British Columbia

  • Boa Lingua extended work & study offer BOA Lingua expands offering for language courses abroad in combination with work, internships, opportunities or a gap year. Exclusive programs on Canadian horse farms are the highlight. Work & study links by BOA Lingua activities and language learning abroad. The farmstay offers the opportunity to attend a language course in one of the two cities and then to complete a stay on a farm or Ranch in the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia program in Victoria and Calgary. Boa Lingua has guaranteed places on this Canadian ranches.

    On a horse, discover the Canadian wilderness stands for green forests, campfire, wide steppe and mirror-like Lakes the land. Who would like to explore this fascinating area on the back of a horse, and at the same time wants to improve his English, is right at the farmstay program. Riding skills are prerequisite for the work on a ranch, because it helps as a budding cowboy or Cowgirl in livestock farming or works with at a riding stable. Boa Lingua offers also courses on wine, fruit and vegetable farms, where no riding experience will be provided as an alternative. After a 6-week language course in Victoria or Calgary starts the stay on the ranch, which lasts between 2 and 24 weeks. During this time, one lives with the rancher family and learns firsthand the farm life and the culture. Between April and October is the perfect time for a Ranchstay.

    Volunteering or working abroad in addition to the work on a horse farm offers also the possibility to work in social or ecological projects work & study in the area of the internships. These are located in particular in Latin America or South Africa. Who prefer experiences in the international profession would like to collect, can connect the course work or an internship. Boa Lingua partner schools have a good network to resident companies of different industries locally. For example, London, Manchester, San Francisco, San Diego and Calgary are new in the offer. Long time language stays from 16 weeks (now also in London and New York), a language year (2 languages to 2 destinations) and Demi-pair programs (in Australia, Ireland, and Spain) complete the work & study offer. With the work & study program can you dive deep in the culture, is in close contact with the local population, can apply the foreign language daily and achieved great progress.