maleficent

My brother did a summer session in France his freshman year, then went back and did his entire junior year in France, thru the Univ Of Chicago. Liked it so much Frech ended up being his minor. The summer session he did, he didn't get a lot out of, because he lives with other students, and wasn't forced to speak the language. When he did the year in France, it was a total immersion program, no English spoken at all (unless you are calling home to your family). They put them thru a lot of rigorous classes, the best, he said, was a class in slang and colloquialisms.

He was completely fluent when he left, and ended up going back after graduation to work for a few years.

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