 'one belt, one road': Gavin Vine – China, May 2017
一带一路的那一周末 这周末中国举行了‘一带一路’的论坛,世界上各地的元首都来北京参加。‘一带一路’是中国和别的国家合作发展和倡议的理念,通过这个理念中国政府旨在和别的国家创建密切的贸易关系。因为这个论坛很重要,所以这周末北京经历了一些变化。第一个变化是北京大部分的酒吧和夜店被警察关闭了,连一些便利店也关们了。对于警察为什这样做了,我也不太清楚。我觉得这样的情况很好得证明了关于在中国生活的一个事实 – 你偶尔会碰到无缘无故的变化。但是,另一个跟论坛相关的比较积极的变化是我们都有机会享受‘一带一路蓝’- 没有雾霾的蓝天。在北京住了一年后,我发现每当中国举行很重要的会议的时候,所有的空气污染都神奇地消失。现在我和朋友们都很期待中国的每一个大会议! ENGLISH: The weekend of the ‘One belt, one road’ forum This weekend China hosted the…
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Lunch invitation: Anam Rahman, China – May 2017
我在中国住了4个月。上周,我第一次被中国人邀请吃午餐。我的学生多祖父母邀请我吃午餐。最近,我不吃中国的食物因为我试着吃健康的食物。我的学生叫Lucy。那是她的英文名字。我不知道她的中文名字。她的祖父母没有英文名字。这顿午餐很有趣。 wǒ zài zhōng guó zhù le sì ge yuè. shàng zhōu, wǒ dì yī cì beì zhōng guó rén…
