Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 1.9.2000 - 30.4.2001 (sponsored by Dr. D. Tannen)

1 month of a Czech language course in Prague at the Charles University, August 1997

10 months in Edinburgh as a teaching assistant for German in two schools, 1994 - 1995

1 year in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, 1973 - 1974