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Study and Work Programs offer an excellent opportunity to study English and gain valuable work experience in Canada. There are several options available: Casual work in the city or in a resort, Professional work (paid/unpaid), and Farmstay / Ranchstay work experience. All these programs include two components: studying at inlingua Vancouver first and then participating in the placement. We will help you find a rewarding work experience where you will have the opportunity to speak English with Canadians in a real environment.

We offer 6 options for the Study and Work programs: 

1. Self Placement Program (DIY)
2. Casual Work Experience – City (CWE-C)
3. Casual Work Experience Program – Resort (CWE-R)
4. Career Development Program (CDP)
5. Student Internship Program (SIP)
6. Combined Placement Program (CPP)

plus our FarmStay / RanchStay program.

You can download a complete description to all our Study and Work Programs (Introduction in Japanese) in one PDF file here.

How to Apply to the Study and Work programs

To register in the Study and Work programs, contact one of our Agents or Representatives in your city or contact us directly for more information.

Complete the inlingua application form along with the CWE - Casual Work Experience application form or the CDP - Career Development Program / SIP- Student Internship Program / CPP - Combined Placement Program Application form and email it to us at   or fax us at +1 604 484 2424.

For the CWE, CDP, SIP and CPP inlingua Vancouver is partnered with Vancouver Internships.

For complete fees of our Study and Work programs, remember to add the tuition and accommodation fees, plus the cost of the work program you choose. Please see our Prices section.

1. Self Placement Program (DIY)

Self Placement program: Do it yourself! You will look for and arrange your own job, after taking our English lessons and learning how to complete your résumé, prepare for the interviews and go job hunting.

Here are the basics of the program: 

• Self Placement: You will arrange your own job in order to practice your English. Most students find jobs in the service industry in cafés, coffee shops, restaurants, supermarkets, retail shops or labour and seasonal positions in downtown or the Vancouver metropolitan area. Other students go to tourist resorts or hotels
• Minimum Duration: 12 weeks (plus 12 weeks or more of study)
• Maximum Duration: 32 weeks (plus 32 weeks or more of study)
• Age Limit: Effectively 19-45
• Education Requirement: None
• Experience Requirement: None – though it is recommended that students be able-bodied. If the student has a physical disability, he / she might find it difficult to find a job and succeed in this program
• Language Requirement: Intermediate English and above
• Placement areas: You will arrange your job, so you can decide to stay in Metro Vancouver or move to another city
• Registration: You will need to have a study permit and obtain a work permit in order to participate in this program. Students on a regular visitor visa can not participate in this program. Plan in advance and apply for a study permit if you want to consider participation in this program. 

Study and Work: You need to study for a minimum of 3 months and then the work experience will be for the same period of time.

Compensation: Minimum wage in the province you choose to live in. Normally, it will be 8 to 10 Canadian dollars per hour. Most students find jobs and work for a minimum of 25 hours per week.

Costs: Total cost of 400 Canadian dollars. It includes the work permit, résumé and cover letter preparation, interview preparation and workshops.

Students can upgrade from this program to other program once they are in Vancouver by paying the difference, as long as they meet the other program requirements.

The following programs are offered in partnership with Vancouver Internships an excellent work placement coordinator in Canada.

2. Casual Work Experience – City (CWE-C)

The CWE gives students the chance to live and work in Canada, to earn money to partially subsidize their stay and to improve their English in a real-life context. Students will work in unskilled casual positions around Metro Vancouver. Jobs are normally in cafés, coffee shops, restaurants, supermarkets, retail shops or labour and seasonal positions in downtown or the Vancouver metropolitan area. This program is ideal for young students and flexible participants willing to practice their English with workmates or clients.

