Work Experience Abroad
Improve your language skills and job prospects by working abroad. A perfect choice for A-Level modern language students.
Improve your language skills- Experience the local culture
- Meet new friends & socialise
- Enhance your future job prospects
2013 Dates Available Now! - Our trips for 2013 are now live! Enroll Now to be sure not to miss out on our Early Bird discounts.
FAQs
Who can go?
Our work experience trips are open to 16-18 year olds studying a foreign language at AS/A2 level or similar. If you’re a teacher wanting to take a class of students, we can arrange a tailor made trip for your group organising transport, accommodation and work placements for each of your students.
Where will I work?
All of our work placement selections are based on your profile and the availability of placements. Examples of typical placements are shops, restaurants, cafés, hotels and kindergartens. It is important to note that the main aim of the work experience trip is to improve students' linguistic abilities.
Can I go on my own?
Every year we have many students who travel on their own and they soon make new friends. Before you travel you will be able to contact other students on your trip via an event on our Facebook page so you can get to know each other before you go. Our group leaders are also trained in getting students to integrate and mix. more...
Can I travel with my friends?
If you select the same trip as your friends then we will always endeavour to place you all in the same city. Please remember to tell us that you are travelling with friends when booking. We will give you a booking code once you have enroled on a trip, which you can pass to your friends to ensure they are on the same trip.
Tom 
Lauren Jenner 
Emma Freudenthal 
Tom Lees' Story
Spending a week in Bordeaux in the South West of France was probably one of the best decisions I've ever made. Not only was the trip useful for my French, I met some people from a completely different part of the UK who have become friends who I know I'll stay in contact with for a very long time. Starting very early in the morning (around 6am!), the group of 18 of us left London Luton airport along with our group leader, Donna. The majority of us had never met before, yet we soon arrived in Bordeaux and had our first evening out together, where we all got along really well and discussed our hopes for the placement the following day.
I, personally, was really nervous, having to speak in French for the entire week, but I was excited nevertheless. Bordeaux has an extensive tram system called 'le tramway' or 'le tbc', so I travelled to my placement every day via the tram which took me around 20 minutes, crossing the river and into read more...
Lauren Jenner's Story
I applied for Halsbury Spanish work experience for February 2011 and it was by far the best trip I have ever been on. Forget college trips work experience abroad challenges your language skills and allows you more freedom and independence.
In my online application form, which was surprisingly simple, I could choose preferences to what type of work I wanted to do. This meant I wasn’t stuck in a job I found boring for the whole week! I posted my money and soon enough I was given a placement and details of my trip. I found that all my queries could be answered quickly over the phone which made me less nervous about my trip. Halsbury also had a Facebook page where you could chat to other people on your trip; it was reassuring to find that most people were as nervous as me!
My placement was in a sports leisure centre in Salamanca. Halsbury purposely left me to read more...
Emma Freudenthal's Story
My work placement in Koblenz was at Café Werrmann, a beautiful little place that specialised in amazing cakes and ice cream dishes. I first saw the café and introduced myself to my colleagues on the day after my arrival in Germany, and I was really nervous. Not only did I have to find my placement myself – my first taste of the independence that I came to love – but I was also about to have my first proper encounter with a native German speaker in Germany. I had no idea whether or not they would understand me, as I had already realised that speaking German in a classroom in England was nothing at all like speaking German in Germany. I couldn’t rely on English anymore!
Thankfully, after getting a bit lost, I found my placement, and was very happy that I could not only make myself understood without too much difficulty, I could also understand them. Admittedly, not everything, so there was a bit of nodding and saying ‘Ja’ at what seemed like the right moment, but I read more...