Convo-Buddy English Club - Fall   2017

The Conversation Buddy English Club Program was designed to help you, international students, to fulfill your specifics languages needs and interests. Our goal is to promote practicing conversational English, as well as to enrich the experiences of international learners from all over the world and promote friendship with English Speakers. Additionally, the Convo-Buddy English Club aims to provide you, English Speakers, with an individual experience where you can learn about diversity and other cultures and languages while establishing a social exchange and friendship with someone from another country.

How does it Work?
The Convo-Buddy is a program for you to exchange languages and cultural experiences. The idea is to help you, international students, to improve your English conversational skills, to help you find a conversation partner so you can improve your English conversational skills, connect your classroom learning with real life experiences, and to help you to get integrated faster with the new culture and community.

 

While the native speakers of English will help the international students to practice and improve their English skills, the international students welcome the possibility to practice their native language with their convo-buddy. This way, both partners can collaborate with each other and find value in the exchange.
Who can participate?
The program is open to adults ESL learners and native/near fluent English speakers.

·     English Speakers (Volunteers can register here too !!! ) 
The English speakers are members from the community who are fluent in English language and who want to volunteer one hour per month/or week as a conversational partner.

PS: The meetings with your conversational partners should be scheduled according to your availability.
  ·   ESL learners
The program is open to ESL learners, with an intermediate level of English, who want to improve their conversational English skills. The ESL learners represent a wide variety of language, culture, and academic backgrounds. They come from all over the world and are extremely motivated to share their language and culture experiences with you.

The Meetings:
The ESL learners meet twice a week.
1)   ESL learners meet Instructor for Prep-Class on Fridays.
2)   ESL learners meet their partners for a one-on-one exchange at their convenience during the week.  

That means that the ESL learners should plan to meet ONE hour with the Instructor (Prep-Class on Fridays) and ONE hour per month/week  with their partner to exchange languages skills and cultural experiences).
PS:  The meeting with your conversational partners should be scheduled according to your partner’s availability.
The ESL learners will meet with instructor on Fridays, for an ESL Prep-Class (required for ESL participants).

· The Meetings with your conversational partners should be scheduled according to your ( and your partner’s) availability. We will talk more about it in cl