Year-round programs are also available for adults and elderhostelers. Located in northern Minnesota near Bemidji, the Language Villages operates in year-round culturally authentic facilities for five language sites. Concordia Language Villages is sponsored by Concordia College of Moorhead, Minn., a private four-year liberal arts college. Core Values Immersion is the key for successful learning at the Villages. Because language learning is so carefully programmed into all aspects of the immersion experience, drawing on all the senses, it becomes a real part of villagers' lives and thoughts.
Villagers learn by doing.
Whether they're eating, singing, playing a game or an instrument, creating a craft, or conversing with a native speaker, villagers are constantly surrounded by the language and culture of the country. Simulations play a major role in giving villagers the opportunity to experience historic events and situations in international affairs that affect world peace. Examples have included world religions, children's rights, and tolerance. Comfort with the language, open-mindedness and awareness of world citizenship are core values taught at Concordia Language Villages. Villagers learn these important values daily, bit by bit, experience by experience.