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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The trip is still mostly tourist destinations and tour buses with a couple days of homestays. 4 days of homestay is not exactly worth $7,000 for my child and I to go on this trip when I could do the tourist package for my whole family for only a few thousand more.[/quote] Not a YY parent here, but, as a returnee from various exchange opportunities and fluent speaker of three langauges, I'm struck by this really odd declaration. Aren't "homestays" (I assume these are stays in families etc.) exactly what is recommended to get meaningful exposure to a foreign language and culture. Indeed, if you want a tourist trip to shoot photos of yourself in front of countless attractions, then such cultural immersion would be a total waste of time. But why in the world would you then enroll your child at YY?[/quote]
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