About my an experience.Malta. I spent this autumn on Malta. It's very small country in The Mediterranean Sea. I went to Malta to study English and chose the school EC for this.I stayed there for 2 months. At first I was in elementary level but in week when I adapted changed my level for pre-intermediate.I was alone as Russian in my group. I spoke only Russian language for two months. In three days from starting speaking I was very tiered from English language) and I wanted to speak Russian a lot)) but I didn't do it wittingly.The most hard for me was listening to collocutors and understanding their) I understood I have a small vocabulary(( Now I'm working on it. All in all I learnt about 500 words for my trip. It's a lot or a little? But I know these word, I remember them till now) And my passive words became active.It's good to me. I lived in apartment of school. There were not Russian people too) I think I was lucky) A teachers. One teacher of my group was Maltese,the other was from England.But third teacher changed every week.All lessons were very funny, we joked a lot...And in such form we understood and memorized words very easy. In next year I woud like come back in Malta (or may be in England) to prepare to IELTS. Thank you for your attention)