#study spanish abroad

[k12academics]

Intensive and conversation-focused Spanish courses with a strong cultural immersion for all ages and levels, offered at two school campuses (beachfront and city) - both can be combined, small classes (max. 6 students), free cultural activities, volunteer program, optional weekend trips (extra charge)

#study spanish abroad #spanish immersion school #spanish immersion #costa rica #k12 academics

[mainfaggot]

i literally cannot escape the clutches of the spain spanish accent. this is thee third time someone has told me it sounds like i studied in spain

#thats flattering in a way sure like ok i sound fluent to u nice whatever but SPAIN. #i tried to get rid of the el seseo so hard but it's stuck thanks to watching spain spanish shows and mimicking them as a 15 yr old #last semester i was literally trying so hard to copy my colombian professors accent only for my chilean prof this sem #to ask me “did u study abroad in spain for a while? u use all their expressions and the accent is surprisingly strong!” NOOOOOOOOOOOOO #this is all elites fault. #z.post #*i just realized i wrote “the el seseo” thats just the the seseo anyway the lisp thing thats whay im referring to

[drewsaturday]

i always find it hard to be happy for people accomplishing things that are... very clearly something i could also have done with the right support or a few less obstacles stacked against me, and i know that kind of makes me a bitch bc other people work hard too and other people are struggling with things i don't know about, but it's really just depressing to me more than anything that i can't even Try.

#txt #me as an exclusively online student due to disabilities and childcare = i cannot participate in most of the #opportunities that come along with college #and yet i still have to get emails from a student society i am only able to be in bc it has 0 participation requirements #congratulating other students on their huge accomplishments when like. sure maybe those people did work really hard #but being able to LITERALLY GET THEIR FOOT IN THE DOOR OF THE COLLEGE PHYSICALLY PROBABLY HELPED KLl;ksdf #and so many of those opportunities are also things i cannot do. like becoming fully funded to study abroad for #being accomplished in a frankly basic foreign language. #give me a couple weeks to regain my spanish (or even latin idk) and i would easily be eligible except oh wait! i can't travel #and i can't go on campus to be an Upstanding Student Doing Extracurriculars because. i can't be on campus. #and 90% of those extracurriculars are in-person. and i still have to hear about them anyway. #i am grateful i can do college at all. i would just like to stop receiving emails about things i cant do and people i cant be lol

[casa-xelaju]

Easter’s Beautiful Flower Carpets in Xelaju

It has been a tradition in the city of Quetzaltenango to create amazing handmade “alfombras” or carpets of sawdust on some of the main streets in the city before the processions walk during Good Friday. Faithful Catholics start working the day before on the carpets. It is an event that brings thousands of people from all over Guatemala and other countries in the world.

Photos www.casaxelaju.com & www.cx.edu.gt

#guatemala #quetzaltenango #spanish immersion program #study spanish #visit guatemala #study abroad #xela #study abroad guatemala #studyspanish #spanishschool #viernes santo 2024 #viernes santo #semanasanta2024 #semanasantagt #semanasanta #holy week quetzaltenango #easter 2024

[ctrl-esc]

i will say education does have its merits like the time i learned “alemania” meant germany in spanish class and then later that day danced with a guy at the club who was from germany and used alemania in convo. i was like woahh ijust learned that word in my 9am and he was like what (he could not hear me)

#learning language is cool! #i feel like im finally picking up spanish enough to sort of get by at cafes and restaurants #like im definitely nowhere even near beginner level but ive improved a lot #my goal is to listen in on tea spills in cafes and be able to understand #x #study abroad

[angryborzois]

Oh shit there's actually no way

#angryborzois rambles #so theres a study abroad scholarship program that i applied for back in november #we just got back the results of my application #while i didnt get my first choice country which was botswana #i got my second (or third i dont remember) choice which was germany #and apparently i qualified for the scholarship to cover around 95% of the fees (it's different for every person) #no wayy #im excited but also extremely scared lol #im mostly worried that i wont be able to keep up with the lessons #ik this program is supposed to be friendly with people who have no prior experience with the language but german is pretty difficult.... #and i say this as someone who tried to teach themself german during middle school #im done for. #okok but being taught by an actual person and in the country itself must be different from self-study so i should be fine.....right????? #and at least i know some basics right??? #im stressing so hard #i'd cry if the other people who signed up for this program were all actually students already taking german as their foreign language class #meanwhile me taking spanish...💀 #i have roughly 3 months ill just study in preparation until then 😭😭😭 #gotta make sure i dont look stupid when i go

[wtfcl0ud]

a baby (15 or 16 year old) daughter of a family friend who is also interested in pursuing french tertiary level said she doesnt want to go to france bc they dont like black ppl which ok understood BUT then she said she wants to go to switzerland instead and uh can i please be the one to tell her. also while i do agree tht france like all of europe is racist the thing is france is not only the hexagon? and esp as caribbean ppl like why dont u say u wanna go to Martinique or Guadeloupe or even one of the french DOMs in africa or ex french colonies tht still speak french in africa etc. im not saying france isnt racist but in terms of places to go for immersion imo it has some of the best offers among the european languages for poc bc u dont need to go to europe but myb tht's just my misguided n erroneous opinion. there's also literally canada.

