Amandine Humez answered:
April 26th, 2014Hihaaah :) I’m here to help you, as much as I can. I’m just going to give you my opinion and you’ll see what you take or not. :) So I’m French, I live in Northern France next to Lille (you may think it’s not the best place but all the exchange students who came here instead of their dreams of Paris and the South are a lot happier than there!). I’ll be leaving France on August 31 to spend a year in Argentina. And guess what? I don’t speak Spanish. I began to learn it when I found out that I was going to Argentina, that is to say in November. I don’t feel like I can have a conversation with a spanish-speaker right now, and I’m leaving in 4 months. It’s freaking me out, but a lot of exchange students don’t know their host language before leaving their home country. I know a girl who went to Argentina 2 years ago. She only spoke German. Seriously, German? Argentina? Okay, non-sense. She didn’t learn Spanish before going there, and 2/3 months after her arrival, she was speaking Spanish fluently. The fact that you’re around people that only speak their language obliges you to do some efforts to understand and you’ll finally be able to have a little conversation, and after a little period of time, you’ll be better than you ever thought! :) Hope that helped, I’m here if you have some questions. French is hard, that’s not a secret, but the exchange students that are here right now, they became fluent after (maximum) 4 months (even without learning this language before coming!). So don’t you worry for the language :)
