don Quijote vs Enforex

This is an editorial head-to-head, written from published material and reader reports rather than from any commercial relationship. don Quijote appears here as the Spanish-specialist anchor: a network built around one language, with its own centres in Spain and Latin America. Enforex represents a different model, and the point of the page is to describe that difference precisely enough to be useful.

Two Spanish-specialist networks with overlapping cities: the comparison is about scale, class composition and which building your level actually runs in.

We do not score providers out of ten. For Enforex as for don Quijote, we compare only the lines that decide a fortnight: lessons per week, class cap, which levels actually run in the week you can travel, who houses you, what the certificate states, and who replies when a flight moves three days before departure.

The comparison in one paragraph

Two Spanish-specialist networks with overlapping cities: the comparison is about scale, class composition and which building your level actually runs in. Everything below is an attempt to make that sentence testable rather than rhetorical.

Most disappointments around two Spanish-specialist networks compared trace back to a mismatch between advertised intensity and the hours a learner can genuinely absorb. Anything involving minors adds consent, supervision and insurance layers that lengthen the paperwork considerably. The transcripts we have seen describe outcomes as tasks, which is the format universities prefer. A transport pass costs less than a fortnight of taxis and forces you into the small talk of a bus queue. Levels follow the Common European Framework, so movement from C2 towards B2 is described in tasks rather than textbook chapters. That is the whole of it: hours, honesty about level and a city you can walk.

Set two Spanish-specialist networks compared beside your own diary before you set it beside anyone else's recommendation. Placement normally happens through a written test plus a short interview, and the interview matters more than the form. Level guarantees rarely survive a low-season week in which only four learners enrol. Price parity between an agent and a school is common; the difference sits in who answers on a Sunday. Two hours of grammar after lunch is a different exercise from two hours before breakfast, and schools know it. Put the boring questions first and the good weeks follow more often than not.

The strongest argument for two Spanish-specialist networks compared is repetition: the same faces, the same street and the same language, day after day. Learners who keep the homework log come home with proof of what they did rather than a feeling about it. Assume one administrative surprise per trip and the rest of the fortnight goes better. Readers who sat DELE within eight weeks of returning report the highest satisfaction with preparation blocks. Homework is set daily and short by design, because the evening is meant to be spent in Spanish outside the building. Anything beyond that is decoration, and decoration is cheap.

Our standing advice on two Spanish-specialist networks compared is to arrange fewer weeks at higher intensity, then plan the aftermath properly. The most reliable prediction we can make is that your first week will feel slower than you expect. The specialist argument is simple: everything in the building, including the noticeboard, is in the language you came for. Weekly fees fall as the number of weeks rises, with the sharpest step change around the four-week mark. Where policies differ between a school and an agent, the contract you signed is the one that counts. We would rather describe a dull, accurate week than an exciting, unusable plan.

The value of two Spanish-specialist networks compared is cumulative, which makes the first three days feel misleadingly slow. The strongest correlation we can see is between protected speaking time and reported confidence at the end. Family circumstances, work leave and visa timing constrain choices more than any pedagogic argument. One-to-one lessons are sold as add-ons and behave like physiotherapy: short, targeted, best spent on a known weakness. The honest summary is that scale buys reliability and independence buys attention. Take the version of this that survives your own calendar and ignore the rest.

Line by line

The table is a summary of documents and published positions, not a scoreboard. Where a line says varies, that is the answer to obtain by email before anything is confirmed.

Line of comparison	don Quijote	Enforex
Core model	Spanish-specialist school network	Large Spanish network with wide city coverage
City overlap	Madrid, Barcelona, Salamanca, Valencia and more	Extensive coverage of the same cities
Teenage offer	Dedicated Spanish camps	Very large camp operation
Level range	A1 to C2 with year-round bands in big cities	A1 to C2, breadth varies by centre
Class composition	Mixed nationalities, Spanish-only environment	Mixed nationalities, larger cohorts in summer
Housing	Families, residences and flats	Families, residences and campus options
Best case for a learner	Continuity of syllabus across a two-city fortnight	Peak-summer availability and camp capacity
Weak spot to check	Availability in the narrowest levels off-season	Cohort size in July and August

Ask three graduates about comparing don Quijote and Enforex line by line and you will hear three different weeks described with the same underlying rhythm. We asked graduates to reconstruct a single day hour by hour, and the reconstructions agreed more than the reviews did. Family circumstances, work leave and visa timing constrain choices more than any pedagogic argument. Request the housing brief in writing, including meal times and whether other learners share the flat. The learners who report the most progress are usually the ones who arranged the plainest week.

