Studying English in Spain A long time ago I studied English at the high school. I had lessons several hours per week for four years. The odd thing about this is that I did not learn anything useful. This is because the lessons were only about grammar rules. To pass the exam you only have to apply rules to a set of words. It was a pity that I studied so much time English and when I had to have a trivial conversation with an English spoken person I could not understand anything! I thought today the teachers are better in my country and they also teach you to communicate. I also think that the possibilities to use Internet to listen English or even speak it, for example, with Italki is great, and makes it possible to improve English better than before.