Languages Reviews
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Gabriela C
Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish
How much did you improve your Spanish?
My level before: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
My level after: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
At first I wasn´t able to undersand very well what the teachers were talking about or my Spanish collegues, so I had to make an effort to cope with this, but because I was taking a Spanish course, soon it was no problem. It was very interesting learning in another language.. overall, it was pretty good and in the end there were no problems for me in this field of communication
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Conal B
Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish
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
The jump from studying the language to living the language was huge. Even though I have a spanish A level I would have been lost without attending two intensive courses, one in the summer beforehand and the other in the first few weeks of term.
Making the effort to avoid speaking English and "ERASMUS spanish" helped me improve a great deal.
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Mary P
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Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
How much did you improve your Spanish?
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Personal comments
Having studied Spanish during my undergraduate degree, I had good written skills prior to my year in Spain. I had however a lesser level of oral competency, which my year in Spain allowed me to raise to the level of fluency. Although this was sometimes a challenging experience it was thoroughly worthwhile, both socially and academically.
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federica p
Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish
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
I study spanish and latin american literature so the most important thing was to improve my spanish as better as possible, for this reason I chose to live with spanish people only, the exeperience was great as well as at university where I learnt academic spanish and where I leart writing academic works in spanish
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christinowski
Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish
How much did you improve your Spanish?
My level before: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
My level after: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
it's generally easy to get to talk to Spanish people which gives you the chance to improve your language quickly.
Languages/ Philology at uni are often taught in the language, i.e. French literature in French, which seems a good idea to me but which to consider if you're keen on being taught in Spanish.
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the_raisenator
Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish
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
I had a reasonable level before going to spain so i was quite confident in using the language. An intensive language course was a great help at the start of the year. By the end of the year I felt confident in my ability to speak and communicate in Spanish in any situation.
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