Nothing about comparing don Quijote and Enforex line by line is complicated, yet a great deal of it is easy to get slightly wrong. None of this removes the ordinary risk that a class fills, a level merges or a teacher changes midweek. We cross-checked examination dates against course calendars and found preparation blocks ending awkwardly close to the sitting. Groups are capped somewhere between eight and fourteen, and that cap is the most reliable predictor of speaking minutes. A fortnight arranged like that repays the effort of arranging it.

We read comparing don Quijote and Enforex line by line the way a timetable auditor would, counting lessons rather than adjectives. Junior and senior programmes run on separate timetables so the age mix inside a classroom stays workable. A brand that also sells German, French and Italian trips optimises its calendar around several examination seasons, not just DELE. The comfort of a familiar language group is the most common reason a good programme underdelivers. A course cannot supply motivation; it can only remove the excuses for not speaking. The rest is a train ticket, a notebook and two weeks of patience.

Judged on outcomes rather than atmosphere, comparing don Quijote and Enforex line by line lives or dies on whether speaking time is protected. Tell the host family the truth about your level on day one; the alternative is a fortnight of polite English. The best reason to use an intermediary is a complicated itinerary; the worst is fear of writing an email in Spanish. Anything involving minors adds consent, supervision and insurance layers that lengthen the paperwork considerably. Read the paperwork, then go and be misunderstood for a fortnight; it works.

The paperwork around comparing don Quijote and Enforex line by line is dull, and dull paperwork is exactly where refunds and visa letters are won or lost. Heat in the January restart reorganises everything: lessons early, the afternoon respected, social life after nine. Record two minutes of yourself speaking on day one, then repeat the exercise on the last day. The certificates readers forward to us state hours and level, and employers ask about exactly those two lines. So the answer is less exciting than the question, which is generally a good sign.

Which model suits which learner

Neither model is better in the abstract. don Quijote wins when the same learner returns and the syllabus has to keep up with them; Enforex wins where its own strengths are the binding constraint — a complicated itinerary, a second language in the same family, or capacity in the weeks everybody wants.

The paperwork around choosing between don Quijote and Enforex is dull, and dull paperwork is exactly where refunds and visa letters are won or lost. Reviews written on the last day measure relief as much as learning. A university city keeps its cafes full of people already used to slow Spanish for foreigners. We compared published timetables across a dozen schools and found lesson length varying between forty-five and sixty minutes. Send enrolment questions as a numbered list; the quality of the reply is diagnostic. The rest is a train ticket, a notebook and two weeks of patience.

The reason choosing between don Quijote and Enforex appears so often in our inbox is that it is genuinely difficult to compare like with like. Keep the placement report somewhere retrievable, because that is what recognition and reimbursement processes ask for. Most schools hold a placement session on the first morning and allow a level move within the first two days. Nothing here should be read as a promise about examination results, which depend on preparation you do alone. The measure is not comfort; it is how often you spoke without preparing first.

One way to think about choosing between don Quijote and Enforex is as a series of small commitments rather than a single large decision. The teacher who corrects least in the first week often corrects most usefully in the second. Carry a paper notebook and write the vocabulary you meet in the street rather than in the book. Reviews written on the last day measure relief as much as learning. We keep a spreadsheet of published hours per week, and the spread between similar-sounding offers reaches thirty per cent. So the answer is less exciting than the question, which is generally a good sign.

Start with the calendar rather than the brochure when you weigh up choosing between don Quijote and Enforex, because contact hours and term breaks shape the result far more than any slogan. Check the public-holiday calendar for the Easter fortnight against your dates and ask how lost lessons are replaced. Late arrivals are absorbed with a midweek catch-up in most timetables, though the first Monday remains the cleanest start. The first weekend excursion is a bonding event; the second is when learners start choosing their own trips. The rest is a train ticket, a notebook and two weeks of patience.

