I’ve written a post about my intent to be a DNV in some small city in Spain, but my Spanish is not even 5-year old level. To solve that, I’m currrently looking for language schools in my country, so I can at least have some basic understanding of Spanish/Catalan and maybe not appear like a tourist the whole first year in such a beautiful country.
Anyone else who wanted to learn the language of the country they’re going to? For those who didn’t, what was the experience like? Did you eventually learn their native language?
I see you’re Filipino. If you’re moving to Spain, already knowing Philippine languages is an advantage as you already have a good chunk of the vocabulary down. What you need to master is more the grammar of the language, which formal instruction will help. Also, you will need to learn Spanish if you eventually intend to apply for Spanish citizenship.
That said, when you move here your Spanish will improve, especially as Spaniards are notoriously bad at foreign languages (case and point: one of the trainers at my gym is my age, meaning of the generation of Spaniards that learn foreign languages in school, and he admits his English is so bad he can barely speak it). This is regardless of how fluent in the language you are, as I moved to Spain with a fairly strong command of Spanish yet I still learned a lot after two years of living here.
Consider joining Facebook groups like Spanish for Filipinos or even the sub I admin, r/IslasFilipinas, if you want to find other Filipinos to speak Spanish with.