Learning languages: Language school

I am going to talk about the things I do to learn English and I would like to start with the first thing I did: study English at school.

When I was younger I studied English in primary and in secondary school, even in the university. I studied it because I chose it during one course as an optional subject. I always passed the exams but I never learnt English. This is the consequence of taking classes without practicing speaking or listening, we only had to remember vocabulary and some grammar rules. Thanks to the educational system in Spain, languages weren't important enough to be taught properly at school. Fortunately, it seems that this is changing nowadays.

After traveling a bit around the world and working for an international company, I realized the value of languages. Really, that was something I always had known, but this time I had to do more another step so I finallyenrolled in the official school of languages of my city. 

I have been studying at the language school for three years and I guess I've learnt a lot. I've improved my English skills, but specially I feel more confident and I've lost fear of speaking or making doing mistakes. Of course, learning languages involves more work to do (not only going to school, it's not enough!), and I'll write about that another time.