Chile Forum

The German school network can be found at http://www.dschile.cl, maybe this is a good place to start looking.

Thanks Frank!

How about some sort of work-and-study programs? I really want to learn another language and obviously foreign languages are best studied in coutries where they are spoken. Unfortunately, I don't have the kind of money saved up to just move to another country and spend all my time studying. But if I could just find some part-time volunteer job that pays accomodation and a small allowance, it'll be fine.
Do you guys know how I might find something like this? The thing is, if I work in, say, a hotel and spend half my time talking to customers in English, I fear it will undermine my learning Spanish. So what I have in mind is more something like working on a farm or whatever, somewhere where all or at least most of the talikng can be managed with very basic Spanish.

Any ideas?

Wresan wrote:
How about some sort of work-and-study programs? I really want to learn another language and obviously foreign languages are best studied in coutries where they are spoken.

And languages are better learned where they are spoken well. Which is not the case in Chile. You may get formal instruction here that teaches you something close to what is grammatically correct (if you pay handsomely for that instruction). But if trying to pick up Spanish on the street or in normal conversation here, you'll end up with a bastard dialect that will have people from the Spanish-speaking countries pointing and laughing. If you might wish to learn a cleaner and arguably more mainstream variant of Spanish, you might consider the linguistically better neighbourhoods of Perú or Colombia. It's normally cheaper to live in those countries as well.