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An expression of interest

Learn how to write an email to ask for more information and express interest.

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Travel grant

Are you a first-year or second-year student at Central University? Would you like to learn a language this summer?

Central University offers funding of up to £800 each for five students to go overseas and study English, Spanish, French, German or Chinese.* You can use the grant to pay for accommodation, travel expenses and tuition fees.

For more information, email grants@central-university.ac.uk

*Courses must be full time in July or August and for a minimum of two weeks.

From: Merry Yi
To: grants@central-university.ac.uk
Subject: Summer travel grant

Dear Sir/Madam,

I'm writing to express my interest in the summer travel grant that was advertised in this month's university magazine.

I am a second-year student and I am planning to study English in New York for three weeks in July. I would like to apply for the travel grant to help me with my expenses.

Could you please send me further details, including how to apply and when the application deadline is?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Merry

Tips

  1. If you don't know the person's name when writing a formal email, you can start it Dear Sir/Madam.
  2. Your email should have three short main paragraphs:
    1. What you are interested in
    2. Why you're interested
    3. Any questions you have.
  3. I look forward to hearing from you is a good way to close an email if you want a reply.
  4. Regards is a semi-formal, respectful way to end an email. It is common in professional emails too.

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Where would you like to go to study a language?

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Dariusz's picture Dariusz replied on Poland

I would like to study English in UK or the USA because I like this language and there is a core of them.

NickReva's picture NickReva replied on Russia

Dear Sir/Madam.
I would like to visit the UK to study English.
I've never been in England before. No doubt that first place I would like to visit it is London. It is a great and beautiful city!
But I would also like to visit Nether Wallop, it is a small village that played the role of the fiction village St Mary Mead for the TV adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels with Joan Hickson as Ms.Marple.

MaryaSun's picture MaryaSun replied on Italy

Hi love to study languags and i want to improve my english, my french and also my spanish. So i wuold like to go to study in england to improve my englishlanguage; to France to improve my french language, better if it is in Provence, and i wuold like to go to study spanish in neo-latin america.

shahhoseini's picture shahhoseini replied on Iran

I would like learning English and German. Although language learning in the native country is more effective, traveling to these places is so cost expensive.
Since then I am using your excellent website, my English skills have been better and prefer utilizing it.

Maksmatt's picture Maksmatt replied on Norway

I would like to go to France. French is such a lovely language and the food is so good. 25 years ago my wife and I had plans to move to France to live, but it been Norway instead of.

salehisalehi65's picture salehisalehi65 replied on Iran

best language to learning is english and i think the best place to learning first is England and second is america, because you grow up with true accent... i like to study english in london, but no money no fund and cause of all no dream foe present...

aliyazdan's picture aliyazdan replied on Iran

Hello evrybody
I would like to go to a English language country such as England or USA to study English for three month in summer.

Huyen's picture Huyen replied on Turks and Caicos Islands (British Overseas Territory)

I would like to study English in the country using it as its mother tongue. So, I have many opportunities to practice and learn many things.

cittàutopica's picture cittàutopica replied on Italy

I would like to study German, because It'sa a complex language, very fascinating, which has many similarity with Greek and I attended classical high school.

Loc Dang's picture Loc Dang replied on Spain

I think the best way to learn a language is to go to a country where the language is a mother tongue. It is incredibly effective as long as you could practice every day with a correct and conventional manner. Besides, the daily life there would provide you with a deeper understanding of their culture that would be useful in studying a language.

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