Hattie is a Leicester student who spent the first semester of her year abroad in Paris and now she's coming to the end of her second semester at university in Lyon. Here's what she will - and definitely won't - miss from her year abroad.

Grace studied at The University of Ferrara in Italy for her first semester and is interning at a Turin translation agency for her second. She is blogging about her experiences Grace goes to Pizzaland, but here she passes on her top tips about survival in Italy for foreign students.

One of our Twitter followers recently asked where our section for contributors was, and we realised that although we have a 'write for us' section, it might be useful to have a list of articles and features we really need your help with - especially as the majority of our content is written by our members about everything they wish they'd known before they left! Collins have also offered some incentives for our language articles, so do have a look through and let us know if you'd be interested in helping us...