Going abroad - Your stories
Moving and living abroad is an exciting way to get to know the world and learn languages - but it can be quite challenging, as your stories prove.
- Sheila - Charming mistakes
- Rebecca - Struggling to make friends at school
- Nathalie - Spend your academic year abroad
- Carl - Life in France no holiday
- Stephanie - My life in France
- C. Baker - Be patient, don't give up
- Margaret - Don't be too cliquey with other ex-pats
- Peter - Beware the red tape
- Matthew - Whole world out there waiting to be discovered
- Carol - Holiday home forever
- KJ Brown - Studying in France
- Glenda - Learning the language is a must
- Carey - Couldn't bear to bring up a child in the UK
- Anna - Bless you and thank you the Spanish way
- Steve - Property development
- Tony - Understand the law
- Heather - Learn some Spanish before you come here
- Mac - Becoming members of the village
- Marian - Determined to make it work
- Lynn - Language school as a must
- Cath - Tang Soo do in Spain
- Catherine - Long journey to the perfect place
- Denise - Integrate into the Spanish community
- Jacinta - Make an effort to learn the language
- Rosemary - We are guests in their country
- Julie - More quality time with daughter
- Suzie - New development for British people
- Carol - A lot happier on a lot less
- Jane - Very different from being on holiday
- Marie - The pitfalls of buying a finca in Spain
- Edmund - Gap year in a German monastery
- Danial - Happy to be corrected
- Helen - More comfortable in German
- Grant - Even better if I'd known the language
- Cate - Good and kind people
- Justin - Emotional rollercoaster
- Maddy - An English musician's life in a German orchestra
- Thomas - Throwing yourself in at the deep end
- Rebecca - Unplanned, but enriching experience
- Liz - Struggle to fit into a small village community
- Ryan - Ways to aviod learning a language
- Raphaelle - Exciting opportunity
- Angela - Sink or swim
- Tania - Greek - it's not impossible
- John - Language is still a major problem
- Norman - Less pressure, better climate
- Carly - My biggest problem is leaving
- Jason - Japanese is easy
- Andy - Basic Japanese can make life easier
- Naomi - Settling into life in Beijing
- Jeremy - Learning Chinese is character-building
- Paul - My experience in Den Haag
- Peter - Everyone likes to speak English
- Tony - Cracking the code to the Dutch language
- Claire - Little incentive to learn Dutch
- Martin - UK schools should do more to teach languages
- Gordon - Learning a language opens up another world
- Chris - Take a long term perspective
- Caroline - Use all your senses every day
- Kama - Overcome your shyness
- Daen - Determined to learn the language
- Jane - Language learning becomes easier
- Christopher - Only came for four days
- Harry - Don't be scared of making mistakes
- Maria - Better way of living
- Noel - Learning Arabic in Egypt (Egypt)
- Leigh - Viva Brasil (Brazil)
- Pauline - In love with Turkey (Turkey)
- Don - Living my dream in Costa Rica
- Robert - Language with many regional differences (Tunisia)
- Maryati - Understanding each other better (Belgium)
- Shelley - Unprepared for Swiss German (Switzerland)
- Shiani - Hardest years of my life (Mexico)
- Tim - Hungarian is hard, but the people are great (Hungary)
- Mark - A chance meeting (Czech Republic)
- Fred - Loving Ukraine
- Debbie - Honest people (Switzerland)