#cloud nonsense #like ive literally nvr thought i want to go to france? #n im annoyed the exchange or study abroad programs we hv no longer allow for the caribbean countries bc i wld go there! #the thing with spanish is tht a lot of latam face their own racism issues #n for french im not saying u wont xp discrimination n even still racism outside of the hexagon #but saying france is racist so i wanna go to another european country is from the pot to the fire or whatever #again at least imo

[yoursirengirlfriend]

going to try and be serious about improving my German and Spanish this year and mb mandarin

#really wanna sign up and study abroad this year #plus i miss learning and speaking German and Spanish

[roaminandtumbln]

📍Reales Alcázares de Sevilla, Sevilla, España. 26 de julio de 2019.

#travel #travelblr #viajera #espana #spain #sevilla #Seville #alcazar #real alcazar de Sevilla #architecture #Spanish #spanish culture #royal alcazar of Seville #study abroad

[solarismp3]

Can anybody recommend entertainment channels or pages or movies just anything where they speak Spanish plzzz I need to practice for my exam in December

#txt #if I choose to go study abroad on my 5th semester I have to write 3 assignments in español 😭😭😭😭 #i have to practice so bad #i can speak it fine like I understand a lot but I suck at writing I keep writing in Portuguese #when I watch anime I put Spanish subs but I can’t read fast enough and I’m dyslexic soooo

[k12academics]

Intercultura is a language and cultural center devoted to achieving linguistic proficiency in the context of cultural immersion and intercultural education. We seek to cultivate global awareness, empathy, cross-cultural and empowered communication skills through the sharing of cultures and languages. Our program aims not just to teach a new language, but to give participants effective tools to implement responsible change as they learn to navigate, understand and respect the constantly evolving and diverse culture of our world.

#volunteer programs #study spanish in costa rica #study spanish #spanish #language school #immersion spanish #cultural activities #study spanish abroad #spanish immersion school #Spanish immersion #costa rica

[catsyearabroad]

sunday 24 sep

21:06 - my room in bilbao

yesterday i went for a walk around Casco Viejo. i did end up walking quite a lot further (up to the Basilica Begona and back) but it was a really nice day and a really nice walk. i keep meaning to try out the metro, but i feel like i'll miss out on so much above ground if i do. and besides, my legs work perfectly well and probably carry me faster than the metro could.

today was too warm to really do a lot. i managed to sign up for a gym so i headed there this morning since it was only open 9-2 on a sunday. i did know before coming that most places stay closed on a sunday, but it still took me by surprise a little bit.

another thing that is weirding me out is the sunrise. the sun setting at 8 doesn't exactly bother me - that's just how things are - but the sun not rising until 8? even in the dead of winter in the uk, i can't remember a time when the sun wasn't up by about 7:40. and that's in january!! it's only september now!! i am a naturally early riser, but the fact that the sun isn't is not particularly inspiring. i understand that it's due to the time zone switch made during the second world war but man. i will just have to get used to it.

tomorrow i will hopefully have my first german lesson. i don't have two of my lessons on my timetable, so i'm still trying to figure that out. i'm meeting one of the girls from manchester on tuesday for a drink, so i might be able to ask her?

feeling: tentative

#language #spilled thoughts #study abroad #studyblr #spanish

[broke-on-books]

Where are my friends that are highly, highly passionate about the same things I'm passionate about

#i say this like im literally not going to the first language growth club meeting tomorrow 💀 #and wasnt literally texting and talking w my friend in spanish earlier #but in my defense my advisor sent out an email abt study abroad and fellowship opportunities for foreign language (barely any id apply for #bc freshman) and not my body is just ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⭐️🌞🌟🌞🌞☀️🌝🌛🌞🌛⚡️⚡️⚡️🔥🔥🔥🌝🌞☄️🌟🌛🌡🌛🌡🌛🌛🌝🌛 🌞🌟🌤🌞🌞🌞🌜🌞🌞🌛🌞🌟🌞 insid #like aaaaagggghgghhhhhhhhhh #where are my crazy enablers. 😭😭😭😭 #out here saying that like it isnt so much better here than in high school #like i have friends that speak my tl and WANT to speak it!!!! #weve had full conversations at one point we only spoke spanish for like 2 hours in the room and then on the bus and then getting dinner like #!!!!!!!!!!! it was sooooooooo fun. best day ever #ahejahsuabdajdushdhshdhr #anyways. i just need to take a walk or smth. im feeling the equivalent to the zoomies lmao but just for like. talking abt how much i love #learning foreign language. so we just need to breathe or whatevs. i can 100% do that and be normal rn for real #for real. #blah

[casa-xelaju]

Cortejo Procesional, Justo Juez – Parroquia de San de Dios de Quetzaltenango.

