<p>I'm looking for a program for this summer in August and the date for enrollment hasn't passed. It doesn't really matter where it is, but I would prefer it to be in the midwest since I don't want my parents to spend a lot of money on airfare. Thanks.</p>
<p>The best spanish programs are in spain or central/south america. You're a rising 8th grader, right? I am too, and I'm looking at a program in Oxford that also has a program in Spain for pre-frosh. Look at putney, and if you don't want to travel, community colleges are probably okay.</p>
<p>It's probably waaaay too late this year, but have you ever considered Concordia Language Villages? they're in Minnesota, so lots of midwest kids go and they go for language immersion in a summer camp setting. I went to the Russian camp last summer and it was great. you can read my old post on a concordia thread in this forum. As far as immersion goes, you aren't gonna learn as much as if you were to go to spain, but the language classes are really good and many counselors are native speakers. This gives the camps a really fun, multicultural feel. I came out having learned a lot, and my camp wasn't even as immersion based as the Spanish one (many kids came not knowing a word of Russian, so full immersion was impossible). I'd recommend the credit program if at all possible.</p>
<p>yea concordia is pretty good for young people (i went there for 3 summers to the spanish camp. if you have specific questions about it, just ask.), but once you start getting older, it's more rewarding to go to spain and live with a family for a couple weeks/months (i've done this also, so just ask). </p>
<p>On the Oxford thing, it would seem rather pointless to travel to England to learn Spanish when Spanish is much more prevalent in the US compared to England and you may be liable of getting some English dude with an odd English accent trying to teach you Spanish.</p>
<p>sorry that this is such a brief and hurried post but it's late, so if you have want me to expand on any of this or something else, just let me know.</p>
<p>Oxbridge has the spanish program in Barcelona.</p>
<p>On whether you want to travel to England to learn Spanish, it rather depends on what sort of Spanish you want to learn. If you go to the US they will no doubt teach you Latin American Spanish. If you come to England they are much more likely to teach you Castilian (that is Spanish) Spanish. They are certainly different in pronunciation, and probably in usage as well.</p>
<p>And what the hell is the difference between "some English dude with an odd English accent trying to teach you Spanish" and some American dude with an odd American accent trying to teach you Spanish?</p>
<p>"And what the hell is the difference between "some English dude with an odd English accent trying to teach you Spanish" and some American dude with an odd American accent trying to teach you Spanish?"</p>
<p>lol yea, sorry about the "odd" comment, but I'm more just getting to the point that at oxford, there may be a possibility of being taught by a non-native speaker (obviously, there is also a chance of that in the US, but at Concordia, it's generally native speakers who teach). It is always better to be taught by a native speaker, so if you're looking into a program, make sure to see if the instructors are natives or not.</p>
<p>Summer programmes in Oxford have no connection to Oxford University. To make money the colleges rent out their rooms in the summer to private tuition companies. Then duped parents pay extremely large amounts to send their kids here because they believe this is somehow endorsed by the university. It isn't. The only summer schools actually run by the university are for under-represented minorities and
1)You have to be British to go on one
2)They are free</p>
<p>The summer spanish program with oxbridge is in barcelona, spain, not oxford.</p>
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Exactly. It has no connection to Oxford university in any way. None of these programmes with Oxford, Cambridge or Oxbridge in their names do.</p>
<p>Thanks, guys. I've found a few programs for next summer. I might do People to People Student Ambassadors, though. I'd do the European Odyssey where you travel through France, Italy, and Greece. It looks pretty cool. :)</p>
<p>EF has the International Language Schools and you could pay it for it now and be there by this Sunday. It is very expensive and you'd pay for it all at once b/c it would be next week but its really cool. Check it out...ef.com.</p>
<p>I spent last year living in Chile as an exchange student. I am now fluent (or was...forgetting now after 2 months of not speaking a lot of Spanish)...
Talk to your local Rotary club about going during the summer to South America/Spain. It is likely that they will pay some of your expenses as they did for me. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.rotary.org%5B/url%5D">www.rotary.org</a> and look up Rotary Youth Exchange somewhere on the page. There should be links for summer short term programs.</p>
<p>They treated me well and even paid me to be in Chile.</p>