Partnership with Terre des Langues
and Global Ties Arizona

June 10 until July 1st, 2022: become a host family for a French Student!

"In 2005 and 2007 I was able to travel to Dublin, Ireland, and stay with a host family. While Phoenix is today transforming into a truly international destination, when I was young it was still very wild west, that global mindset wasn’t common yet. Traveling allowed me to see the world differently but staying with these families allowed me to truly experience cultural differences and live it."

Jake Taylor

President Thunderbird Student Government | NRT Citizen Centered Smart Cities | MGM - Creative Industries and Design Thinking

" I will never forget the patient and nurturing nature of my host family. I was truly treated like a member of their family. (...) I remained close with my host family and have had the opportunity to not only reciprocate their generosity by inviting my host brother to visit me the following summer, but I remain connected to them to this day.

I cannot recommend this experience enough for not only the student participant, but the family. It is transformative in the best way. This sort of immersive exchange holds an incredible power to ignite curiosity and form lifelong connections across oceans."

Bethany Bennick

Director, International Affairs

Greater Phoenix Economic Council

"Since I was around 13 years old I used to take advantage of the summer season to travel around Europe and get to know other European cultures while learning English. As I grew up I realized that Europe was my comfort zone and that if I wanted to continue enjoying the most enriching experiences both linguistically and culturally I had to go further. Then I decided to travel to the USA. Before the trip, I had doubts because of the fear of not being so close to home but all that was over as soon as I met the wonderful people that were waiting for me in Arizona. My stay in Phoenix lasted about a year and just like when I traveled to London or Dublin, I came back with a better English level. The difference is that the cultural experience in the States opened my mind much more. I was able to see how the American mentality is impressive and is capable of being the engine of a country that is always at the forefront of everything they do.

But what was truly the best part of my trip was that when I got on the plane in Spain I only had one family, and when I got back I had two. One in Madrid and One in Phoenix. I will never forget how welcoming my American family and friends were."

Fernando, 21, from Spain

For any questions or information, please contact us here.

Thank you to our welcome reception/lunch sponsor!

We are grateful to Klett World Languages (KWL) for their sponsorship: thanks to KWL, our French guests and their host family will benefit from a very nice welcome/lunch reception.

Klett World Languages' mission is to help students learn languages they can use in real-life situations. And they do it by creating engaging and meaningful content that sparks their curiosity and motivates them to learn. KWL strongly believes that educators play a key role in language learning, and part of KWL's mission is to support them and give them opportunities for professional development.

We are grateful to Professor Ron Broglio and ASU - Desert Humanities for our partnership!

We are excited to announce that Professor Ron Broglio and ASU - Desert for Humanities, are partnering with us and will join our group for a 1-day trip to the Grand Canyon. Professor Broglio will make a presentation about the endangered species of the Grand Canyon. This is an incredible opportunity for our French guests and their American counterparts!

Ron Broglio writes books and essays on nonhuman phenomenology and animal studies. He has curated and produced a number of art exhibitions on contemporary environmental art. Ron is director of the desert humanities initiative at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Institute for Humanities Research.

He is the author of Animal Revolution and Surface Encounters: thinking with animals and art among other books and edited collections including the recently published The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies. He co-edits the Desert Humanities book series for Texas Tech University Press.

Desert Humanities provides environmental experiences with the desert Southwest. Its premise is that we understand, appreciate, and care about our environment through physical engagement and cultural framing. Desert Humanities provides frames or ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling about the desert and offers opportunities to immerse in the landscape and its textured histories.