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The stay at Dialogue was most helpful in focusing my efforts on key areas for improvement. The teaching methods were well adapted to my requirements and the teachers were excellent.

David P. McNeilly, david.mcneilly@wanadoo.fr

The quality of instruction was quite high, with a great deal of attention given to individual needs. I was able to make significant progress in the areas of greatest importance to me in a short period of time.

Colleen Keenan

On my return home, I received with interest the most recent cassette to which I have subscribed for a long time. A month ago I heard about 50 %. Now, after my stay at DialoguE, I hear almost all.

David Moore

Total immersion is the only way and Dialogue has it all, in a wonderful living and working environment. Just 5 days of intensive learning brought back my previous standard of oral comprehension and expression, following years of non-usage. I have no hesitation in recommending Dialogue to anyone wishing to improve their language skills.

John Keating

DialoguE:

Lessons of Kilimandjaro

In this sensitive year, after the tragic events of 11 September 2001, many of you have again placed your trust in us. All DialoguE centers have enjoyed a record number of enrolments in 2002, for which we sincerely thank you.

Tailor-made courses and a family atmosphere are certainly the ingredients of a recipe that is rapidly gaining popularity. As paradoxical as it may seem, the Kilimandjaro is not alien to this success. In climbing the slopes of this mountain, Claudine and I could hardly imagine that this adventure would allow us, many years later, to offer the DialoguE approach to the whole world.

You will find in the table below a summary of the lessons the mountain taught us. We shall only pin to it the following anecdote. This goes to show that learning a language, far from being a passive act, is an enriching construction of meaning.

The excursion was made in 5 days: 3 days and 1 night to arrive at the summit situated at more than 6000 meters, 2 days to climb back down. The first day we naturally answered ‘Abari’ to all those whose paths we crossed and greeted us by using this expression. And what if this expression wasn’t the equivalent of ‘Hello’? Wouldn’t the best strategy have been to speak first? In fact the correct answer was ‘Muzuri sana’. The people we had crossed had not been greeting us but asking us how we were!

Claudine & Jean-Luc Godard
info@dialogue.com