ONE of the most exhilarating adventures you can have this Christmas is learning a second language. If you come from Spain, then a two-week crash course in any of the other dialects in Spain will do. For example, you may want to learn Catalan or Basque. Or maybe you want to learn the language of the people in neighboring Portugal which is still located in the same Iberian Peninsula though where Spain is situated. Or maybe you can learn British English. There are a lot of English language schools splashed along the Mediterranean coastline in Spain. Other languages that you may want to enroll in are Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish or Swedish. People who speak these languages are the main visitors of Spain and they often ply through the Mediterranean areas such as Costa Blanca or Costa del Sol because they own nudist beaches there.

On the other hand, the more conservative ones are the British so there are also lots of English language schools in this eastern and southern part of Spain. In any course about these languages, it is divided into three stages – basic, intermediate and advanced. The duration of each stage is equivalent to one semester. But there are also two-week crash courses that I’ve mentioned earlier. During the first day of school, a student is asked to write down an essay. After that, he or she is compelled to recite the essay in front. Now, British English is interesting to learn because it does not have any r. But the most flattering of all non-r accents is the Australian accent. So if you want to embark on a two-week vacation to Australia, then you can definitely learn English there if you already have a friend there to stay home with and to patiently teach you a few words in English as well as tour you around and let you taste native Australian delicacies.

But if you want to learn American English the way you hear them on C-SPAN, then how about enrolling yourself in any of the language schools in the United States? If you want your life to be more convenient back here in Spain, you can enroll online anyway. An online course is only less expensive than a traditional classroom-type of instruction as far as second language acquisition is concerned because there are no laboratory and other miscellaneous fees involved. Besides, you don’t have to follow a routine in going to school online. You only need to log in and after completing the tasks for the day, you are good to go and resume your routinary work. Besides, in an online school, you don’t expend for the transportation in going to school and back as well as the snacks and meals in between that you have to spend.

The existence of English language schools is not an exclusive phenomenon among the countries that are mentioned earlier though. Even in countries such as the Philippines, there are lots of English language schools there because the Philippines is a country whose inhabitants speak English as a second language. They are fluent in English here that they are even outsourced by Fortune 500 companies to do customer service and technical support for them over the phone. There are also lots of English language schools in India because it’s a former British colony. And because of that, English there is British English which has a non-r accent.