When you come to study at a language school in London you really want to make sure you benefit as much as you possibly can. One of the obvious reasons to come to London is to be able to meet native English speakers – you can do this fairly easily by staying with a host family but we can offer you something extra. One of the opportunities UIC can offer its students is to take part in a language exchange where one of out international students in London to improve their English meets up with one of our (usually) British students coming to the school to learn a foreign language. Not only does it have the obvious advantage of enabling – for example a Spanish student here to learn English to meet up and practise English/Spanish with an English person learning Spanish in London. It’s always been one of our aims to get something like this up and running and now thanks to the software we have installed as our e-learning platform we are able to offer this fantastic opportunity.

All our students will be given a log in (in fact it’s the normal login for the e-learning) and one of the options they will then have is to log onto the Language Exchange or LX. Once in this area there are different choices you make to describe yourself and you language learning – for example your first language, which language you are learning, your level in the 2nd language and availability. You will then be matched with another student and given the opportunity to email them. We ask that you meet your ‘partner’ in the school on the first occasion so it’s safe and easy – but because everyone who has access t this area is already registered with UIC as a student of one language or the other then it will always be safe. After the first meeting you are free to arrange anything you want.

This service is being launched at the end of September soo make sure you are registered and you take advantage of the fantastic opportunity.

So where other schools may recommend the idea of a language exchange they might not be able to help you very much in achieving it – just telling you to go out and speak to native speakers! We, on the other hand have the perfect way for you to achieve this.

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