It’s summer here in London. When the sun shines it shines brightly. Oxford street is heaving with tourists, which means it’s rising up, as if pushed. There are tourists from almost everywhere in the world here. London is particularly popular with Japanese and Korean tourists. A lot of single, young students come to London to shop, to have fun and to study English. They come to the UK for the summer because they believe in a concept called ‘language immersion.’
In language immersion, you don’t follow a traditional language course to learn. You do every-day activities in the target language. You live, breathe and eat in that language. In other words, you go to where it is spoken. This is why students come to the UK.
What do you do if you can’t afford to take time off work or your studies, or if your Daddy can’t send you to Oxford Street? The answer is that you download Second Life software for free, and you visit English cities in Seccond Life. It’s so much cheaper. And you can speak to real people in English. Go to Languagelab and ask for Grammar Girl. I’m there at least three days’ a week at 4am PDT.