<p>I know that the University of Virginia has some dorms where they are, for example, German oriented. Where you have to speak German there or something so you can be immersed in the language without actually having to leave the country.
Does anyone know of any schools with housing related to something like that?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>That sounds really cool. I'd like to know about this, too.</p>
<p>I believe Northwestern has such a thing.</p>
<p>Hmm thank you. I will look into that.</p>
<p>MIT has a few language houses (Spanish, German, and French), and you can choose to live there or to be a social member and come by for dinner and discussion. The website is [url=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/nh/%5Dhere%5B/url">http://web.mit.edu/nh/]here[/url</a>] -- the sites for the language houses are in the right-hand column.</p>
<p>Miami OH, I think.</p>
<p>I think Brown has like, themed frats or something... they said something about a Spanish house on the tour but I'm forgetting.</p>
<p>Wisconsin invented the idea and now has several.</p>
<p>French</a> House History</p>
<p>Amherst has a French/Spanish one, where you have to speak French or Spanish to live there. I think it sounds like a great idea.</p>
<p>They are actually very common at a lot of schools, though not all. Typically kids who live in these dorms are not freshmen however. And frankly, there is NOTHING like studying in the country of the language you are studying. That is how I learned my language and now 30 years later still get along pretty well: can read anything and speak with relative fluency. I didnt learn that from the other college kids I studied with..if anything, they were a hindrance with all their foibles and issues. I learned it the best being "in country" and being forced to learn the hard way. But you may have a different view and different opinion about that.</p>
<p>UCSD has an international dorm, where all kids who are studying abroad stay +UCSD kids if they choose.</p>
<p>Middlebury</p>
<p>Wesleyan has several language/international themed dorms. Connecticut College offers one as well.</p>
<p>Amherst also has a German house, and a Russian house.</p>
<p>You don't HAVE to speak the language though (nor for the French/Spanish house)...you just have to be INTERESTED in it. There are lots of cultural events and such.</p>
<p>Pomona College has its Oldenborg</a> Center, where Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish students have separate living sections.</p>
<p>Anyone can join their Foreign</a> Language Tables, five days a week for lunch, where speaking English is discouraged.</p>
<p>reed has these.</p>
<p>They seem pretty common - of the schools I looked at, about two-thirds had them (including Oberlin, Reed, Wesleyan, Macalester, Carleton, and UVM). You'd probably be better off coming up with a list of schools you like and using language housing as a criterion to narrow it down.</p>
<p>U of Michigan has a residential college division where students live seperately from the rest of the U and where you are required to practice speaking foreign languages. Here's the link
RC</a> Languages - University of Michigan Residential College</p>
<p>Emory University has a Spanish dorm, you dont have to be native, but you have to be fluent.</p>
<p>Carleton offers housing immersion in Russian, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. A "Language Associate" from the native country resides in the house and helps direct country-specific programs/activities.</p>