International Gatherings: How students met during the heath crisis.

Bonds are forged!

Communication registrations were launched in November 2020. However, there have been many positive outcomes. French-speaking students wishing to improve their English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and international students wishing to acquire French as a language. Exchanges were organised! They usually meet once or twice a fortnight and speak for 30 minutes both in French, then the other language.

Meetings:

1. Create a new dynamic between students
2. Facilitate language learning for free
3. Deepen cultural understanding
4. Offer first hand, native experience of a country’s practices and current event.

  Testimonials Marylou, student in engineering training, in tandem with Felix, a German student from the University of Innsbruck in Austria, is on an exchange program at Esa. They got in touch in January, they had the opportunity to meet each other in Angers. After a walk in the historic centre of Angers, they went to ESA to send us a picture in front of our “famous cows”.     Sophie, a Dutch student in her second year of Master Food Identity, currently on an internship in Berlin, meets every Sunday on WhatsApp with  Hélèna, a third-year  engineering student.  “Me and Hélèna have met each other just after Christmas, and decided we will see each other every Sunday to talk for half an hour in French and half an hour in English. So far it has been really interesting and valuable, learning about each other’s hobby’s, cultures, agricultural systems in our home countries and so on. We have met a total of two times now, this Sunday will be our third”. Sophie       Dominga arrived in December from Pontifica University in Chile to complete a double diploma and Céline, in her 4th year of Engineering training, are speaking partners in French/Spanish. They started their exchanges on WhatsApp in early February and will be able to meet personally as they both follow the Human and Social Sciences core course. “Céline and I had our first exchange! We talked for an hour. It was very nice. And, we’re in the same classes!” Dominga   Rakhat a Master Food Identity student from Kyrgyzistan, currently in Italy meets Clément a Bachelor’s student and Constance an engineering training student on WhatsApp every 15 days for their English/French speaking team. We also had the feedback from other students like Gabriel, a Colombian student in Master Agribusiness who exchanges regularly with his conversation team. Yazu, a Mexican student in the Master Food Identity, who exchanges in French and Spanish with her speaking partner …