Then I heard about a house-swapping site, Homelink, through friends at an Italian language school.
"Things are so much quieter now, " said Rogelio Vallesteros, who runs a Spanish-language school in Oaxaca City.
Donna Long, a lifelong resident of the island, has four sons who all attend the Manx-language school.
The Foreign Office is reopening its language school, which closed in 2007 and has increased funding for courses.
Although they go to a Welsh-language school, his daughter Seren and son Ruairi speak English to each other.
The Mr Bean star plays the title role in Quartermaine's Terms, Simon Gray's 1981 tragi-comedy about teachers at an English language school.
"We are reopening a language school in the FCO that will train up to 1, 000 staff a year, " Foreign Secretary William Hague said.
It has a dedicated foreign-language school with international teachers and touts its English-language teaching skills, the foreign studies of many of its faculty members and its alliances with foreign schools.
But with its medical and legal services, and the English language school it ran for the company's thousands of immigrant workers, the department appears to have done more good than harm.
In 1980, the first book, The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz (of language school fame) and William L. Moore, put the debacle 190 miles west of Roswell, in the Plains of San Agustin (site No. 2) .
Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.
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In Cornwall, after school clubs have been set up to encourage the use of the language and there's a Manx-language primary school on the Isle of Man.
There are not enough pupils to justify a complete new school, but the parents do not want to make do with a unit in an English language medium school.
Year four pupils take six lessons in the language during school hours as part of the citizenship curriculum.
Now, teachers at the Cherokee Nation language immersion school in Tahlequah, Okla.
Four primary schools in County Londonderry could send pupils to an Irish language secondary school which is a 'satellite' of one in Belfast.
Clairsville, Ohio to start an English-language offshore medical school that would put Yife's bare-bones school to shame.
The number of Welsh speakers among young people is increasing as more and more of them go to Welsh-medium schools, but they tend not to use the language outside of school.
And despite years of mandatory English-language classes in secondary school, the Japanese score lowest among rich countries on English tests.
He told me his biggest challenge in education wasn't budget holes, it wasn't crumbling schools -- it was that the parents were too demanding. (Laughter.) He's had to import thousands of foreign teachers because parents insisted on English language training in elementary school.
They want total immersion in the language just like at primary school.
Qassim Saad, an Arabic language teacher in an elementary school nearby, said his pupils began screaming as the explosion shattered windows and sparked panic.
Last year, Mrs Wilkin-Shaw went to the High Court, claiming the private school's language teacher Christopher Fuller had failed to properly supervise the teenagers during their training.
"We felt that if the school closed the Welsh language would die in the village, " she added.
Prince Henry's Grammar School is a specialist language college with about 1, 400 students.
The OCR, meanwhile, is setting up a Language Ladder, starting at primary school, to assess children's skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking.
But he is a typical product of Peru's provincial middle class: he is mestizo (of mixed race), speaks no Indian language and went to a private school.
In May, a study commissioned by the Scottish government said children in Scotland should begin learning a second language as soon as they started school at the age of five.
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Singapore's Nanyang Business School offers a Chinese-language executive MBA and from next year will have an English version.
Many fewer school students are learning the language than did so 10 years ago, meaning fewer have the slightest idea what Rammstein are on about.
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