Contributed by Arthur Fong, Accommodations Assistant, ILSC-San Francisco Have you thought about taking your English skills to the next level? Take some inspiration from Shakira, the hip shaking Colombian who took the time to practice her English in realizing her full potential. Shakira always had tremendous success in the Latin music markets in the US,…
First Community Talk: empowering girls through green solutions
Contributed by Maria Paula Murad, ILSC Digital Marketing Specialist “Let’s teach our girls, from the beginning, a different way to see themselves,” says Suzanne Siemens, Co-founder of Lunapads, and the first guest in a new Community Talks Series at ILSC-Vancouver. The aim of the Community Talks is to bring in local experts to share their…
5 Tips to Accelerate Your Language Learning
Contributed and edited by Lacy Edney, Marketing and Social Media Coordinator, ILSC-San Francisco I’ve been on the language learning track for a while. It all started with Spanish, which was more of a lackadaisical wandering through vocabulary and tenses that never seemed to sink in. French was a slow trot over some of those hurdles, but somehow…
ILSC-New Delhi staff and students teach English in a slum
On September 5th, while celebrating the Teacher Day in India, the staff at ILSC-New Delhi visited a slum along with around 20 students who volunteered their time to teach English/Hindi to children there. There were about 35-40 children living in the area who gathered in a tiny room with dim lights and no fan in the scorching…
Top Three Benefits of Learning a New Language
San Franciscans know that their city is hip, eclectic, eccentric, open, delicious, avant-garde, multi-cultural, and maybe a little foggy! But San Francisco is also rich with bilingual and multi-lingual speakers, from Spanish to Chinese, Tagalog to Vietnamese and Punjabi, including significant hubs of Persian, Arabic, Portuguese and French speakers – the majority of whom also speak English.…