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| Marian | Posted: 19.02.2005, 15:03 | |
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I am an English lady who has been living in California since 1995. My son spent two years at a Spanish school in Torrevieja until the age of 6 and used to speak Spanish at school. He will be 18 this year and we are returning to Torrevieja in late Summer. My problem is that my son no longer speaks Spanish and I need some kind of orientation as to where he could study for a career when we are living in Spain. He will hopefully get his American High School Diploma in June. He is interested in sound engineering and is good with computers but I am worried about the language thing, especially as he is uninterested in learning Spanish, even unwilling. I wondered if you had any suggestions. |
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| John Ross | Posted: 19.02.2005, 15:54 | |
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There are a number of American universities with campuses in Spain: Saint Louis University and the Schiller University, both in Madrid, spring to mind, but if you do a Google search on "American university Spain" you will find more. Whether they offer anything like sound engineering is a different thing: I doubt it, frankly, but they should certainly have plenty in the computing line. That doesn't mean I think you should rule out a Spanish university. Many have exchange programs, if not most (I'm not an expert), and are used to foreign students struggling with the language. The Erasmus programme, for example, brings kids here from all over Europe, and if you end up in Barcelona, well, you get your classes in Catalan and it's up to you to catch up (and they almost always do). What I don't know is how much validity (if any) an American high school diploma would have in this respect - Spanish bureacracy does not really approve of foreign qualifications, and it can take years to get them recognised, if at all (which is why there are any number of East and North European nuclear physicists and the like tending bar). I wouldn't worry too much about your son's Spanish. He'll pick up enough "survival"-level Spanish almost immediately, and there is no better teacher than loneliness, by which I mean that as soon as he realises he needs to speak the language to make friends, have an ordinary conversation beyond the "me Tarzan" level and, especially, have the slightest success chatting anyone up, he'll learn, whatever his chosen method. |
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