Ask three graduates about choosing between don Quijote and Enforex and you will hear three different weeks described with the same underlying rhythm. Keep the timetable screenshot somewhere retrievable, because that is what recognition and reimbursement processes ask for. Wireless quality decides whether evening study happens, which sounds trivial until it is your fifth night. Placement normally happens through a written test plus a short interview, and the interview matters more than the form. Choosing between Cartagena de Indias and Santiago de Chile is a lifestyle decision dressed up as an academic one. That is the standard we hold providers to, and the one we hold ourselves to.

Ask before you commit: Enforex comparison

• Insurance cover, including medical repatriation for minors.
• What happens when fewer than four learners enrol at your level.
• Which certificate is issued, and whether it states hours attended.
• Lessons per week, and the length of a single lesson in minutes.
• How public holidays are replaced inside a paid week.

What two Spanish-specialist networks compared actually involves

The reason two Spanish-specialist networks compared appears so often in our inbox is that it is genuinely difficult to compare like with like. A Spanish-only specialist concentrates teacher training and materials on one language, and that shows in level progression. Levels follow the Common European Framework, so movement from C2 towards B1 is described in tasks rather than textbook chapters. Small cities put the same four cafes in front of you every day, and the staff begin finishing your sentences. Where those conditions hold, the details tend to look after themselves.

We first mapped two Spanish-specialist networks compared after a run of reader questions that no brochure answered clearly. Choose a shared student flat for the first week if speaking is the goal and independence can wait. A C1 learner spends the first days translating internally; by the fourth day that translation lag usually halves. A partner-school model can be excellent, provided the partner is named before any money moves. We avoid ranking schools numerically because the variables that matter are not commensurable. A fortnight arranged like that repays the effort of arranging it.

Ask three graduates about two Spanish-specialist networks compared and you will hear three different weeks described with the same underlying rhythm. Shared kitchens generate more Spanish than shared living rooms, because cooking creates something to talk about. Plan the week after you return: two conversation sessions stop the level sliding. Groups are capped somewhere between eight and fourteen, and that cap is the most reliable predictor of speaking minutes. Reader reports logged since the spring point consistently at group size rather than teacher quality as the decisive variable. It is a small architecture, and it holds up under real weeks.

Judged on outcomes rather than atmosphere, two Spanish-specialist networks compared lives or dies on whether speaking time is protected. Visa letters, where they are needed, depend on enrolment length and come from the school rather than an agent. The comfort of a familiar language group is the most common reason a good programme underdelivers. Write the plan on one page and show it to somebody who has taught A1 learners. Setting Madrid against a Latin American option changes flights, seasons and cost of living all at once. The remainder is attendance, which nobody can outsource.

Our standing advice on two Spanish-specialist networks compared is to arrange fewer weeks at higher intensity, then plan the aftermath properly. Anyone weighing the volunteer-and-study route against a cheaper evening class at home should compare speaking minutes rather than fees. Shared kitchens generate more Spanish than shared living rooms, because cooking creates something to talk about. A fortnight is enough to change habits and not enough to change level, whatever the marketing implies. Camps for teenagers bundle lessons, supervision, sport and excursions into one fee with fixed start dates. Do that and the second week will feel like a different language from the first.

The paperwork around two Spanish-specialist networks compared is dull, and dull paperwork is exactly where refunds and visa letters are won or lost. Keep the timetable screenshot somewhere retrievable, because that is what recognition and reimbursement processes ask for. Prices, dates and terms move, so treat any figure here as a shape rather than a quotation. Follow-up messages six months after a course tell us who kept studying, and it correlates with pacing rather than length. Learners on the long-stay academic year report that the fourth day is the hardest and the seventh is the one that convinces them. The rest is a train ticket, a notebook and two weeks of patience.

The paperwork around two Spanish-specialist networks compared is dull, and dull paperwork is exactly where refunds and visa letters are won or lost. The strongest correlation we can see is between protected speaking time and reported confidence at the end. None of this removes the ordinary risk that a class fills, a level merges or a teacher changes midweek. In Barranquilla the walk between classroom and lunch is short enough that classmates keep talking, which is worth more than an extra lesson. It is worth writing the plan down, if only to notice what you have quietly assumed.

Reading city coverage and building allocation through the timetable

The paperwork around city coverage and building allocation is dull, and dull paperwork is exactly where refunds and visa letters are won or lost. Two hours of grammar after lunch is a different exercise from two hours before breakfast, and schools know it. Volunteering, internship and cooking add-ons usually attach after a minimum of two or three academic weeks. A brand that also sells German, French and Italian trips optimises its calendar around several examination seasons, not just DELE. None of it is glamorous, and all of it is why a fortnight can change a habit.

