How fluent can somone be after living for a month in a spanish speaking country?

Question

Im going to go to costa rica this summer to study abroad. Im going to live with a homestay So its going to be constanty immersion in the spanish language, as little english as possible. How fluent will i be after the month? I already know quite a bit of spanish im in spanish 3 at my highschool

I mean i want to be fluent enough for people to take me seriously, and not think im just some 16 year old gringo that pretends to know spanish

Answer 1

As a homestay parent & language teacher, after 4 weeks of full immersion & your age & previous knowledge, I think you should be speaking quite well with some extra vocabulary, too. Enjoy your holiday & stay away from English!

Answer 2

I grew up speaking only English, took 4 years of Spanish in high school and 1 semester in college. I moved to El Salvador last year for 1 year. I knew a lot of vocabulary before and could read and (somewhat) write. Now I'm fluent enough to pass a fluency test to teach in a bilingual classroom. I still have an accent (not strong though) and have a limited vocabulary, but I definitely have enough to get by. So, in one month, you'll pick up some, but if you're not fluent now you probably won't be fluent at the end of the month. You'll start to learn to speak much better, but from what I've seen of English speaking people living in a foreign country for a month, they didn't seem to pick up too much. I'd suggest taking chances and being bold; don't make other people speak and translate for you.

By the way, you're going to a beautiful country! Enjoy it and all the rain!

Answer 3

in case you may take care of to pay for it, by employing all means, do an immersion software in a Spanish speaking usa. you may learn Spanish in a small team, have one-to-one tutoring, and prepare in a house ecosystem. there are a number of classes obtainable. (CEPE, college of Guadalajara is definitely one of them.) in case you p.c. college credit bypass to a minimum of one that is backed by employing a school, like the only i discussed, fairly than a for-profilt language institute (which additionally may well be extra high priced). yet as others mentioned, and in case you won't have the ability to attend to to pay for distant places shuttle, you have a super threat to coach Spanish in Miami. the place I stay, i can talk a super style of Spanish on a on a regular basis foundation, in banks, supermarkets, etc. once you have a decision, like in a food market (the self-checkout), shopper provider telephone line, etc., you may continually p.c. the Spanish language determination. you additionally can volunteer someplace the place you have the possibility to coach Spanish.