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title: ICES Blog | Learn a language
description: Learn a language | This blog is our means of sharing what we love most—seeing exchange students, host families, and the global community growing closer together through youth exchange.  It’s also a way for us to do what we love to do—provide support to students and host families to help them have the best experience possible, and help those who are not (yet) an exchange student or host family understand why they should consider getting involved.
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## [Spice Up Your Life!](https://blog.icesusa.org/spice-up-your-life)

Are you tired of your routine? [Hosting an exchange student](https://blog.icesusa.org/why-i-host-exchange-students)is one way to spice up your life! Here are just a few of the many ways...

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## [10 American Idioms to Teach Your Exchange Student](https://blog.icesusa.org/10-american-idioms-to-teach-your-exchange-student)

With our students returning home soon after months in the U.S., their language skills have likely improved drastically.

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## [Language Learning Through Immersion](https://blog.icesusa.org/language-learning-through-immersion)

When I stepped off the train in Germany and met my host family for the first time, my German vocabulary was limited to the...

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![](https://blog.icesusa.org/hubfs/Brenda%20headshot.jpg) By [Brenda Padilla Ericksen](https://blog.icesusa.org/author/brenda-padilla-ericksen) On July 24, 2020

## [How to Master a Language (the fun, fascinating way)](https://blog.icesusa.org/how-to-master-a-language-the-fun-fascinating-way)

There’s a difference between **learning** a language and **acquiring** a language–in a natural way:

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