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Memorable Study Abroad and Homestay Programs

ICC has partnership agreements with several prestigious educational institutions worldwide, such as EF International Schools with more than 50 schools worldwide. All the local instructors are experienced, qualified native speakers, who follow a unified approach to methodology, progress assessment and quality assurance.

The homestay programs give students a first-hand experience of the local culture and customs by sharing in everyday life of the host family. Students are able not only to practice the target language skills while having dinner with their host families, they can also participate in family activities, such as weekend hikes, shopping trips and sightseeing tours.
Local coordinators visit the host families regularly to ensure that students are provided with a comfortable and enjoyable place to study and relax. All host families live in safe neighborhoods, most of them just a short bus ride or walk away from the schools. The host families enjoy hosting international students, because they are interested in other countries and cultures, so it will be fun to talk to them about your home country and other interesting topics in the local language.

Of course, during their studies, students can also choose to stay in a student dormitory close to their school, in an apartment, or in a hotel room.

 

 

 

Why choose ICC’s study abroad and homestay programs?

- Our partner schools have top-quality language services and expertise worldwide.
- We aim to make students’ trips as easy and as safe as possible.
- We ensure that our programs run smoothly, professionally and enjoyably.
- We can tailor-make programs to suit the students’ specific needs
- Upon request, our staff can visit your school or organization to provide information
about our programs, at your convenience.
- We receive very positive feedbacks from our individual students and corporate clients.

 

WHY STUDY ABROAD?

Why study abroad is one of the best decisions you’ll ever make!


Study abroad is an enriching and eye-opening adventure, where learning extends far beyond the classroom. The experience will expose you to new ways of thinking, living, and viewing the world. Benefits include the opportunity to learn about another culture firsthand, learn an entirely new language or become fluent in one you have already studied. You can travel and develop new intellectual pursuits, skills, and perspectives. By living within another culture, you are likely to gain a new understanding of, and perhaps even appreciation for your own country and its way of life. Studying abroad can lead to personal and professional growth and the acquisition of valuable skills including adaptability, communication, patience, cultural awareness, problem-solving, observation, confidence and awareness of global issues. You can also expect to make friendships and create memories that will last a lifetime.

Here are 10 excellent reasons why you should study abroad:

1. Study abroad is the optimal way to learn a language.
There is no better and more effective way to learn a language than to be immersed in a culture that speaks the language you are learning. You're surrounded by the language on a daily basis and are seeing and hearing it in the proper cultural context. Language learning happens most quickly under these circumstances.

2. Study abroad provides the opportunity to travel.
Weekends and academic breaks allow you to venture out and explore your surroundings, both your immediate and more distant surroundings. Since studying abroad often puts you on a completely different continent, you are much closer to places you might otherwise not have had the opportunity to visit. Some more structured study abroad programs even have field trips planned in or around the curriculum.

3. Study abroad allows you get to know another culture first-hand.
Cultural differences are more than just differences in language, food, appearances, and personal habits. A person's culture reflects very deep perceptions, beliefs, and values that influence his or her way of life and the way that s/he views the world. Students who experience cultural differences personally can come to truly understand where other cultures are coming from.

4. Study abroad will help you develop skills and give you experiences a classroom setting will never provide.
Being immersed in an entirely new cultural setting is scary at first, but it's also exciting. It's an opportunity to discover new strengths and abilities, conquer new challenges, and solve new problems. You will encounter situations that are wholly unfamiliar to you and will learn to adapt and respond in effective ways.

5. Study abroad gives you the opportunity to make friends around the world.
While abroad, you will meet not only natives to the culture in which you are studying, but also other international students who are as far from home as yourself.

6. Study abroad helps you to learn about yourself.
Students who study abroad return home with new ideas and perspectives about themselves and their own culture. The experience abroad often challenges them to reconsider their own beliefs and values. The experience may perhaps strengthen those values or it may cause students to alter or abandon them and embrace new concepts and perceptions. The encounter with other cultures enables students to see their own culture through new eyes.

7. Study abroad expands your worldview.
In comparison with students of most other countries, especially Japanese and American students tend to be uninformed about the world beyond their nations’ boundaries. Students who study abroad return home with an informed and much less biased perspective toward other cultures and peoples.

8. Study abroad gives you the opportunity to break out of your academic routine.
Study abroad is likely to be much unlike what you are used to doing as a student. You may become familiar with an entirely new academic system and you will have the chance to take courses not offered on your home campus. It's also a great opportunity to break out the monotony of the routine you follow semester after semester.

9. Study abroad enhances employment opportunities.
The world continues to become more globalized, and through an employer's eyes, a student who has studied abroad is a person who is self-motivated, independent, willing to embrace challenges, and able to cope with diverse problems and situations. Your experience living and studying in a foreign country, negotiating another culture, and acquiring another language will all set you apart from the majority of other job applicants.

10. Study abroad can enhance the value of your degree.
While abroad, you can take courses you would never have had the opportunity to take on your home campus. In addition, study abroad gives your language skills such a boost that it is normally quite easy to add a minor in a language or even a second major without having to take many more additional courses after the return to your home campus.