Adolesco was founded in France by Jacques and late Katherine Pinault and Florence and Xavier Racinais. Jacques started arranging language exchanges in 1978,\u00a0initiating and nurturing year-long exchanges (six months for each child) for three decades – Xavier, at nine, was the first child to exchange\u00a0over 37 years ago!<\/p>\n
Some years ago, Jacques, Katherine, Florence, and Xavier saw the need for shorter term exchanges between the UK & Ireland and Europe and Adolesco, offering exchanges of between 3 week and 3 months,\u00a0was born.<\/p>\n
Adolesco is a French\u00a0Company, a\u00a0non-profit organisation dedicated to the idea that\u00a0linguistic and cultural exchanges offer participating children and families extraordinary benefits.<\/p>\n
We have\u00a0a network of multi-lingual representatives in Spain, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Canada\u00a0and the USA to ensure that right from your first call to hosting and travelling you and your child or teenager\u00a0are fully supported at every stage.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s not just a linguistic exchange: we propose something rather different:<\/p>\n
It is our aim to create friendships between different countries and cultures, a friendship between two children and their families. To us this is the most important part, since after the friendship has begun, the linguistic benefits will come quite naturally.<\/p>\n
Throughout his or her stay abroad, your child will hear the foreign language 24\/7. But also, thanks to the friendship that will have grown during both parts of the exchange, they will be motivated to pay close attention during the language lessons back at school. Of course return visits to their new family in subsequent years will help as well.<\/p>\n
Right from the beginning, after the first long-term exchange, we saw that the linguistic results were remarkable but that the human side of the adventure was even more astonishing!<\/p>\n
Learning a new language, understanding another culture, and growing beyond our cultural boundaries benefits ourselves, our families and our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why choose Adolesco? We have over 37 years of experience… Adolesco was founded in France by Jacques and late Katherine Pinault and Florence and Xavier Racinais. Jacques started arranging language exchanges in 1978,\u00a0initiating and nurturing year-long exchanges (six months for each child) for three decades – Xavier, at nine, was the first child to exchange\u00a0over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5349,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t