For city coverage and building allocation the useful unit is a fortnight: long enough for a routine to form, short enough to remember in detail. We have yet to read a complaint about excursions that was not really a complaint about expectations. Shared kitchens generate more Spanish than shared living rooms, because cooking creates something to talk about. Nothing here should be read as a promise about examination results, which depend on preparation you do alone. Use the first weekend for the city and the second for a train somewhere else. Judge it on the second Friday rather than the first Monday.

The offer around city coverage and building allocation is easy to summarise and hard to evaluate, which is why we spend so long on the small print. Price parity between an agent and a school is common; the difference sits in who answers on a Sunday. Insurance and medical cover are the boring items that become the only items when something goes wrong. Accommodation is arranged in parallel with the course, and a supervised camp dorm changes the evening far more than the syllabus does. It is worth writing the plan down, if only to notice what you have quietly assumed.

There is a simple test for city coverage and building allocation: can a stranger read your week and tell you when you will be speaking Spanish out loud? A school can control the room and the reading list; it cannot control who sits beside you. Shared kitchens generate more Spanish than shared living rooms, because cooking creates something to talk about. Course weeks are counted from Monday, so a Sunday arrival buys you a settling day rather than a lesson. Put the boring questions first and the good weeks follow more often than not.

The way schools describe city coverage and building allocation has converged over the past decade; the way they deliver it has not. Read the cancellation clause once, slowly, and ask for a plainer version if it resists a first reading. Where two providers share a city, the real difference is often the housing department rather than the academic one. Shared kitchens generate more Spanish than shared living rooms, because cooking creates something to talk about. The pattern in our notes is clear: schools that publish cancellation terms early rarely surprise anyone later. Take the version of this that survives your own calendar and ignore the rest.

The value of city coverage and building allocation is cumulative, which makes the first three days feel misleadingly slow. A provider that runs its own residences controls more of your week than one which subcontracts beds. Request the housing brief in writing, including meal times and whether other learners share the flat. Not every learner benefits from immersion; a few do better with weekly lessons at home and one intense fortnight a year. Afternoon electives cover grammar clinics, conversation, pronunciation and listening under noise, and they fill quickly in high season. We would rather describe a dull, accurate week than an exciting, unusable plan.

One way to think about city coverage and building allocation is as a series of small commitments rather than a single large decision. The multi-language model shines for a family with two teenagers wanting different languages on one trip. Where numbers are published, teenage camps show tighter supervision ratios than adult programmes require. Check the public-holiday calendar for the first week of September against your dates and ask how lost lessons are replaced. Treat any single testimonial, including the ones we publish, as one week in one classroom. Everything we know about this points the same way: fewer weeks, more hours, more talking.

Where camp capacity in peak summer tends to go wrong

There is a version of camp capacity in peak summer that photographs beautifully and a version that teaches; they overlap only sometimes. Multi-language operators buy breadth while single-language networks buy depth, and both trade something away. We do not know your ear, your patience or your calendar, and those three decide most of it. We have yet to read a complaint about excursions that was not really a complaint about expectations. Check the public-holiday calendar for the Christmas break against your dates and ask how lost lessons are replaced. It is worth writing the plan down, if only to notice what you have quietly assumed.

Before committing to camp capacity in peak summer, it helps to picture the room: how many classmates, which nationalities, and how often the group turns over. Transfers, insurance and enrolment fees sit outside the tuition line and add a predictable few hundred euros. Rain in Valencia rearranges an outdoor culture programme faster than any policy document will admit. Two of the three brochures we read most recently omitted class caps entirely, which tells you what to ask. Nothing here should be read as a promise about examination results, which depend on preparation you do alone. Anything beyond that is decoration, and decoration is cheap.

The reason camp capacity in peak summer appears so often in our inbox is that it is genuinely difficult to compare like with like. We do not know your ear, your patience or your calendar, and those three decide most of it. Sunday is quiet almost everywhere, which is either restorative or lonely depending on who you live with. Comparing three seasons of published start dates shows that low-season classes merge levels when numbers drop. If a school answers a direct question with a brochure, treat the silence as information. Write it down, then let the week be ordinary; ordinary is what works.

