Learn Spanish in Spain

I won’t deny that learning Spanish is fun —I studied for a month splitting my time between Barcelona and Seville before travelling around Spain visiting Salamanca, Granada, Valencia, Madrid, San Sebastian and Tarifa where the kitesurfing was awesome and I didn’t hear a word of English.

I started Spanish lessons as a beginner, not a complete beginner as I’d listened to Spanish CD’s and had a few Spanish lessons back in the UK (6 weeks at night school) but it was only when I got to Spain that my Spanish really started to accelerate at a pace that surprised me as I didn’t realise just how much you pick up when studying in a country where Spanish is spoken as you really do practice each day outside of the classroom. Even if my confidence wasn’t that high to start with, by the end of week 1 I felt I’d almost reached lower elementary level of Spanish as I’d been immersed in the language, I’d read road signs, ordered in cafes and heard nothing but Spanish for the whole week and something was starting to click – the feeling was fantastic and a great confidence booster.

I no longer cared about looking silly when I got things wrong, I just had a go at speaking Spanish and you know what – most of the time I was understood even if I did get a few funny looks to start with!  If you learn Spanish you have a chance to get a more intimate look at Spain.

Taking a Spanish course in Spain opens up a world of opportunities and promises to get you off the tourist trail where you can immerse yourself in the culture in a way that’s just not possible if you don’t speak Spanish.  I lived with a Spanish host family which was great, I didn’t feel ‘mothered’ at all and was free to come & go as I pleased and my Spanish vocabulary improved no end as you are forced to speak daily and ask for even just the basics like towels and ‘pass the salt’ – practical
Spanish all the way not to mention the amazing insight you have into life and culture living as a local.

Accents change as does dialect from region to region but all Spanish language schools in Spain teach Castilian Spanish (even in Barcelona – no Catalan is taught at all) so you don’t have to worry about where you learn Spanish in Spain although it can be fun to split your Spanish courses across different locations to experience life and different accents which will really help improve your Spanish.

Rest assured, Spanish courses are suitable for beginners to advanced Spanish learners. Everyone is tested (don’t worry, there’s no gold stars or dunce hats here) on the first day before Spanish lessons start so they can be placed in the right group for their level and will then progress rapidly but safe in the knowledge that their fellow classmates are at a similar Spanish level to them. Levels are generally as follows:

•         Complete beginner Spanish courses
•         Beginner Spanish courses
•         Elementary Spanish lessons (split into lower & upper)
•         Intermediate Spanish lessons (split into lower & upper)
•         Advanced Spanish courses (suitable for advanced levels of Spanish up to fluency level)

In a month, I felt like I’d progressed my Spanish from a beginner to upper elementary and was raring to go on my travels, confident I would be able to get by in day to day situations as well as being able to read and write Spanish at a reasonable level if I ever needed to.My confidence soared, I fell in love with learning the Spanish language and soaked up new words and phrases every day without trying as my brain was now switched into ‘learn Spanish’ mode.

Learning Spanish is liberating, I felt like I was invited into the culture and countries I visited and no longer did I feel like ‘just a tourist’ and that can’t be bad.

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