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[Crockpot2001]

I have a Korean friend that would like to send his 10 y/o son to the US or Canada for an English immersion camp. He does not want it to be one where there is a high likelihood of Korean being spoken. The internet seems to provide quite a few options. Anyone have a recommendation for a camp such as he is looking for?

I've asked him if a student exchange type situation would also be acceptable but he has yet to respond.

Thanks

[wylies99]

[Robot_Teacher]

There are ESL jobs in the USA, but they require higher qualifications such as speaking Spanish and/or Chinese, knowing someone to refer you, and the pay is not so good. You're probably looking at $10 part time with no benefits. It's tough to get any sort of job in today's American economy be it ESL, retail sales, accounting, whatever as it's all screwed up on a macro level. There's currently millions of people going through personal career and financial crisis as the economy restructures to adapt to changing times and correct itself due to corruption and the debt based bubble economy bursting. Now, it's recently been acknowledged we have a human capital bubble where we over educated and produced too many highly skilled and qualified, but underemployed people. The US government promoted getting a college education by guaranteeing student loans to anyone without a drug felony on their record so we have over produced grads to a job market that doesn't need em'.

[Crockpot2001]

Huh? Maybe you cut pasted to the wrong thread or I am simply proving how daft I am in understanding your response.

[roadballmint]

Concordia Language Villages- They're up in northern Minnesota and they run summer camps in 12~14 languages, including English (all at separate campuses, of course). I went to the French village as a high school student back in 2001 and had a great time. I haven't followed the program much since then, but I assume it's still going strong.

Concordia takes the language immersion seriously, so there would be no instruction in Korean. However programs like that tend to attract a lot of Korean students. He might spend a lot of time outside official camp activities in a 'Korean clique.' If zero Korean is important to your friend, make sure you check out the camp's enrollment statistics by country (that goes for any English immersion program, not just Concordia).

If his English is good enough, he could always just go to a regular summer camp in the US or Canada.