Good for Swiss Students

Ratings
Overall
1
Academics: 3
Support: 3
Fun: 3
Housing: 1
Safety: 4
Review

I was in an advanced group class in the Samara campus for a week. The campus is beautiful with excellent facilities and is right on the beach. The teacher was very organized and professional, and taught us fine points in grammar that were very helpful. The main drawback was that the other students were almost entirely Swiss, predominantly teenagers on a gap year after completing high school. My class was entirely Swiss and the language around the school outside of class, and within class when the teacher wasn't present was the Swiss dialect of German... It was hard to practice speaking Spanish under these circumstances. If you are an adult who does not speak the Swiss dialect of German, you may find the school is not a comfortable place to study.

Would you recommend this program?
No, I would not
Year Completed
2016
Private Note to Provider (optional)
I found it almost impossible to practice spanish on the school grounds as the primary language was Swiss/German. Unless the school intends to specialize in this way, it is a problem for others who do not speak German. Because many of the students are young girls they do not realize it may not be polite to speak only german even when another student cannot understand...including in class.