Here are the basics of the program: 

• Minimum Duration: 12 weeks (plus 12 weeks of study)
• Maximum Duration: 52 weeks (plus 52 weeks of study)
• Age Limit: effectively 19-45
• Education Requirement: None
• Experience Requirement: None – though all students must be able-bodied. If the student has a physical disability, they should not register for this program
• Language Requirement: Intermediate English and above
• Placement areas: Zone 1 and Zone 2 in Metro Vancouver
• Registration and placement timeline: 8 weeks – students must be registered 8 weeks in advance of their start date, in order to be guaranteed an on-time placement

Study and Work: You need to study for a minimum of 3 months and then the work experience will be for the same period of time.

Compensation: 8 to 10 Canadian dollars per hour. You will work for a minimum of 25 hours per week.

Costs: Complete Plan in the City, for Casual Work Experience – City: Total cost of 1100 Canadian dollars. It includes the work permit, résumé and cover letter preparation, interview preparation and arranging your job interviews in the service positions.

Students can upgrade to this program or from this program to other program once they are in Vancouver by paying the difference, as long as they meet the other program requirements.

3. Casual Work Experience – Resort (CWE-R)

Your work experience can also be in housekeeping at tourist resorts, specially in the winter and summer seasons in beautiful places such as Vancouver Island, Banff, Rockies, BC Interior, Whistler and Muskoka (summer only).

This program gives students the chance to travel and work in Canada, to earn money to partially subsidize their stay and to improve their English in a real-life context. Students will work in unskilled casual positions at hotels in Western Canada.

Here are the basics of the program: 

• Minimum Duration: 12 weeks (plus 12 weeks of study)
• Maximum Duration: 52 weeks (plus 52 weeks of study)
• Age Limit: effectively 19-30
• Education Requirement: None
• Experience Requirement: None – though all students must be able-bodied. If the student has a physical disability, they should not register for this program
• Language Requirement: Intermediate English and above
• Placement areas: Vancouver Island, Rockies, BC Interior, Ontario Muskoka (summer only)
• Jobs: Housekeeping at the resort
• Registration and placement timeline: 8 weeks – students must be registered 8 weeks in advance of their start date, in order to be guaranteed an on-time placement.

Study and Work: You need to study for a minimum of 3 months and then the work experience will be for the same period of time.

Compensation: 8 to 10 Canadian dollars per hour. You will work for a minimum of 25 hours per week.

Costs: Complete Plan in the Resort, for Casual Work Experience – Resort: Total cost of 750 Canadian dollars. It includes the work permit, résumé and cover letter preparation, interview preparation and arranging your job interviews in housekeeping positions at the resorts.

Students can upgrade to this program or from this program to other program once they are in Vancouver by paying the difference, as long as they meet the other program requirements.

4. Career Development Program (CDP)

The Career Development Program (CDP) is possible in 4 different areas:

• Information Technology,
• Office Administration,
• Hospitality Management
• Engineering (Electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering)

This is an ideal program for professionals who want to practice their English in the professional Canadian labour market.

Here are the basics of the program:

• Minimum Duration: 24 weeks (plus 24 weeks or more of study)
• Maximum Duration: 52 weeks (plus 52 weeks of study)
• Age Limit: effectively 21-45
• Education Requirement: A degree or career-related certificate or diploma is required.
• Experience Requirement: 2 full years of recent related experience.
• Language Requirement: Advanced English and above
• Placement areas: Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3 in Metro Vancouver.
• Registration and placement timeline: 12 weeks – students must be registered 12 weeks in advance of their start date, in order to be guaranteed an on-time placement.

Study and Work: You need to study for a minimum of 6 months and then the work experience will be for the same period of time.

Compensation: You will receive a stipend (subsidy) of around 250 Canadian dollars per week or 1000 Canadian dollars per month. You will work 40 hours per week, on average.

Cost: Total cost of 1400 Canadian dollars. It includes the work permit, résumé and cover letter preparation, interview preparation and arranging your job interviews in the companies, in professional positions according to your education and experience

Students can upgrade to this program once they are in Vancouver by paying the difference, as long as they meet the other program requirements. 

5. Student Internship Program (SIP)

This program is our most broadly focused and most highly specialised program. This is unpaid, professional-level internship. The program offered to international students is the same offered to Canadian university students. Because of the program’s flexibility, we are able to take students with no experience, and little education, and even lower level of English for general admin placements. While we can also take students who specialize in something very technical or very obscure and find placements directly related to what they do.

