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IceTrans School
REYKJAVIK ICELAND
COURSES, PRICES, ABOUT US Courses and Prices are subject to change without notice
A New Revolutionary Learning Method: The Inter-Lingual Learning Technique developed by the School of Icelandic:
Intensive Courses in Icelandic for Foreigners are held in 7 week courses 3 times a year and 5 week courses 2 times a year: June and July. Prices are around 600$ + housing with cooking and washing facilities 650 $ for 5 weeks and 850 for 7 weeks. Beginner courses are 3 days a week for 7 weeks at 18:00-19:30 evenings or 5 week summer courses 4 days a week - Monday to Thursday 18-19:30. Groups are usually small 5-14 students. The method works in a simple way with the advanced method of the Inter-Lingual Learning Technique with the phonetics of English, Icelandic or other Western or Indo-European Languages. The holistic method enables us to grasp much more clearly the connection between those languages as well as their common background as indeed their long term development towards each other as a result of ever more interaction and exchange between people and therefore the common and united future of these languages as well as the people that speak them. This in turn enables the students to master the language all the more easily and make the learning process much more basic and tangible and the language and the way it works more understandable and under your control and command. In other words we make use of what we know from our own mother language and apply it to a new language. This technique applies to all languages but has as yet been particularly developed to deal with European and Western Languages and Indo-European languages.
NEW TEACHING TECHNIQUES! INTENSIVE COURSES IN ICELANDICfor foreigners and settlersALL YEAR ROUND
Since spring and summer 1997 the school has run 4 Week Intensive Courses in Icelandic for Foreigners. Lessons are 1 1/2 hours a day either 3 workdays per week in September and January courses and 1 ½ hours x 4 times a week in the June and July courses. Before the intensive courses there had been held courses since 1990 that were 2 times a week for 8 weeks x 80 minutes but those courses started in 1990. The Intensive Courses for beginners are beside settlers In Iceland, people working or studying for shorter or longer periods in Iceland and students as well as working people from many European countries, USA, Canada, South America and Asia have been participating so you could say that the school is teaching the world Icelandic!!
SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC
So actually a special school or department within the main school has been founded. The school is run all year round for foreigners and settlers as the SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC, which is its formal name.
5 and 7 Week Intensive Courses in Icelandic for foreigners:
COURSE SCHEDULES 2007 ICELANDIC BEGINNER COURSES
Jan 29–March 15.: 7 week course x 4 times a week x 1 1/2 hour May 29 – June 28 :5 week course x 4 times a week x 1 ½ hour. September 24 – November 1. - 7 weeks course x 3 times a week x 1 ½ hour
Course fee US Dollars 600,-
Room per 7 weeks; price USD 850 Room per 5 weeks : Price USD 650 Includes: Admission to kitchen and laundry/washing room
Payment of School Fees: The School fees are due 4 weeks in advance of the starting time of the course in question.
Description of Icelandic Programs and other Course Related Info:
Basic Language of Instruction: English
*I Beginners: Basic vocabulary of daily language, sound/phonetic systems and letters, basic grammar. A thorough basic structure is built up that makes the students more independent but also builds up a base and prepares for further studies. Basic language of instruction: English.
*II Advanced: Goes on building up and widening vocabulary and adds some more grammar structures like irregular verbs. Basic language of instruction: English. Note: Seldom run!
Eligibility (Age, years of study necessary, etc): No particular eligibility or age, most students have finished High School and / or College education. A Western, Scandinavian, Germanic, English or "Indo-European” mother language can be more important and be more helpful. All study and knowledge of other languages than your mother languages helps still more. Most students are rather young though, at the age from 17-40.
Is course credit available? The courses have been credited by some American, Canadian and Scandinavian schools and Universities. All courses end with examinations. The school also runs fully credited High School and College Courses in Icelandic for Icelanders as well as other languages and subjects. Is housing provided? The school tries to assist students in finding housing. Price is $ 650 per 5 weeks and 850 per 7 weeks. What kind of housing? Rooms with access to kitchen and wash room.
Cost (calculated in US dollars): 5 or 7 week evening courses USD 600. Classes 3 or 4 x 1 ½ hour 18:00-19:30. Mond-Wednesday-Thursday or Monday to Thursday. 7 week evening courses: x 3 times a week 18:00-19:30: USD 600 5 week courses x 4 times per week: USD 600
Deadline for Applications: 4 weeks ahead of course start.
Is this program offered annually? 3-4 Intensive 5 or 7 week evening programs per year. Other Comments: Courses are held in small groups of students: Minimum number: 6 students Maximum Number: 20 students.
Total number of hours per 5 or 7 week courses: Total number of teaching hours: 31,5.
Better Study Techniquesto fight dyslexia!
According to Mr Antonsson the Educational Technique or Study Technique developed at the school has been much more successful and useful for most students than traditional methods. The Teaching and Learning Techniques of the school are based upon more emphasis on a deeper functional, realistic and holistic understanding of the subject. The sounds of languages are taught in a way that is simple to understand and most languages taught directly from the point of view of the students mother language, as it is usually closely related to the languages the student is learning. You could say that the learning technique makes use of the connection between the student´s previous knowledge of his/hers own language and the language to be studied. The pedagogics of teaching and studying therefore become more ´´holistic´´, understandable and manageable for the student as well as the teacher. Much more weight is put on seeing the picture as a whole and therefore put on seeing the picture as a whole and therefore by heart somehow. For instance, Antonsson, the principal says, ´´dyslexic students have done much better in languages with the school´s Revolutionary Inter-Lingual Learning Technique´´.
