LINGUISTIC INVESTMENT

Two years ago, I went to Ireland with a travel company because I wanted to do a linguistic investment. I have to say that it was a really good experience but, the problem was that I shared the trip, the classes and all the activities with people from Catalonia and Spain, so we spoke almost all the time in Catalan or Spanish.

So this is what brings me to talk about traveling into another country. I love traveling, and I think I repeat it in almost every post I do, but when my parents said that I would go to Ireland I was really exciting.

At first I thought it would be difficult to integrate into the group because I was traveling alone, but everybody was super kind and there wasn’t any problem for meeting new people.

Using Ireland experience as a reference, I would like to repeat it again, but I would change something. I would like to travel alone and without any company, I mean, going in a foster family and feeling the obligation to speak all the time in English. I think this is the best way to improve my English and maybe I can meet people from that country (if it’s possible, from USA, my dream destination) and get in contact with them, having the opportunity to travel again to the country and having the chance to offer my house to them, to bring them into my country and share with them all we have here. In other words, carry out an exchange.

It is possible that my obsession to travel and meet new experiences has led me to really want to find a job in which I can travel a lot and meet people from every country. I like to listen about different life and learning lots of worthy things we don’t appreciate here, seeing different points of view, and open my main to become more creative and innovative.

Concluding my text, I would say that do an exchange could be interesting if you travel completely alone, or if you make sure that you aren’t going to talk in your native language with those who are going to travel with you. And in my opinion, the best option is to be in a foster family, because there isn’t any other way to communicate with them than speaking English. And finally, you must choose a place you know you would like to visit, because getting out and discovering the city you can learn a lot of vocabulary and colloquial expressions which, after all, make your English more authentic.