Here are the basics of the program:

• Minimum Duration: 4 weeks (plus 4 weeks or more of study)
• Maximum Duration: 16 weeks (plus 16 weeks or ore of study)
• Age Limit: effectively 19-45
• Education Requirement: In general, none. Specific fields may have education requirements
• Experience Requirement: In general, none. Specific fields may have experience requirements
• Language Requirement: Lower intermediate English and above
• Placement areas: Zone 1 and Zone 2 in Metro Vancouver. City of Toronto.
• Registration and placement timeline: 4 weeks – students must be registered 4 weeks in advance of their start date, in order to be guaranteed an on-time placement.

Placement Options: Placement options in the SIP are divided by ‘field’. Here is a sampling of only some of the available fields:

• Accounting
• Architecture
• Arts and Culture
• Biology / Biotechnology
• Business Administration
• Communications
• Computer Science
• Culinary
• Engineering
• Events
• Fashion
• Film
• Finance
• Graphic Design
• Green Technology
• Hotels
• Human Resources
• International Trade
• Law
• Marketing
• Project Management
• Real Estate
• Social Media
• Sport Management
• Youth Summer Camps

The internships are possible in many professional areas, except those regulated by licences (medicine, law among others).

This program is ideal for professionals who want to practice their English and learn about the professional labour market in Canada, and don’t have as much time available, or their profession is not in the list for the CDP Career Development Program.

Study and Work: Students need to study for one month minimum and then the internship will be for the same period of time.

Compensation: There is no economic compensation. You will work on average 40 hours per week.

Cost: Total cost of 750 Canadian dollars. It includes the work permit, résumé and cover letter preparation, interview preparation and arranging your job interviews in the companies, in professional positions according to your education and experience.

Students can upgrade to this program or from this program to other program once they are in Vancouver by paying the difference, as long as they meet the other program requirements.

6. Combined Placement Program (CPP)

An alternative to the unpaid Student Internship Program (SIP) is the CPP Combined Placement Program in which a student will work for 4 or 5 hours in the morning in a professional internship without compensation and then will go to a service job in the afternoons / evenings with a salary per hour. The CPP mixes a semi full-time SIP placement (20-30 hours per week) and a part-time CWE-C placement (12-16 hours per week), allowing the student to do professional work, while also earning money to subsidize their stay.

Here are the basics of the program:

• Minimum Duration: 16 weeks (plus 16 weeks or more of study)
• Maximum Duration: 52 weeks (plus 52 weeks of study)
• Age Limit: effectively 19-45
• Education Requirement: In general, none. Specific fields may have education requirements
• Experience Requirement: In general, none. Specific fields may have experience requirements
• Language Requirement: Lower intermediate English and above
• Placement areas: Zone 1 and Zone 2 in Metro Vancouver.
• Registration and placement timeline: 8 weeks – students must be registered 8 weeks in advance of their start date, in order to be guaranteed an on-time placement.
• Placement Options: Jobs and positions are the same as the SIP and CWE-C programs described before.

Important: Students are not able to make choices of CWE-C workplaces in the CPP. They will be assigned to the nearest available workplace (of any type) to their SIP placement.

Costs: 1250 Canadian dollars. It includes the work permit, résumé and cover letter preparation, interview preparation and arranging your job interviews in the companies, in professional positions according to your education and experience and also your job interviews in the service positions.

FarmStay / Ranchstay Program

Farmstay and ranchstay programs can provide you with a friendly and comfortable environment where you can learn more about Canadian culture and the English language. You will have the opportunity to make new friendships by living and working on a Canadian farm in British Columbia. The program includes accommodation and all meals.

This program requires minimum one month of lessons at inlingua Vancouver with our exclusive conversational method, in addition to the actual Farmstay / Ranchstay program. This program takes place in British Colombia, from the majestic Rocky Mountains to Vancouver Island.

