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France
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Spain
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Advice
The MEMO Survey to track your progress abroad
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The Official pre-Year Abroad Guide
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A dummy’s guide to your Year Abroad
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The Year Abroad Checklist: things your parents/uni/friends will nag you about with good reason!
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Follow the Festivals!
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My tips on keeping a year abroad blog
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Why? Why not! Your Year Abroad fears answered
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France
Taking Stock: a Year Abroad with Depression
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How to make the most of your Christmas holidays
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Mexico
Christmas abroad: The highs and lows
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“Break a leg!”: Expecting the unexpected on your Year Abroad
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Flat-Finding Faux Pas
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Living and working in Spain
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Living and working in France
Advice for future Language Assistants
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Why do we do a year abroad?
by Emily Heath
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Combatting boredom on your Year Abroad
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Pre-Year Abroad Worries
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France
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Keeping career-focused on your year abroad
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Italy
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UK
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by Arthur Reagan
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Can't cook, won't cook: Student cookbooks
by Ben Evans
Exams
Frankie says relax: How to deal with exam stress
by Adam Sears
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Fly me to the moon: How to book cheap flights
by Arthur Reagan
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Which policy's right for me? Student insurance case studies
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Lucky 7: Potential catastrophes & how to cope
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by Tilly Ingleby
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Student Travelling – Basic Tips and Advice
by Ross Fraser
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Winning Year Abroad Advice!
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8 ways to document your year abroad (and make everyone else jealous)
by Tom Stephenson
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The Long Way Down. Bus rides: how to cope
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It's the Final Countdown...
by Natacha Cullinan
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The Year Abroad Checklist
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Keeping in touch on your year abroad
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Your Year Abroad: The Dark Side
by Gina Reay
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A dummy’s guide to your Year Abroad
by Gina Reay
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The 3 Ps Parent rule: Preparation, Planning and Put your feet up...
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When You're Back
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English
Not a linguist?
by Global Graduates
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Speaking the university politics: how to pick where to study your other subjects abroad
by Natacha Cullinan
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What's in your wallet?
by Chloe Hibbert
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World University League Tables
by Global Graduates
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Practice Makes Perfect: language-learning online
by Global Graduates
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Present ideas made easy
by Chloe Hibbert
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2012 and Languages: How can the Olympics work for you?
by Chloe Hibbert
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How to make the most of your Easter holidays
by Natacha Cullinan
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School's out for summer!
by Chloe Hibbert
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The Year Abroad Checklist: things your parents/uni/friends will nag you about with good reason!
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Get a European Health Insurance (EHIC) card
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Year Abroad Blues
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Working: Walking the walk and talking the talk
by Natacha Cullinan
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Unis Abroad: What are my choices?
by Natacha Cullinan
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