{"id":9517,"date":"2015-11-23T16:19:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T16:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2015-11-23T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T16:19:55","slug":"practice-english-and-meet-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/practice-english-and-meet-new-friends","title":{"rendered":"Charity provides help to non-English speakers in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>If you&#8217;re keen on sharpening your English skills and meeting new people, a FAN group may be what you need.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9521\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/InterCardiff31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9521 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/InterCardiff31.jpg\" alt=\"FAN charity \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/InterCardiff31.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/InterCardiff31-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/InterCardiff31-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9521 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/InterCardiff31.jpg\" alt=\"FAN charity \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/InterCardiff31.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/InterCardiff31-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/InterCardiff31-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> A FAN group comprised of people from all over the world sharing stories and experiences. \u00a9FAN Charity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Cardiff charity has\u00a0urged international people who want to practice speaking English while meeting new friends to join their meetings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefancharity.org\">Friends and Neighbours (FAN)<\/a> runs group meetings in different places around Cardiff such as Newport, Roath, and Whitchurch where people from all over the world\u00a0sit in a circle, talk, and listen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefancharity.org\">FAN <\/a>is a place where people feel safe when they practice English. As soon as you bring people together to talk and communicate, people become friends, and they share experiences and a commonality across the world; across barriers of language, agenda or religion,\u201d said Sarah Duncan-Jones, the charity\u2019s Development Officer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9532\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/FAN1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9532 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/FAN1.jpg\" alt=\"FAN groups can be found all over Cardiff. Find a group nearest you through their website. \u00a9FAN Charity\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/FAN1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/FAN1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/FAN1-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9532 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/FAN1.jpg\" alt=\"FAN groups can be found all over Cardiff. Find a group nearest you through their website. \u00a9FAN Charity\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/FAN1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/FAN1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/FAN1-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Extra help in learning English is offered when needed. \u00a9FAN Charity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Duncan-Jones emphasized that for every group meeting, an attendee is required to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefancharity.org\">FAN\u2019<\/a>s opening and closing statements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opening statement is our ground rules which we read at the beginning of each meeting. The important part is everybody speaks in turn. When somebody speaks, everybody else just listens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefancharity.org\">FAN<\/a> meetings everyday except Sundays and each session usually lasts for an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The charity was founded 13 years ago to bring together non-English speakers living in Cardiff who felt isolated. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefancharity.org\">FAN<\/a> has had people from 93 different countries since then.<\/p>\n<h5>Find a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/THEFANCHARITY\">FAN group meeting<\/a> near you:<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAN charity encourages international people new in Cardiff to attend their meetings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":9521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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