Alternative Holidays - Exchange Conversation for Accommodation
in Spain's Englishtown Project
Madrid, Spain -- For the last three years, over 3,000 people
have participated in the unique English language immersion
program known as Englishtown. Two venues, a 16th century
abandoned village and a plush country-style hotel, play host to
a non-stop eight-day intensive conversation program. English
native speakers from all over the world come as volunteers to
learn about Spaniards and their culture in return for their
board and lodging while the Spaniards seek to improve their
fluency in the quickest, most intensive manner possible on
earth. The participants, both English-speakers and Spaniards,
exchange culture, conversation, knowledge and friendship.
Englishtown was the brainchild of Richard Vaughan, a business
student from Texas who came to Spain to teach English in the
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