Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)

The experience was at first hindered by the fact that a lot of people would speak Galego in social settings. As the year progressed, however, rather than see this as a hinderance, I chose to see it as an opportunity as not only did I leave Spain with much better Castilian, I had learnt the basics of their local language too! In terms of lessons, it wasn't too bad, and the Spanish for foreigners lessons were a constant reminder what we were all there for, i.e. to learn Spanish!!

I arrived in Spain with a lot of grammatical knowledge, but not a ton of experience with conversation. I left Spain with a higher confidence level when speaking with natives and I could easily use many slang phrases.

I spoke pretty good Spanish before I got there. I was able to polish it up in Spain and wrote an honors thesis in Spanish literature, in Spanish, for which I graduated Cum Laude.

If you are interessted in learning the spanish language or you want to improve your spanish then Santiago is highly recommended above cities as Barcelona, Madrid etc.

Galician Spanish is pretty pure, but there is defintely a influence from the regional language which is Gallego. You can get by with no problems with basic Spanish.

At first I was ashamed not to express myself correctly but I tried to speak and meet local people and I progressed a lot!Go ahead!!