Spain: The Right Choice for My Spanish Course Abroad?

If you've decided to take a Spanish course abroad, you need to take a few decisions, and the first is, probably, where you're going to take your course. Many students choose Spain, for many different reasons. And they choose Spain because it has a claim to being the country where Spanish originated and where it is still spoken in its purest form. So, if only for these reasons, Spain just seems the "right" place.

But there are many more reasons for choosing Spain for your Spanish course abroad. You'll find dependable weather in most parts of the country; Spain is safe and it's highly developed; its tourist industry, especially, offers numerous opportunities to visit great monuments, see wonderful sights and visit spectacular countryside; it's beaches are difficult to match; you'll find a friendly, fun-loving and helpful population; you'll find first-class Spanish courses taught by highly professional teachers; and the sports facilities are first-rate, up to the standard you'd expect in a country that tops the world in many different sports...

We could go on, but you probably get the idea. Learning Spanish in Spain, like we said above, just seems the natural thing. Taking into account everything we've said so far, your doubt should be not why to follow a course in Spain, but why NOT to.

But we can foresee a few situations (though not many) where Spain would not necessarily be the best choice for you. Perhaps the Spanish you hear and need to learn is not the Spanish spoken in Spain, but that of one of the nations in Latin America. Spaniards and Latin Americans can understand each other, in the same way as Americans and Brits understand each other, but, just like American and British English, there are different accents and different words. That means that if you need to understand and communicate with people of a specific nationality, you'll be better off choosing their country to follow your course.

And what if you've always fancied a beach holiday in Mexico, or a trip to Argentina to see Iguazu or the Perito Moreno glacier, or a visit to Ecuador to go the Galapagos Islands... If that's what you really want, Spain can wait!

However, all in all, if this is not your case, you should seriously consider Spain, even if it means traveling a little further. Click here to see the best language schools to learn Spanish in Spain.