Languages - Reviews of Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) | Spain

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Joana F

Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Public Relations / Publicity / Advertising, Graduate, Erasmus

Languages

Language of instruction: Spanish

Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish

How much did you improve your Spanish?

My level before: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
My level after: At ease in most situations

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In Catalonia, the Catalan is the oficial language. I didn't know how to speak Catalan, but all the clases were in Spanish. So I have to thank the teachers that change their mother language to spanish for the erasmus.

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la_harpa

Haskoli Islands, Reykjavik, Iceland
Anthropology, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Languages

Language of instruction: Catalan

Local language was: Different than language of instruction

Was learning Catalan a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my Catalan

Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish

How much did you improve your Catalan?

My level before: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)

How much did you improve your Spanish?

My level before: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)

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In la autonoma catalan is the official language, even though most of my classes were in espanol. But all advertisments and papers from the bourd are in catalan so that factor was sometimes a little hard.

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aoife_ob

Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Business Studies, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Languages

Language of instruction: Spanish

Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish

How much did you improve your Spanish?

My level before: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)

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Didn't realise how much I had learned until I came home. It was a fantastic opportunity, not inly to learn the language, but also non verbal communication and teh cultural side of things aswell.

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joris b

Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Economics, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Languages

Language of instruction: Spanish

Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish

How much did you improve your Spanish?

My level before: Basic phrases
My level after: At ease in most situations

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If you want to learn spanish I recomend one of the courses on the university.. 50 percent discount for erasmus. It forces you to speak spanish and not english like in many eramsus environments..

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Davide C

Universität Freiburg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Communication and Information Sciences, Undergraduate, Erasmus

Languages

Language of instruction: Spanish

Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish

How much did you improve your Spanish?

My level before: Basic phrases
My level after: At ease in most situations

Language difficulties

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Learning Spanish was not that difficult for me because I was already able to speak French and Italian, which is similar. Nevertheless, it was hard to understand catalán.

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anonymous

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Economics, Graduate, Erasmus

Languages

Language of instruction: Spanish

Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my Spanish

How much did you improve your Spanish?

My level before: Did not speak it
My level after: Basic phrases

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Personal comments

I already spoke spanish, so it was not that hard to understand and to speak. The problem was the Catalan language. Now i understand the catalan, but i hardly speak it.

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