Helen is studying French and Management at Lancaster University, and is currently finishing her Year Abroad in Paris after spending six months doing an internship in Antibes. Here's her advice about finding somewhere to live, banking, travelling and speaking French in Antibes.

Idioms, are perhaps the most complex part of any language learning experience as they are culturally relevant and usually seem to make no logical sense whatsoever to those as outsiders. Competent understanding and usage of idioms in a foreign language truly shows you that you are well on your way to mastering the language, and are pretty confident already. I am spending my year abroad as an English language assistant in Spain and so chose to use the English Idioms book in a few of my lessons to see how it can be used and if in fact using it was a benefit to my lessons. I also, as a language student, studied the Spanish idioms book.