Participants must be willing to collaborate a maximum of 5 hours per day, 5 days per week. Often visitors extend their work time to enjoy different farm activities. Host families provide a room and food and a welcoming environment to participants. There is usually one student per farm / ranch. Flexibility is required from participants as each farm / ranch offers different possibilities and the time of the year also determines the type of work.

Because the Winter can be very cold, the program runs in Spring, Summer and Fall. Winter placements are not possible.

• Students will practice their English in a real environment, without teachers or students, and by working and helping Canadian farmers, students will speak more and more. That is the objective of the work experience.
• It is always unpaid. No salary is offered and students should not ask for it or expect it.
• Farm houses are not luxury or elegant places. Students will have a private room in most farms and share the other areas of the house with the family members.
• Before the work experience, students will take an English course at inlingua Vancouver. The duration of the English course can be a minimum of 4 weeks and there is no maximum duration. Then the farmstay duration will be for minimum 6 weeks and maximum 24 weeks, but it should finish by the end of October.
• Because temperatures are very cold in the winter and in the beginning of the spring season, the farm/ranch stay programs start in April, the earliest, and should finish by the end of October, the latest. The best time for the ranchstay / farmstay program is the summer season, from July to September.
• This program is for students who have a background in the agricultural industry or want to experience the countryside in Canada.
• Students need to have an open mind and a desire to live the experience day by day, understanding that a farm is a farm and their lifestyle will have some limitations and comfort should not be expected.
• Students will work and live with the family and their duties will be related to what they do and need in the farm.
• Students are expected to work between 5 and 8 hours per day and in most farms there is no work in the weekends.
• The kind of farm determines the amount of hours of work, and if during the placement process the applicant indicates to our coordinator that he/she only wants to work a certain amount of time per day, or a limited number of days, then that will be considered but not guaranteed.
• Farmstay is a lot of hard work at times. Students work like any other member of the farm. Farms are family operations. So the father, mother and usually their adult kids work there and do most of the work. They all divide tasks.
• If the student has experience with the machinery that the farm utilizes, then the student is offered more and more responsibilities.
• We always avoid placing students in a farm where he/she could be in danger, although the nature of the work involves some risk, and the student will sign a waiver before starting the experience.
• Some farms are tourist places that especially during the summer offer accommodation and activities to tourists. In these farms, the student works and helps with all kind of tasks. Students need to be flexible and service oriented.
• Many farms also have cattle and horses and other animals. Looking after the farm animals is an important task that students will have.
• Because of the distances in British Columbia and Canada in general, students should not expect to be close to Vancouver. Their travelling time will be anything from 1 to 12 hours, so they will live in the farm during all their Farmstay.
• Normally, life in the weekends will be relaxed, close to a small town, enjoying the local traditions.

Requirements for the Farmstay / Ranchstay Program

1. Registration at inlingua for at least 6 weeks, in any program of study plus 6 weeks of Farmstay / Ranchstay
2. The duration of the Study component can be longer than the duration of the Farmstay / Ranchstay component, but not the opposite
3. Minimum age: 18 years old
4. Must have completed inlingua level 2A (intermediate) or higher
5. Apply at least 6 weeks in advance
6. Provide clear information about the objectives and goals to be obtained through the Farmstay / Ranchstay program
7. Participants can come to Canada under a Tourist visa (visitors) or a Student Visa (study permit). A work permit is not necessary as there will be no compensation.
8. For all immigration purposes, Farm Stay is not considered work but a component of a Language Program

Please click here to see the Farmstay / Ranchstay DISCLOSURE, details and application form in PDF format.

How to Apply to the Farmstay / Ranchstay program

To register in the Farmstay / Ranchstay program, contact one of our Agents or Representatives in your city or contact us directly for more information.

Complete the inlingua application form along with the Farmstay / Ranchstay application form and email it to us  or fax us at + 1 604 484 2424.

For the Farmstay / Ranchstay program, inlingua Vancouver is partnered with SN StudyNet. For more information concerning inlingua’s Farmstay / Ranchstay program, please contact us at .