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How to help a student with homesickness: 7 tips for host families
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The key to a student having a fantastic, enriching study-abroad experience is embracing all the new experiences and the culture that their new city ha...

EF Talks: Rita, a seasoned EF host, on the art of a warm welcome
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We first met Rita at her home in Brighton, England. With her kind eyes and happy nature, Rita made us feel welcome from the moment we stepped in, imme...

Why is the world obsessed with Korea?
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Since Gangnam Style took the world by storm in 2012, weird and wonderful news stories about South Korea pop up literally every week – whether it’s the...

How to learn Korean fast – 5 tips
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It’s getting harder and harder to predict what attributes will set us apart in the job market of the future. Mastering foreign languages and cultures,...

Top cycling terms you need to watch the Tour de France
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I love to ride bikes. I commute, mountain bike, join weekly group rides and even track my rides with an app to push myself to be faster. Most of my fr...

A beginner’s guide to K-pop
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I’ve loved K-pop – a genre of popular music originating in South Korea – since high school. My best friend at that time was crazy about a group called...

Valentine’s Traditions from Around the World
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Ah, romance. Nothing gets the heart fluttering like candlelight, flowers and the sound of sweet nothings. We love it so much we have a day dedicated t...

A quick guide to Chinese New Year
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January 28, 2017, is the first day of the New Year on the Chinese calendar, and it not only marks the beginning of the Year of the Rooster but also th...

Go-to meals for host families
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Sharing your culture with your international students at meal times is an easy way to welcome them into your home – and it doesn’t have to break the b...

How to make a multilingual relationship work: 6 tips
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We all know there’s a ‘language of love’ – but what happens when love is spoken in different languages? Or, more precisely, what happens when two peop...

12 awesome Christmas traditions from around the world
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There’s a lot to love about Christmas – food, family, friends, and all kinds of other words that don’t start with the letter F. What makes the holiday...

Thanksgiving for beginners
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Thanksgiving – celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November – is the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas songs try to say otherwise, but it ju...