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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El pueblo de los pitufos; Nathan Randerson, Spain, September 2016
Juzcar – El pueblo de los pitufos Juzcar se situó en el sur de España al lado de Ronda, se…
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The days leading up to my departure for Beijing – Charlotte McGarry, September 2016
搬到中国前几天 我搬到中国的前一周忙得不得了。我星期三从国外旅行回来了英国,星期六打算上飞机到中国。。。。但是我还没拿到签证,还没把英镑兑换成人民币,还没装行李等等。起初,我暗自想 ‘需要办好的事这么多,上飞机前能处理完才怪呢!’。那三天我忙得要命,一天到晚都跑来跑去!幸亏我办好所有的手续 – 事情进展顺利。 上飞机的前夜,我住在朋友那里, 她也去北京,我们刚好坐同一班的飞机。说来也奇怪,我们的空座紧挨着!在飞机上,我用中文点餐。起初, 我担心我已经把所学的汉语都忘了,但我一开口说话 ,全都想起来。我告诉空中小姐我要练习中文,所以他只用中文跟我说-真是很有用! 星期六上午飞机在北京机场着陆了。人们常说北京的天气污染很严重所以我以为北京的天空一直是灰色的。出乎我的意料, 我到北京的那一天,天空却是纯净蓝色的,比我老家(迪拜)好得多!我对北京的最初影响很不错! ENGLISH: The weeks before my departure to China were…
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Flüchtlinge: alles beim Alten – Greg Palmer,Berlin, September 2016
Flüchtlinge: alles beim Alten Der Sommer geht seinem Ende zu. Die Scharen von Touristen werden langsam durch Studenten und Berliner…
