English village

English village
Entrance to Ansan English village.
Korean name
Hangul	영어마을
Hanja	英語마을
Revised Romanization	Yeong-eo Ma-eul
McCune–Reischauer	Yŏng'ŏ Maŭl

English villages are language education institutions which aim to create a language immersion environment for students of English in their own country.

The concept is run as a commercial venture in Spain and Italy, Poland, Hungary, and is quasi-governmental in South Korea (see below).

The first English Village experience was in July 2001 in Valdelavilla, Soria, Spain.

Valdelavilla has been recreated in cyberspace in the Second Life game, populated by English and Spanish avatars who all have English as a common language.

The first Italian English Village was in Umbria in 2005. The current village is in the Umbria region, in the Tevere valley.

The first Polish English Village program was launched in 2010 by Angloville and has since spread to a four locations in the East and South West of Poland. Both adult and junior programmes are organized.

The second English immersion programme in Poland, AngloBridge, opened in 2016, and courses primarily organised in the South and Centre of the country.

Angloville Hungary was launched in 2014 with programmes branded "language island" organized near Budapest and lake Balaton, plus a summer junior programme near Győr.

Angloville Romania opened in 2015. Week-long language immersion programmes are held in the mountain resort of Bușteni in the Prahova valley, north of Bucharest.

EEC-Anglo has been offering English Village projects since 2006. Intensive residential English programmes are organised in an isolated mountain-top venue near İstanbul