ABSTRACT
There is a difference between the foreign language courses in high schools and those offered in colleges and which courses those schools require students to take. While there were very few US-born second-language speakers, virtually all of those students had had from one to three years of foreign language classes during either their middle or high school years or both. Learning a foreign language through travel requires a more systematic arrangement of parameters that can accommodate the expectations of such education. In recent years, colleges have been offering fewer foreign language courses, often due to cuts in funding for the humanities. The chosen methods of instruction continue to impose on students the memorization of vocabulary and grammar, leaving little time actually to speak the language. While students are learning the language, they are also immersed in the culture, gaining an intuition in the language, something that cannot be taught, only experienced.
