This is a letter we received from a French student named Julien who studied at Intrax in Chicago. He wrote the entire thing in English to explain how his time at Intrax was.
Here's the first little bit, and find the complete letter in the link below.
Amerika’ya geldiginiz zaman ingilizcenizi nasil gelistirirsiniz. Bi sorunun cevabi cok kolay. Mumkun oldugunca insanlarla ingilizce konusarak, ingilizce gazete okuyarak ve ingilizce kitap okuyarak. Mesela ben turkiye de cok fazla kitap okumayi sevmezdim ta ki amerikaya gelene kadar. Geldigimden beri 6 tane kitap okudum ve halen de kitap okuyorum. Insanlarla konusurken kesinlikle utanmadan ve sikilmadan ingilizce konusmak. Ben insanlarla konusurken karsi taraf benim yanlislarimi duzeltiyorlardi ve ben bunun yararini cok gordum. Cunku bi daha ki cumlemde ayni hatayi yapmiyordum.
By Diana Wlaschitz Lopes. My experience with learning English has been a long and exciting journey, which I can divide in two parts: my studies in my country, Brazil, and my studies abroad.
First, it started when I was at the middle school, but at this time I didn’t give the right importance to the language, I think I just treated English as other subjects at school that I need memorize just to past in the exams. This way to study during the middle school was completely opposite to my second experience, studying abroad.
Choosing Intrax to study English was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. After 10 years of hard work (7 days a week and more than 13 hours a day), I found myself in the U.S. I needed a break from working hard, so I decided to go to the U.S. and study English.
I remember my first day at the school. Everything is still very clear in my mind, even though I didn’t know English!
Student Advisor: “Follow me please”…
I didn’t know what she was saying, so I just did what the other students did!
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapesbut in having new eyes.”—Marcel Proust
Travelling is absolutely my passion Number One. I love it; it is like a drug for me; I cannot stay at home for more than 3 months without going away: doesn’t matter where, doesn’t matter how, doesn’t matter with whom. I just could get crazy without moving. But travelling is not only a passion, it is also related to some reasons that inspired me to come to the USA to study English.
Before I came to here in the U.S., I was really worried about my life in here. Because this is my first living experience in foreign country and my English skill isn’t good at all. However, I always had a dream about living in America. I was so excited about everything. At first, I was in San Diego for 3 months as an Intrax School student. During the school days, I had met a lot of students from different countries and it was really good experience. Everyone had a different culture background but we could easily get along each other due to our reason to come here, improving English!!
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