I had also practiced speaking it with a WH Smiths language course - complete with cassettes tapes (this was in a pre-Duolingo age). Many of our readers move countries with their children and believe that - unlike them - their children will find the challenges of learning a new language relatively stress free. There were also some interesting side effects of not being fluent in the language the teachers were using. But living in Spain wasn't just about the ups and downs of learning a new language, everything about it was a great adventure. I went back to school in the UK when I was nearly 11, around the time most British children start learning a foreign language - at my school it was French.

Source: The Local July 19, 2019 06:11 UTC