Immersion, immersion, immersion! Sadly, I never learned the amount of Spanish I had hoped to while volunteering in Chile but now in Guatemala, I’m more than making up for it. Staying with a Spanish speaking family is the best possible immersion you could hope for and great fun, too. My Spanish[...]
Posts Tagged ‘language immersion’
September 15th, 2009 - 4:03 pm § in Tips & Resources, Volunteer
Yo No Hablo Español
Let’s say you’ve always had an interest in visiting Latin America. You’d like to travel in Ecuador, study in Mexico, work in Brazil, volunteer in Panama. Only one problem seems to stand in your way: you don’t speak Spanish or Portuguese. Or French, Quechua, Aymara, Nahuatl, Creole, Papiam[...]
