Why Meet Makers on your Immersion English Holiday?
At Blue Noun Language Hub, we have a Network of Makers who love to show you their work and studios.
Read this blog to discover why Meet Makers to speak English.
About Perthshire
One interesting aspect for our international language learners (and perhaps unnoticed by the majority of locals) is the unique ways Perthshire makers are in touch with their landscape and heritage.
Perthshire producers represent a fascinating mix of traditional craft and techniques and modern tools. There’s plenty of innovation in the vernacular architecture of repurposing farm & domestic buildings into production units and otherwise adapting to rural life, supplies and seasonal cycles.
What is normal for us is quite extraordinary.
See for Yourself, learning English in Perthshire!
Alternative Scottish Tourism
Do you love tourism that gives an informed experience of a place?
Tourism that doesn’t tell you what to think, but which presents information and experiences – answers questions and shares a passion for the place.
For our second language English users, that’s much more interesting than the usual touristic Scotland cliches that tell just one story of a place.
Of course, there are plenty of folks who are into this, but we are here for the English conversation holiday seekers who are not.
“Are you a tour guide?
No, I’m not. Here’s why.
I’m not interested in visiting places in a tour format, so I don’t share Scotland in a typical tour format.
With tours, you don’t leave a mark.
Scotland doesn’t get to know YOU.
My holidays are about true exchanges. Sharing culture, knowledge, stories…
Yes, it feels like a holiday.
But through it, you’ll feel like you belong speaking English“.
Ruth, 2023
It’s a Genuine Cultural Exchange!
Blue Noun‘s Meet the Maker tours are a two-way conversation.
Our guests are professional internationals with their own research and expertise to share – often in design, marketing and entrepreneurship.
We bring people together for superb conversations.
Often what starts as a maker’s presentation becomes a passionate chat across all kinds of topics.
Each small Perthshire business has a fascinating story to tell about creating, innovating, adapting and selling – and this is the unique experience of ‘Scotland’ that we offer to our English language learners.
Although the makers and spaces are often unseen, their products support regional tourism and put Perthshire on the map internationally for arts, crafts & artisan products and top-quality food produce.
Travel Differently
Professionals travel worldwide to join us at our hub for a week of intensive English practice around cultural themes.
We believe that bringing like-minded people together makes great conversations, friendships and collaborations happen. Language experiences enrich your English – and reset your mindset around English language learning.
Positive Travel
Choose a holiday which delivers positive changes to local ecology and community.
Meet Perthshire Makers to Speak English
The language skills we coach are needed for working in the cultural sector, including presenting artwork/creative practice, pitching design projects, collaborating, applying for international opportunities, making suggestions & recommendations, and expressing opinions.
All of these language skills are practised through our Meet the Makers tours (outside of a classroom and in particularly interesting ways).
‘Behind-the-scenes’ tours are an intimate opportunity to practice professional English language with professional peers, WHILE discovering the landscape and authentic Scottish cultures.
It’s the best of all words – speaking creative industry English language with professional makers, experiencing Scottish culture from within – and of course, tasting and sampling all the unique flavours of Perthshire as you go!
Now you can take OUR English Immersion
on YOUR holiday!
Further Information
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