In Spain they were still many people who could not understand me because they were not able to speak english at all. So I chose to try to speak spanish. I used to point things and ask "Cómo se dice...?" When we walked on the streets I tried to say as many things as possible at loud. Everytime when I saw a dog I told to my friends if dog was "Perro pequeño" or "Perro grande". The learning process was totally different than how it used to be because this time I was not so scared to make mistakes.
After I came back to Finland I chose that I wanted to learn other language! I wanted to learn how to speak spanish and how that language is working. It was a big decision to make and my family warned how difficult new language would be to me..
But luckly... it was one of the funniest subject that I have ever have. My teacher in spanish was incredible and be in his classroom I learned not only spanish... but also about teaching.
My spanish teacher always explained of us why we made all these practises. So he made everything what he teach to us meanful. Professor Gomez told to us for example that he believes that we are all different kind of learners and that is the reason why he wants to use many different kind of studing methods in courses: we spoke with groups, we write in independently, we wrote essays, we draw pictures, we had plays, we sing songs, we did everything in every possible way. My teacher spoke about interesting topics in spanish with us, but he always make sure that we understood what he was talking. And he also change language to finnish or english when it was necessary. We were free to show all kind of texts what we found in our freetime to him and he always had spanish books or movies to recommend to us. All his lessons were interesting. Believe me or not but even his exams were fun. And when someone made the exam bad he did not ever said; "You need to do it again, because you did not made it well enough". He said; "You can do it again, because I believe that you can do it better". The feeling in the classroom was always nice, fun and comfortable.
My spanish teacher always explained of us why we made all these practises. So he made everything what he teach to us meanful. Professor Gomez told to us for example that he believes that we are all different kind of learners and that is the reason why he wants to use many different kind of studing methods in courses: we spoke with groups, we write in independently, we wrote essays, we draw pictures, we had plays, we sing songs, we did everything in every possible way. My teacher spoke about interesting topics in spanish with us, but he always make sure that we understood what he was talking. And he also change language to finnish or english when it was necessary. We were free to show all kind of texts what we found in our freetime to him and he always had spanish books or movies to recommend to us. All his lessons were interesting. Believe me or not but even his exams were fun. And when someone made the exam bad he did not ever said; "You need to do it again, because you did not made it well enough". He said; "You can do it again, because I believe that you can do it better". The feeling in the classroom was always nice, fun and comfortable.
When I came to home after school I started to find ways how to learn languages by myself. I learned so many new ways to learn and teach while these 4 courses with him.
And my spanish teacher became to be one of these teachers that I see as my rolemodel.
I came to Spain because I wanted to learn more languages. I wanted to practise my spanish and my english. I took courses in english and I took spanish course from Centro de idiomas.
I am sorry to tell that my spanish course has not going so well. My teacher is very nice lady, always smiling and always nice with us. But in Centro de idiomas the studing methods are pretty similar "old-style-methods" that my first teacher used to have. Often my teacher is speaking spanish and I can't understand what she is saying. Sometimes I do not know how to do my homeworks and I feel that I can't express myself in the classroom. It is similar feeling what I used to have long time ago, when I was still scared of using other languages. Even if teacher is very nice in every way.
Well... in the end I am very happy that I chose to come to Spain to study. I have learn so many interesting new things about teaching and I have practised my language skills a lot. I have met new nice people, I have learn how to communicate better and I have had fun. I am very happy for this wonderful opportunity that I had to learn!
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