One-to-one immersion lessons truly professional and adapted to my needs

We were very pleased to have the company of Geraldine for an intensive immersion with individual lessons every day for a week in January.  She had a good level of English already, but needed to improve her vocabulary, accent and pronunciation skills in order to work with international  teams in Europe and Asia, within the IT department of an international French company based in Paris.

Social English was important for Geraldine and therefore we gave her plenty of opportunities to socialise with friends and family during her stay.

Her hosts live in the seaside village of Milford and have a large but friendly old dog called Gus (see photo) who became a good friend as well.  She was taught by Gail and Celia who prepared some challenging lesson material for this very able student.

Her comments at the end of the week were:

"I really liked the general concept of this immersion program.  The one-to-one lessons were productive and helpful.  Above all, the conversations with teachers and their relatives were interesting and helpful to reach the target we set at the beginning - especially to tune my hearing.

"From another perspective, it was so nice to meet people there, friends and families.  Also those people were gentle, generous and kind with me.  I think that helps, really to understand the culture and improve the language there.  On the top of that, my host family Sam and Andy were lovely.  It is such a surprise to meet people, really to share and to welcome you in their life for a week in this way.

"I think I achieved my objectives which were: accuracy, fluency and pronunciation.  It will be probably easier to work on a day to day basis focusing less on details, just because I acquired some automation. 

"All the people I've met were really nice and absolutely kindly.  Saying that, the organisation is truly professional and the lessons adapted to suit the student needs - which is precious!

"Thank you for that and for the special memories of Josie and Jago"

Our students arrive as welcome guests - often they leave as good friends.  Geraldine was such a student and we wish her all the best for the future with her career and her new family.

J'ai apprecie la disponibilite et la convivialite, les explications etaient concretes, mes hotes des gens charmants

As financial director of a major company dealing with colleagues of various international divisions, Isabelle needed to improve her English rapidly in order to communicate effectively in her work.

She came for 5 days in January and appreciated the programme.  However she commented that she needed longer to reach the desired level in English.  These were her comments:

"J'ai fait cet immersion 1-1 de 5 jours avec un objectif de beaucoup progresser et donc, jai souhaite ... de consacrer la plus temps possible aux cours.  J'ai apprecie la disponibilite et la convivialite de ces jours de formation.  Les explications etaient concretes.  Les dejeuners dans les pubs et promenades dans la campagne anglaise qui permettent de se reposer l'esprit et donc de re etudier facilement."

"Mes hotes etaient des gens charmants"

We hope you come back for another immersion soon Isabelle !

" Perfect organisation! now more confident to socialise; to manage conference calls and meetings in English"

Serge (right) celebrates with hosts Andy and Samantha on Friday evening at the end of his immersion training week.

Manager of a team of 70 IT staff at headquarters and 90 staff overseas, Serge came to Heritage English for an intensive immersion week.  His English was good, but he made mistakes and wanted to improve his grammatical structures as well as learn new expressions for managing meetings, telephoning and socialising overseas with non-native colleagues of many nationalities.

"Everything was well organised.  I was completely focussed on my objectives due to the perfect organisation"

"The host family was fully involved in my training and welcomed me very good.
Teachers were very attentive on my needs and have adapted training programme to fit with my expectation.  I improved the basics for grammar and vocabulary.  I have also now a good overview on how I can manage better conference calls.  I'm more confident in myself to socialise."