Gap year courses: learning a language
July 22nd, 2010 Posted in Gap Year JobsNow you have decided to spend a whole year abroad you should consider to take advantage of your gap year travel and learn a language.
Although you can think English let you to communicate to almost everyone in the world that is not true but a misconception, about a billion humans are Chinese speaking natives and most of them don’t speak a word of English and over 500 millions speak Spanish as mother language and at the US much more people is becoming Spanish speaker, more than 50 million people nowadays.
Moreover, speaking a foreign language is always a well considered task at any future jobs applications and it will offer you the chance to communicate with much more people all over the world and it will show you that the world is everything but America.
If you finally decide to do it, you could choose among hundreds of schools all over the world that offer language immersion programs even gap year jobs included so you can make money to pay for the course and you don’t need to spend all your saving during this period abroad. Still are you shortage of money? You can find multiples scholarships and grants offered by institutions, companies and even government agencies to help you get the money to learn a foreign language abroad.
So you know, now you have no excuse to learn a language during your gap year abroad