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Occasionally we receive requests from various kinds of organizations
asking us to disseminate information about them to our members. In the past, we
have generally published such information only when a FLAME member has made a
recommendation. At the FLAME Board meeting that took place on Jan. 17, 2007, it
was decided to create a special page devoted to information that is potentially
of interest to our members--with the understanding that this does not constitute
an endorsement by the FLAME Advisory Board.

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Preview all topics on
our website
www.miraflores.org |
Costa Rica Immersion Program
Join us for a trip of a lifetime. Live with a host family in Tilarán,
Guanacaste to truly experience Costa Rican culture and
hospitality. Explore the country in the morning to avoid the seasonal
rains, enjoy lunch with your host family, then study Spanish in the
afternoons at a beautiful, nearby campus. Learn the best of nature and
language from experts in the field. Day trips will include*:
1. Trip to coffee plantation or gold mine
2. Visit a working ranch
3. Visit Lake Arenal
4. Nature walks
5. Salsa/Merengue dance lessons
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Costa Rica Immersion Program |
| Tellus Languages Abroad provides cultural
immersion based language courses in Europe (French, Spanish, German and
Italian). We're also part of larger educational organisation - Tellus
Group - running 2x English language schools in England and multiple
projects under EU Lifelong Learning scheme. |
For more information,
click here. |
Cemanahuac Educational Community in Cuernavaca, Mexico
For over 25 years, Cemanahuac has offered Spanish language study
in Mexico. It is an excellent program for those who wish to quickly
develop a working proficiency in Spanish.In addition to
the four-hour language classes each day, taught by native speakers
of Spanish from 9:00 to 1:00 each weekday, students may participate
in professional seminars, field trips, and conversation and
vocabulary classes in the other half of the day.
Individual students at Cemanahuac enjoy high-quality language
programs and special professional vocabulary workshops, as well as
volunteer opportunities in Cuernavaca (for those whose study
programs are four weeks or more).
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For more information, contact Katherine Derby
at
kathi@cemanahuac.com and visit our web site at
www.cemanahuac.com .
Cemanahuac Educational Community
USA: 37 Whitehouse Road, Rochester, NH 03867
(603)608-6801
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This is a new source of information for learning
Spanish abroad.
www.spanishcourses.info is an independent directory of Spanish
schools with all information provided by them directly, no middle man, and
lots of information on the countries and cities so that you can make the
best choice. |
http://www.spanishcourses.info
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EducationDegree.com is
the biggest directory on the web of teacher education degree programs from
1,700+ colleges and universities around the US.
The directory
of Masters in Education programs is at
http://www.educationdegree.com/programs/masters-in-education/
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We also
offer a $2,500 teacher education scholarship. 
Miraflores, the cultural
publisher, now has two teaching aides on their website:
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- first, teachers can preview every single
publication without exception and |
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- second, teachers can download the thematic
units directly from the website and save. |
Miraflores publishes
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- interdisciplinary thematic units for Spanish
and French (Abrir paso and Parcours series);
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- Web-based writing assignments based on
cultural subjects (ÚTIL) and |
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- group oral presentations based on culture (PRESENTE,
forthcoming). |
Miraflores
offers teachers the tools to add culture
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by country –
every Spanish speaking country without exception, many French speaking
countries |
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- by
theme – history, art, geography, literature, music, science and more |
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by level –
beginners, intermediate, advanced |
All
thematic units, in both SPANISH and FRENCH, are available in three formats:
copy master, workbook and downloadable formats.
Please contact
us for further information.
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Language Magazine is an
independent publication for language professionals, with more than 103,000
monthly readers. Check them out at
www.languagemagazine.com
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Study Spanish at the most prestigious universities in Spain.
http://www.spanish-university.es/
Elena Gozalo Cardaba
Spanish-University.es
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The Language
Travel Company specializes in organizing Italian, Spanish, French, German,
Chinese, Greek, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic language immersion programs
for students of all levels and ages in carefully chosen study locations
across the world.
Our
language schools are all fully accredited and offer the highest standards of
teaching, and excellent facilities in carefully chosen study locations
across the world. Many of our programs qualify for the transfer of academic
credit and also offer full cultural programs to compliment our student's
language learning.
In addition to
this, all members of our advisory team, including myself, are language
graduates who have a great deal of personal experience in studying abroad.
Our work is based on a genuine enthusiasm for wonderful experiences of
living and learning languages in the country where they are spoken! We are
always happy to help students decide which course and which location (we
visit all of our schools personally) will best suit the needs of the
individual, as well give them real advice on what to expect when they study
abroad.
Jeffrey
Hayes, Language Travel Consultant, The Language Travel Company,
31 St. James Ave., Suite 770, Boston, MA 02116
http://www.languagetravelcompany.com
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This web site --
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com
-- allows children and adults to create their own comic strips. They can select from 15 fun characters
with different moods -- happy, sad, angry, worried – and write words for
blank talk and thought balloons to make their characters talk and think.
There also are story ideas and prompts to help users create graphic stories.
This site can be used by educators to teach language, reading and writing
skills, and also for students in English-as-a-Second-Language programs to
facilitate self-expression and storytelling, as well as computer literacy.
It is now being used in 160 countries by educators. Some educational
therapists use it with deaf and autistic people to help them understand
concepts and communicate. Parents and children can create stories together,
print them to create comic books or email them to friends and family.
Others will find the site a resource to be creative, calm down and have fun.
