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Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
How much did you improve your Spanish?
My level before: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
its recomendable to search for a language-school outside the university, too, because the course in universitiy includes all levels in one class. really good and cheap is the ecuela oficial de idiomas (institution of the ministry of education), courses of 3-4 months, 50 euro!
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
telefone: to call germany is expensive!
nightlife: i went out almost every day
accomodation: i had a room, in munich i live in an apartment
travel: i only did mini-voyages, for weekends..
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Telephone, Nightlife:
was more expensive than at home.
Food, Travel, Overall:
was the same price as at home.
Housing:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
take as much money with you as you can, you will never ever have a time like that again in your life! do everything you can to know that country, travel in other cities, go to all the museums an sightseeing-spots, shop´til you drop and eat more than only bread and "nutella"!
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Academic
Course recommendations
if you don´t need a course especially for your studies at home, choose what you are interested in and what is not offered at your home-university. i f.e. chose photography and international relations, wich is not an "urgent" thing for me to study for getting credits, but it was so interesting and something i never could do at munich.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
more "intercambio" with local students
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My opinion of the university assessment
Exams throughout the course
Essays and/or projects at the end of course
Essays and/or projects throughout the course
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Overall
I wish I had known...
that i wpould need more time and money to travel
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
dont trust in the help of the office for foreigners, do your own stuff and get all paper while you are still there - they wont send you nothing...
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
Met people from other countries
Experienced a change in life
Advanced my studies & career
Final comments
it is sooooo usefull if you are capable of the language arriving in the country. if not, you cant follow the courses, it costs you too much time to traduce and make take notices, and its hard work to learn for the examens.
you learn a lot there, and if you allready have basic knowledge in the language, you might already bring it to perfection...
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Student life
Describe host city:
Students interact with the local community without much university involvement
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Nightlife, Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Activities: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
"priscilla" in chueca (barrio en madrid), most of the people are gay, they now how to party there! generally, chueca is a graet neighborhood to go out, also is la latina. don´t miss to sip a cool caipirniha in one of the bars, for example bar "yesterday" in the center (hard to find, but it is worth to seek...)
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Housing
Type of housing: flat with 3 ohter girls (spanish and french)
Arranged by: Independently - My choice
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
i´d like to have contact with students, but it was quite impossible. so, if you live with them, might be a lot easier..
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Personal comments
i lived with a spanish, a french and a german girl. so i spoke pretty much german, wich isn´t really helpfull for learning spanish, but otherwise, it can help you if you feel disappointed or sad, just to talk with someone in your language. like for everything in the world, there are advantages and disadvantages in living with a student from your country. but what is absolutely necesary is living with someone from the host-country: it helped me a lot!!
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