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.…
5 Tips for Creating Realistic Language Learning Goals
One of the first questions that students ask us here at ILSC Education Group is how long do I need to take classes to be able to speak Spanish, French, Mandarin, etc. The problem, is that this isn’t the right question to ask. What do students mean when they say “speak the language”? Do they mean being able…
ILSC Montreal – Keeping the support of microfinance going through KIVA….
Hello everyone! Here’s the latest update on our continued support of small international businesses through KIVA. For those of you who don’t know, KIVA is a non-profit organisation with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, KIVA lets individuals lend as little…
Lessons in Fair Trade at ILSC Sydney
In June 2013, the Global Social Issues & Marketing class at ILSC Sydney had the chance to be involved with a fair trade textiles organisation based in New Delhi known as House of Wandering Silk (HoWS). With the kind help of HoWS’ founder, Katherine Neumann, the students spent two weeks exploring the issues faced by…