<p>I have a free semester after fall of the upcoming school year and am planning on studying spanish in spain in a language school. I will be taking spanish I and hopefully spanish 2 before I go. How fluent will I become in around 5 months? Anyone else please share your experiences with studying abroad and the program you went with if you had a good experience.</p>
<p>Not very. </p>
<p>Language schools are pretty bad for learning languages anyway. The best way is just to live there for a while, maybe get a part time job in a English speaking pub/shop or just go out and meet people.</p>
<p>Hi,
Fluency in any language depends on how much you interact with people. While staying in Spain, go shopping and attending social clubs and interact more with people.</p>
<p>I speak 7 languages (only fluent in 4)… My first foreign language I learned was Italian, I took the first 2 classes at college while teaching myself a lot of vocabulary and grammar, won a scholarship to take another class at a language school in Italy, was there for only a month, and came back fluent. However, when I was there I did not speak a lick of English at all, I hung out with people that only spoke Italian or other languages, so if I didn’t know a word or something I carried a little dictionary in my purse so I could look it up. </p>
<p>I think that if you take the first two classes and then take another in Spain for 5 months, you will definitely come back fluent. But before you go - go beyond what you are taught in the classroom, learn words that you use regularly in English, writing in Spanish about yourself, your life, interests, experiences, etc. will definitely be the best way to learn new words and grammar. But when you are there do not speak any English, find friends that don’t speak English, and I am sure you will be fluent.</p>
<p>Keep in mind though that most Spanish classes taught in America are (Latin American) Spanish and if you are going to Spain, you might want to look into resources online or in books, because the two can differ in a lot of ways … </p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>