Getting involved with campus life activities is a great way to learn the language. Being at class on time and keeping a study routine also helps greatly. Beware of getting too carried away with your travels. ACA participants are students first and tourists second. By the end of the year ACA students will be reaping the result of intensive language study applied in their everyday life and travel.
Students get out of the year what they put into it, both scholastically and socially.
By having been adaptable and open to new ways, they have learned a lot about the culture of their host country. Classes climax with finals. In Europe students take an exam organized by an outside institution to test their level of competence in the language. There are written and oral parts to these exams.