Living in Spain will force you to learn a lot of new things just to get by, and give you daily exposure to the language. My wife and I lived out in the country and relied on carpooling with fellow teachers to get to our schools, which provided about 45 minutes every day of sharing a car with native Spanish speakers — the perfect captive audience! Aside from class time, most of our interactions in the school were in Spanish. I can’t guarantee that experience everywhere, but in our school, most of my colleagues weren’t jumping at the opportunity to practice their English, so I was able to practice Spanish with colleagues every day. Being able to speak Spanish with your colleagues every day is probably pretty common, but not universal. I have heard some auxiliares are expected to help teachers practice by using English all the time while they’re at school.
Discovering An Abundance of Street Art In China
Finally, after procrastinating and putting it off for multiple months while I’ve been back in Canada, I dug out my old hard drive that…