“THE INTER-LINGUAL LEARNING TECHNIQUE”
Sociologists, psychologists, teaching and educational experts and linguists in the western world have proved, with numerous researches, that settlers learn the language of their new home country much better and sooner if they have a good knowledge of their original language and get good tutoring in it, even if the teaching must take place in their new home country. In cases where this has not been put in work there are some very bad cases where children of settlers haven´t been able to learn to talk or read with basic skills in any language, neither its original nor the language of the new country. This is no coincidence, because a language is not only a flow of words to be learned by heart, but a tool to think, influence thought and knowledge and to dress it into words.
Are the Icelanders settlers?
But what about an Icelandic who for instance wants to learn English? Is he then some sort of a settler? “Yes exactly”, says Mr Antonsson, “that´s right. The answer is definitely yes. At least if an Icelander wants to learn a language from another country or people, then he is in the same position as the “´settler”´ and of course the same educational methods apply to him as to everyone else. On this ground the study technique of the Adult Educational Institute and the SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC, “´The Inter-Lingual Learning Technique”´ or the The Mother Language Technique”, is based and founded and that is why the languages to be learned are so much more connected to the student´s mother language and the students knowledge of his/her mother language it is sharpened, to strengthen the student´s knowledge and understanding of the new language. In this way the basis of the studies is always what the student already knows, his own mother language.” So always when possible and the teacher has knowledge of the student´s mother language, as much use as possible is made of this connection and similarities as well as unsimilarities. A sort of a comparative method. This is more true of course for the study of Icelandic than for example for the study of Business English.
National or International ?Actually two sides of the same thing!“The other side of the school´s study techniques is based on the fact,” says Orlygur Antonsson, “ that in most cases languages closely connected to Icelandic are being studied. And they are, when it comes down to it, almost versions of Icelandic and of each other, as with the European languages, that a few thousand years ago were one and the same language, the Indo-European Language, which because of population movements was divided into three main parts: the Latin, the German and the Slavic”.
A “Neo-European” Language?An increasing interaction of peoples and societies has long ago turned this trend and the languages are now rapidly developing in the direction towards each other. A continuously growing economical, political, social and personal interaction and standardisation is going on at all levels of society and the languages need and must follow this development, even though languages tend to change and develop more slowly than other areas of society and though adjustment of languages towards each other for different reasons have been mostly set aside in this work.
LEARNING AND TEACHING techniquesin rythm with the times of today and tomorrowThe learning technique of the Adult Educational Institute and The SCHOOL OF ICELANIC; The Inter-Lingual Learning Technique, takes notice of this multinational and international reality and considers and teaches a language as a living and changing tool to meet the needs of each time and place in history and not as a dead or holy thing or a sacred thing which may neither be touched nor changed and should be suppressed in the philosophical chains of nationalism and separatism. In this way the learning technique emphasizes what languages and people have in common – which is overwhelming - instead of emphasizing the differences – which, when it comes down to it, are actually minimal.
It does not matter much how fast you run, if you are running into the wrong direction SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC ICETRANS plcTranslation & Interpretation ServicesINFO on STAY PERMIT
1) The following states are members of EEC (European Economic Community) and citizens of these countries can enter Iceland without having a ticket forth and back and are allowed to look for a job for a period of 3 months:
Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany.
2) The citizens of the following countries do NOT need a VISA to ENTER the Iceland: Even though they are allowed to enter the country as tourists or on business it does NOT mean that they automatically can get a STAY PERMIT:
Austria, Australia, The Bahamas, USA, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Brasil, Great Britain. Chile, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Grenada, Greece, Gynea, Holland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Canada, Ciribathi, Cyper, Lesotho, Letland, Lichteinstein, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malasia, Malawi, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, Polland, Salomon Islands, San Marino, Seychell Islands, Singapore, South Korea, The Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, St. Lucia, ST. Vincent and Grenadines, Schwitzerland, Sweden, Swaziland, The Check Republic, Trinidad and Tobaco, Hungary, Uruguay, The Vatican, Germany.
An Application for a Limited Residence Permit?
What papers are needed ? There are 3-4 things that are needed together with an application form for Limited Residence Permit and An Application for a Prolongation of a Limited Residence Permit. These papers are except for the application form itself:
1. A certified copy from the applicants passport.
2.A document on how the applicant is going to sustain him- or herself economically. A certified or witnessed document from parents or other relatives declaring that they will pay or take care of the costs of living for the applicant could do for example or if the applicant can in some way prove that he/she has the economic means to support him- or herself economically during the stay. A declaration from the applicantsbank or the like should do.
3.In the case you are going to study during the period, a signed document from the School or Institution in question is needed on the students registration and payment of school fees.
4. A doctor’s certificate on the medical condition of the applicant. Attention: To our knowledge this rule is not necessary to follow until you are already in Iceland, but all applicants must have a medical check. If you already have a doctors results on you general health condition it might help though.
Registration & Payment Certificate: The school will make a Registration Certificate for the Course/Courses the student has applied for to prove that the studentś application is accepted and has paid school fees. The certification should then be sent to the Immigration Office together with the Visa/Stay Permit Application if that is needed:
Name: Utlendingastofnun Icelandic Immigration Office Address: Skogarhlid 6, IS 105 Reykjavik, Iceland Phone:+354-5105400, Fax: 5105405 E-mail: utl@utl.is
Refund Policy in case visa application is turned down Only Registration fee 120 USD + Transfer fee: 50 USD is not refundable: Total 170 USD not Refundable .
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