ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Where to Go and How to Get There

One of the most important decisions you have to make regarding your language practice is where you would like to go. The only requirement is that it is an English-speaking country and an English-speaking community within that (a Zulu-speaking community in South Africa wouldn't do). Different countries have vastly differing requirements with regard to visas and work permits and the like, and although the information below applies in 1998 it should be checked with the relevant embassy in good time before you go. Students from this department have been doing their language practice in different parts of the world for several years by now. You can read their language practice reports in the Department's Coffee Room for ideas on places to go to and things to do. You might want to go to Great Britain or Ireland, or perhaps The United States. Canada sounds like an exiting place, as well, or why not go as far as you can and find yourself in Australia or New Zealand
 
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