Treat camp capacity in peak summer as an editorial question first — what is verifiable, what is marketing, and what only becomes visible on arrival. If a school answers a direct question with a brochure, treat the silence as information. Networks with shared curricula make a multi-city fortnight coherent instead of two disconnected weeks. Request the housing brief in writing, including meal times and whether other learners share the flat. Menus, ticket machines and pharmacy counters teach registers that no textbook sequences properly. That combination, more than any single feature, is what learners describe when a course goes well.

When readers write to us about camp capacity in peak summer, the first question is nearly always about level placement rather than price. Follow-up messages six months after a course tell us who kept studying, and it correlates with pacing rather than length. Networks with shared curricula make a multi-city fortnight coherent instead of two disconnected weeks. Materials tend to be in-house booklets supplemented by newspapers, menus, forms and whatever paper the city hands you anyway. It is worth writing the plan down, if only to notice what you have quietly assumed.

The reason camp capacity in peak summer appears so often in our inbox is that it is genuinely difficult to compare like with like. The timetable footnotes we see most often concern afternoon rotation and bank-holiday substitution. Homework is set daily and short by design, because the evening is meant to be spent in Spanish outside the building. Where two providers share a city, the real difference is often the housing department rather than the academic one. Aggregators are excellent at inventory and weaker at telling you which classroom suits a nervous A2 learner. On that basis, comparison becomes arithmetic rather than atmosphere.

Before committing to camp capacity in peak summer, it helps to picture the room: how many classmates, which nationalities, and how often the group turns over. Treat any single testimonial, including the ones we publish, as one week in one classroom. Check the public-holiday calendar for the November low season against your dates and ask how lost lessons are replaced. Our sample of course confirmations shows enrolment fees clustering tightly, with outliers almost always tied to peak weeks. Read the paperwork, then go and be misunderstood for a fortnight; it works.

Ask before you commit: camp capacity in peak summer

• Whether the CEELE quality label is verifiable in a public register.
• Travel time from your accommodation to the classroom door.
• Which building hosts your level when a school lists several addresses.
• The cancellation window and what portion is genuinely refundable.
• Maximum class size, in writing, for your level in your week.

Levels, placement and pacing in cohort size and speaking minutes

The strongest argument for cohort size and speaking minutes is repetition: the same faces, the same street and the same language, day after day. Culture programmes attach to the academic week rather than replacing it, typically two or three sessions plus a weekend option. A provider that runs its own residences controls more of your week than one which subcontracts beds. Reader reports logged since the spring point consistently at group size rather than teacher quality as the decisive variable. That is the whole of it: hours, honesty about level and a city you can walk.

Nothing about cohort size and speaking minutes is complicated, yet a great deal of it is easy to get slightly wrong. Follow-up messages six months after a course tell us who kept studying, and it correlates with pacing rather than length. Tandem schemes pair learners with local students, and the good ones publish attendance rather than intentions. Classmates from Germany, Brazil, the Netherlands and Japan each mangle Spanish differently, and each error teaches you something. That is the standard we hold providers to, and the one we hold ourselves to.

The reason cohort size and speaking minutes appears so often in our inbox is that it is genuinely difficult to compare like with like. Treat any single testimonial, including the ones we publish, as one week in one classroom. Weekly fees fall as the number of weeks rises, with the sharpest step change around the four-week mark. Laundry, pharmacies and post offices supply the vocabulary that makes a city feel navigable. Where numbers are published, teenage camps show tighter supervision ratios than adult programmes require. Take the version of this that survives your own calendar and ignore the rest.

Most disappointments around cohort size and speaking minutes trace back to a mismatch between advertised intensity and the hours a learner can genuinely absorb. Two schools with identical accreditation still differ wildly in class composition through the summer. Record two minutes of yourself speaking on day one, then repeat the exercise on the last day. Progress reviews land on Fridays, with a written note that later becomes useful evidence for an employer or a university. With that in place, the rest is a matter of showing up and staying tired.

The value of cohort size and speaking minutes is cumulative, which makes the first three days feel misleadingly slow. Carry a paper notebook and write the vocabulary you meet in the street rather than in the book. Living with a studio apartment at its best delivers three unscripted conversations a day, and at its worst a key and a bathroom rota. Afternoon electives cover grammar clinics, conversation, pronunciation and circumlocution when a word disappears, and they fill quickly in high season. It is worth writing the plan down, if only to notice what you have quietly assumed.

