“English speakers are brought from around the world to live and converse with Spanish people” BBC

AIM AND OBJECTIVES

It can be stressful, frustrating and unproductive for a person to do business in their non-native language if they lack the sufficient proficiency to effectively convey their position, opinions or ideas. The most effective way to improve confidence and ability to speak a foreign tongue is through concentrated exposure to the language. While the class room can teach language theory, it is putting the theory into practice that really makes a difference. The idea of Pueblo Ingles is to provide Spanish business people with an intensive exposure to raw English and to authentic and impulsive English conversation.

This is where our volunteers come in. Pueblo Ingles seeks out the native speakers to provide this exposure and provides a framework that guarantees a package of English that cannot be achieved anywhere else. Native English speakers, or Anglos as we call them, come to Spain from around the globe to help this intense immersion program achieve the following objectives:

• To expose the Spanish participants to the personal, raw and authentic styles of English spoken by native speakers. This will improve real life effectiveness as opposed to class room proficiency.
• To offer a supportive environment. Fundamental to building their confidence is showing them that despite numerous slip-ups they can still intelligibly express themselves in English.
• To train their ears to detect and distinguish different sounds.
• To force them to stop translating mentally and hence remove a long lasting and restrictive bad habit. On our programs there is no time to translate therefore thinking in English is pushed to the forefront.
• To prove to them that being effective with the English language does not revolve around a perfect mastery of grammar nor a broad spectrum of vocabulary.

Reading through these objectives you might be wondering whether it's all work and no play. You might be asking yourself about how much preparation and planning you will have to do to help achieve them. Luckily our program is designed in a way that allows it's participants to just slip right in and go with the flow, with no stress and with no hassle. All of your days' activities will be organised for you and you should never have to look ahead to anything further than your next activity or meal. The above objectives are always achieved for the simple reason that once a program gets rolling, there's no stopping it!

Look further into the detail of what it will take to become a volunteer and what we promise you in return.