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The conversation in autumn was a new experience for me, it was the first time that I talked with someone from another country deeper about a topic and not just superficially. My […]

Hello reader, my name is Valentin. At the moment, I am enrolled in a vocational high school. The fall semester at the Strickhof Lindau has finished. I had an interesting time over the past six […]

Were there any obstacles that held you back from learning from each other? Not for me. Last semester, every student in our class was assigned a […]

My name is Tobias. To improve our English skills, the teacher organized an exchange between my class and students at Queens University in Canada. The […]

“You are going to talk to some students from Canada.” That was one of the first things that I heard in one of our first English […]

My name is Raphael, I come from Heiden in Appenzellerland and I am a qualified winemaker. This year I am doing the vocational high school at Strickhof. Strickhof is an agricultural school near Wintherthur. […]

Whenthe average pupil thinksof English classes in school, probably not the best thoughts will go through their tired minds. Speaking of dry exercising in some […]

Using the LinguaLive platform, students from all over the world can come together and have conversations about any topic. After two teachers have connected their classes, students can log […]

Introduction  In our fall semester, we had to connect with students from Canada. At first, I was a quite insecure about those calls because I had no idea how well we would understand each other and how […]

For my English speaking grade, I needed to pair up with students from Canada. These students are taking German classes and are to speak to us in […]