Language trips range from a week to several months, with two to four weeks typical.
My first job was in the schools department at Kuoni: we ran battlefield history tours in northern France, art trips and language trips, so booking and co-ordinating these meant using my French and German every day with our suppliers – although there's always the temptation not to, because people in the travel industry tend to have very good English!
The Kamchatka Ecotourism Society delivers English-language trip assistance for hikers, skiers and sightseers, and the hilly city of Vladivostok has undergone years of rebuilding, replacing Soviet-era high-rises with luxury hotels and entertainment sites.
It was our 14-year-old daughter, Olivia, on a language study trip in Beijing.
Although he learned French in Iran, he improved his command of the language during trips to France and Belgium.
The boys speak a weird language of "trips", "bullets", "cowboys" for kings and "a nugget" for a pound.
He took us, kicking and screaming, on a getaway: in our case, a language-education trip to Guatemala.
Still, Mr. Kabila, 29, who is not fluent in Congo's official language, French, tripped over certain words, whose meaning he did not seem to grasp.
Overcooked oddities like these keep coming, and for a book where the drive lies in wanting to know what's next, language that trips up the reader is dangerous.
He is equally adept at evoking the exotic world of New Jersey that Yunior and his handsome brother, Rafa, are introduced to as children, when their father moves the family to America: the startling spectacle of snow and snowmen, television as an English language teacher, trips to the Pathmark.
Not only are school districts reconsidering foreign-language class trips to France, Spain and Italy, they are also re-evaluating school trips to Manhattan.