Because so many Spanish-speaking users asked us for the ability to write
their cartoons in Spanish as well as in English, we recently upgraded the
site to accept words written in Spanish, including appropriate accent marks.
This can be a useful tool for someone who is learning Spanish as well as
someone whose first language is Spanish. This feature is being expanded to
other languages, such as French, Italian and German.
I am hoping that you will share
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com with your colleagues, teachers,
students or readers of your publications and resource lists. The site is
free with no advertising. Any help you might offer in getting word out
about this project is very appreciated.
If you can suggest other people or groups whom I might contact to make
them aware of the site please send me their names, email addresses or phone
numbers. Any list-servs I might join? Relevant Internet resource sharing
groups would be helpful, too. It takes a community to build a useful
resource like this one.
As one who learned to read with comic books, I know that creating comic
strips can help people tap into their creativity and practice their language
and storytelling skills. The site is free and stems from my lifelong
mission to create resources that help people find their voice and express
themselves. The concept for makebeliefscomix.com is derived from my
earlier books, Make Beliefs and Make Beliefs for Kids of All Ages (which can
be found on my other web site:
http://www.billztreasurechest.com). A Make Beliefs interactive feature
appeared for 13 years on my syndicated Student Briefing Page for Newsday,
and in National Geographic’s World Magazine.
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I am Jing Zhang, the director of Bangor Chinese School and
the member of FLAME. We would like to share our school's information with
all our friends. The website of the school is
www.bangorchinese.com, location is 53 Cumberland St., Bangor,
Maine; phone number is 207-990-0710; email is
jingzhang@bangorchinese.com.
We are teaching Mandarin to all ages and all levels.
Let me know please if there are any I can help.
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www.mangolanguages.com is a
new, FREE website that offers foreign language instruction in about a dozen
different languages including: Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian
Portuguese, German, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, English for
Polish and Spanish speakers.
www.mangolanguages.com launched
on August 31, 2007 and as of late September 2007 the site reports that more
than 80,000 people worldwide have become registered users, including foreign
language instructors. Some of these teachers have used the website in their
classrooms and praised it as a wonderful compliment to their teaching and an
interesting way to incorporate technology into their curriculum.
For more information, contact:.
Jeannette Tarcha
PR Manager, Mango Languages
734.812.0812
www.mangolanguages.com |
I am Sylvie Reeves, a French national married to an Englishman. After 6 years
living and working in England, we settled down in France in 1987. I was head
of the Language Centre of the Saumur Chamber of Commerce and Industry
for nearly twenty years until I decided to do my own thing and registered my
small business in December 2006.
My wish is
to share our quality of life with the international francophiles who love
culture, history, heritage, gastronomy and fine wines and local savoir-
faire du terroir, offering them 101 ways
to improve their level of French , either by intensive
residential courses for those living abroad or by traditional weekly classes
or theme workshops for the Loire Valley residents. We are also in the
process of renovating part of our property, due to open as a self-catering
accommodation in June this year.
We live down the road from The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. I have resorted to
the dynamism and savoir-faire of a nutshell of professionals who really want
to make sure Fontevraud and its inhabitants will be remembered as a once in
a lifetime experience. Richard the enlumineur, Michel the upholsterer, Einav
the jewellery maker, Fabrice, master chef in La Licorne just opposite my
house.. all of us strive for a convivial fruitful exchange with visitors
from all over the world... making them share the secrets of our cultural
heritage.
Sylvie REEVES
"Parfum de France"
40 rue Robert d'Arbrissel
49590 Fontevraud l'Abbaye
Tel: +33 (0)2 41 51 78 74
Mobile: +33 (0)6 78 94 36 19
email :
info@parfumdefrance-fr.com
www.parfumdefrance-fr.com
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German Language
Courses in Munich
The DeutschAkademie offers
German intensive courses in small groups with experienced teachers. Also
preparatory courses for TestDaf and other German language certificates. Also
offers preparatory courses for diverse language certificates. Moreover, offers
accomodation at German families or at student residences. The school is located
right in the center of Munich.
URL:
http://www.deutschakademie.de/munich-german-course/
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French for Children and Beginners
Je m’appelle Stéphane Husar, originaire de Paris et basé à
Sydney. J'ai été prof de FLE, et suis maintenant
auteur-compositeur et directeur d'un petit label-musique,
ABC MELODY (http://www.abcmelody.com ).
Nous produisons des CD et autres produits pour
l'enseignement des langues dont le français bien sûr.
(1,2,3 SOLEIL, 1,2,3 TECHNO, CARTES POSTALES, SING & LEARN FRENCH)
J'ai, en 2001, effectué des voyages-ateliers sur la chanson
sur invitation des ambassades de France en Europe et aux
USA (Washington, Philadelphie et Baltimore).
J'essaie de me faire connaître mieux aux USA parmi les
enseignants. Nous avons un distributeur: WORLD OF READING très actif mais petit
pour un si grand territoire!
ABC MELODY verse 5% de ses profits à l'UNICEF.
ABC MELODY
"Catchy tunes to make language learning fun!"
51/61 Marlborough St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010Po Box 561, Woollahra NSW 1350, Australia
Phone: 61-2-9699 6466/9300 6186; Fax: 61-2-9300 6439; Mob: 0403 766 441
email: stef@abcmelody.com
http://www.abcmelody.com
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| Title: Apple Languages Description: Language travel company
offering language courses abroad
URL:
http://www.applelanguages.com
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