Serious. I've struggled with learning a second language in school and want some advice on how best to learn one as an adult so I can flee this hellish country before they outlaw my existence next year
Cuba is about the only place I can think of that I'd want to move to and contribute towards, though I doubt its easy for crackers like me to immigrate
Move to Puerto Rico, live there as a trial run to build up your Spanish and ease yourself into full blown Cuban culture and then move to Cuba.
In all seriousness, please don't move to PR. Gringos have ruined this island.
There's probably a Cuban mail order bride website out there. Just become the mail order bride and move to Cuba.
:volcel-judge: you're queer so I'll just let you off with a warning this time
Moreso queerfilia :stalin-heart:
In like a platonic way not fetishising :stalin-heart:
If you're a US citizen, the Netherlands might be worth looking into. There's a bunch of beneficial immigration agreements between the US & NL (e.g. D.A.F.T.), and 93% of the Dutch population speaks English as a second language.
Shit, if you're in one of the "studentensteden" (student cities, cities with large student population) you'll need to know English - so many international students who work as servers.
Neolib hellhole and the communists are all Trots. Apart from Wala Al-Saadi, she's cool.
Neolib hellhole and the communists are all Trots.
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Self-employment with proof of income and savings works just as well. It's by some way the easiest western European country to immigrate to.
I've heard of people self-employing, others getting one via their uni (usually post-grads), and few IT person have trouble finding work either.
Emigrating is really difficult no matter which country you're going to, I'm just mentioning some stuff I know, hoping it helps. Reality for most people is that it's unaffordable or impractical.
Since you're Jewish that'd be easiest , yeah. I'm way out of my depth here so I'll just say I hope you have better days soon :Care-Comrade:
I'm aromantic, but have EU citizenship. You up for a loveless marriage?
On one had, bike-friendly infrastructure and stroopwaffels. On the other, :eu-cool:
Take a job as a fed, get stationed there, and defect on your first day.
Or just move to Canada first.
Moving to Cuba and setting up a business selling Havana Syndrome insurance to embassy workers and then never paying out because the insurance doesn’t cover hangovers.
Commit a crime and become a political prisoner, hijack a plane and fly it to Cuba for asylum
Do not do this it did not work out well for people forcing their hand politically
What if you come bearing gifts? What would Cuba want?
Puerto Rico or Mexico would probably be easier to move to
Why would you move to Puerto Rico, we already are making moves to criminalize abortion and we live by the same rules as the US. Things are even more bleak here.
:shrug-outta-hecks: Someone else mentioned it but Mexico would be my choice if I were running, AMLO is based
Here is my serious advice on how to learn Spanish.
- Immersion.
- Play Spanish streaming TV on youtube.
- Listen to spanish talk radio. -If you're feeling bold, set your phone language to spanish.
- Use these sites:
https://www.dreamingspanish.com/ - Dreaming Spanish. Excellent stuff for when you have a little vocabulary under your belt.
https://www.languagetransfer.org/complete-spanish - Language transfer. Another great, and free option. Best to use both in tandem.
- Apps, optional.
Apps are a mixed bag. I use DuoLingo and Busuu because it helps me to have a daily reminder to practice. That way I get at least 30 minutes a day. Busuu is better than duolingo, but duolingo is more gamified and fun. A mixed bag.
- Talk with people.
Discord has plenty of language exchange servers, and I'm sure there are comrades here that would be willing to help exchange with you. Latin people are incredibly warm and love to practice, and they'll appreciate your english knowledge as well.
Learning Spanish has been a delight. The more I've learned, the more the world and fresh perspectives have opened up.
Thanks for these resources, I'm trying to learn Spanish as well. I got some background in French and Latin so I can kinda stumble through written Spanish but spoken, with accent, and I'm fully gringo mode.
I'm a native English speaker that is now fluent in Spanish and left the united states recently and is living in Latin America. I'm about to fall asleep now so I won't write up an effort post here but if you DM me I'll get back tomorrow with details on how I became fluent and also willing to spend some of my limited free time tutoring you or answering any questions you have about Spanish.
Cuba let's you study medicine for free if you will practice it in empoverished areas of your home country when you return. I'm quite certain they'll let you live there as well after your degree.
As a foreigner, you can study at the same tuition fees as natives in Switserland and Norway (also Iceland and Lichtenstein) for any degree: that's zero euro's per year in Norway or between 400 and 3700 euro's per year in Switserland. Master programs are often in English, but for Bachelor programs, are mostly in the native languages but not always .
Hardly knowing any Spanish, I was doing the Clozemaster for Spanish and it seemed like it was working. Being in the U.S., we get exposed to a lot of Spanish anyway
There's a lot of resources online for language acquisition. Your local community college probably has Spanish language classes available if you want a more structured environment.
I was born in an spanish speaking coutry in a spanish speaking family and have lived here all my life. I still make 5 spelling mistakes while atempting to write the word crab in spanish.