Men (Cuchuruchos) and women (Dolorosas) participate in solemn processions carrying enormous wooden floats with the sculptures of Jesus and the virgins during Easter week (Semana Santa) in Xela, Guatemala.

Thousands of worshipers and tourists from all over the world come to observe.

Video: www.casaxelaju.com & www.cx.edu.gt

#guatemala #quetzaltenango #spanish immersion program #study spanish #visit guatemala #study abroad #xela #study abroad guatemala #studyspanish #spanishschool #visit quetzaltenango #viernes santo 2024 #viernes santo #semanasanta2024 #semanasantagt #semanasanta #holy week quetzaltenango #holy week #easter guatemala #easter 2024

[robertogreco]

Sinéad O’Connor’s performance at the Amnesty International Concert in Santiago de Chile, October 13, 1990

In 1990, I was a foolish 19-year-old who’d made a very lucky decision, one that came through an ongoing search for both escape and the path of least resistance, the themes of my life at the time. That same decision led a to numerous life-changing experiences, including one that brought me to a live Sinéad O’Connor performance. As an aging person, I think a lot about the past, but I have also been thinking about this all again with O’Connor’s death last week. RIP. (I appreciate the writing that Allyson McCabe has done about O’Connor, a good start being “Appreciation: Sinéad O’Connor was right all along,” “Why Sinéad O’Connor refused to be silenced,” and “Sinéad O’Connor Was Always a Protest Singer.” While I haven’t read it, I suspect that McCabe’s book Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters is very good. I also recommend Amanda Hess’s 2021 “Sinéad O’Connor Remembers Things Differently.”)

As a teen, I had really wanted to spend a year in another country and I didn’t want it to be an English-speaking one – that seemed to me as too similar to be worth the hassle. But I hadn’t really planned well and then needed to scramble to meet the two-year language requirement by signing up for Spanish classes too advanced for my level. Spanish was the only language other than English I’d ever really spent much time with and so it was my only real chance of getting there. I then applied for only one study abroad program, a newly formed one in Valparaíso, Chile. The choice was easy because as a program created at my university it meant the financial aid I was receiving for attendance at the university would apply to the total cost of the program, which even with airfare included ended up being a bit less than regular semesters on campus, and there was a guaranteed transfer of credits upon completion of the program.

My familiarity with Chile, its culture, its history, and its political situation was pretty much non-existent. Less than five months before my arrival, Patricio Alywin, the first post-dictator president, had taken in office. This was the result of the 1988 plebiscite. A lot was changing (and a lot wasn’t) in Chile and the same applied to me. I was finally open to learning in a way that I hadn’t been for years, the direct result of the informal learning inherent in an immersion program. And I was eager to experience as much as possible. One of the benefits of learning a new language can be that you are forced to speak less and listen more. I listened a lot and I learned a lot. I went places, walking and riding the bus all around Valparaíso and Viña del Mar. I didn’t travel far aside from a trip to La Serena and El Valle del Elqui with my host family and a trip to the south at the end of the semester, but I did frequently go to a few nearby places along the coast and into the interior of the Región and occasionally visited Santiago. Two months after I arrived, some classmates and I went to the Amnesty International concert “Desde Chile... un abrazo a la esperanza” (here’s an LA Times article on the concert) in the National Stadium there, the same stadium that had been the site of imprisonment, torture, and murder at the hands of Pinochet and his men. That’s where I saw Sinéad O’Connor just as you can see in the video above. Several artists played too: Luz Casal, Inti Illimani, Wyton Marsalis, Jackson Browne, Rubén Blades y Sesi de Solar, Sting, and Peter Gabriel.

By then, all that I had heard and read started to make more sense (the language too), and it began to transform me and change my perspective on the world. At the end of that year, I was in Puerto Montt and other areas of Southern Chile, and I distinctly remember arguing against the USian buildup to what would eventually become the Gulf War. I can’t imagine I’d arrived at that conclusion, among many others, if it weren’t for the series of events that had led up to me being there.

#Sinéad O’Connor #Chile #1990 #cv #Youtube #travel #learning #education #informal #informal learning #study abroad #Spanish #language

[boomerang109]

my ability to concoct insane class schedules because i am committed to the idea that i will graduate with three minors is frankly insane

#truly losing it out here #‘what if i just did two study abroad three week programs’ #BESTIE THOSE ARENT FREE WHAT ARE YOU ON #(but like…imagine if I did the Spanish one in argentina and the science one in Australia…it’d be so cool) #lowkey mad tho cause I had everything figured out based on doing one lab in the winter AND ITS NOT A LAB #so either I have to do a non-study abroad lab or i have to do it during the semester which is what I’ve been trying to avoid :(( #BUT I think I might do that so I can drop my Spanish class and take a writing class this semester 🤔