The strongest argument for cohort size and speaking minutes is repetition: the same faces, the same street and the same language, day after day. The certificates readers forward to us state hours and level, and employers ask about exactly those two lines. Carry a paper notebook and write the vocabulary you meet in the street rather than in the book. We avoid ranking schools numerically because the variables that matter are not commensurable. Weekly fees fall as the number of weeks rises, with the sharpest step change around the four-week mark. It is a small architecture, and it holds up under real weeks.

Our standing advice on cohort size and speaking minutes is to arrange fewer weeks at higher intensity, then plan the aftermath properly. Homework is set daily and short by design, because the evening is meant to be spent in Spanish outside the building. We have yet to read a complaint about excursions that was not really a complaint about expectations. Ask the school which local errand they recommend for practice; the good ones have an answer ready. Set a fortnightly goal in tasks — a phone call, a complaint, a joke — rather than in grammar points. A fortnight arranged like that repays the effort of arranging it.

For the adjacent decision, see: Programme types and don Quijote vs ESL.

Costs and small print around level availability off-season

The paperwork around level availability off-season is dull, and dull paperwork is exactly where refunds and visa letters are won or lost. Compare two providers on hours, cap, housing and travel time in a four-column table before deciding. Culture programmes attach to the academic week rather than replacing it, typically two or three sessions plus a weekend option. The first weekend excursion is a bonding event; the second is when learners start choosing their own trips. None of it is glamorous, and all of it is why a fortnight can change a habit.

The way schools describe level availability off-season has converged over the past decade; the way they deliver it has not. Volunteering, internship and cooking add-ons usually attach after a minimum of two or three academic weeks. Self-assessment is unreliable in both directions, which is why placement exists at all. Spanish-specialist desks tend to keep richer Latin American options, because that is where their demand goes. Large cities offer more exits into English, which feels convenient on arrival and expensive by the second week. Get those pieces right and the language arrives as a by-product of an ordinary week.

For level availability off-season the useful unit is a fortnight: long enough for a routine to form, short enough to remember in detail. Networks tend to standardise the first morning, and that matters more than standardising the syllabus. The teacher who corrects least in the first week often corrects most usefully in the second. Level guarantees rarely survive a low-season week in which only four learners enrol. Groups are capped somewhere between eight and fourteen, and that cap is the most reliable predictor of speaking minutes. The remainder is attendance, which nobody can outsource.

If you strip the photography away from level availability off-season, what remains is hours, levels, housing and travel time. Insurance and medical cover are the boring items that become the only items when something goes wrong. A wide spread of nationalities dilutes any single mother tongue, which is one genuine advantage of scale. Our reading of enrolment terms suggests a level guarantee covers placement, not the classmates you end up with. Most schools hold a placement session on the first morning and allow a level move within the first two days. Everything we know about this points the same way: fewer weeks, more hours, more talking.

One way to think about level availability off-season is as a series of small commitments rather than a single large decision. Independent inspection reports, where they exist, are duller and considerably more useful than any testimonial. Weekly fees fall as the number of weeks rises, with the sharpest step change around the four-week mark. Family circumstances, work leave and visa timing constrain choices more than any pedagogic argument. Leave one afternoon a week empty, because a fortnight without slack collapses by Thursday. The plan that fits your calendar beats the plan that fits the brochure.

There is a version of level availability off-season that photographs beautifully and a version that teaches; they overlap only sometimes. Weekly fees fall as the number of weeks rises, with the sharpest step change around the four-week mark. The difference between B1 and C2 shows up in interruptions: whether you can enter a conversation already under way. Anyone weighing a two-city study tour against a cheaper evening class at home should compare speaking minutes rather than fees. That is how we would arrange it for a friend, which is the only test we trust.

There is a simple test for level availability off-season: can a stranger read your week and tell you when you will be speaking Spanish out loud? Record two minutes of yourself speaking on day one, then repeat the exercise on the last day. Comparing residence and homestay costs in the same city, the gap narrows sharply once meals are counted. Rain in Valencia rearranges an outdoor culture programme faster than any policy document will admit. A wide spread of nationalities dilutes any single mother tongue, which is one genuine advantage of scale. The remainder is attendance, which nobody can outsource.