English in Spain and accents In Spain, children have to study english at the school since they have 3 or 4 years old. Now that I am 17 and I have finished all my "compulsory studies of english", I can see clearly all the mistakes of our system at the time to teach and learn a language. First of all, teachers or "the system",(because teachers don't have all the fault),teach the students writting activities and they don't make us practise the pronunciation.That's the reason why spanish people is known for they bad pronunciation in english.However, for me pronunciation is very important.I have never spoken with a native speaker, but it must be very frustrating realize that so many years of studying are useless, because you can't be all day writting in english if you want to communicate with a native speaker. Another important thing is that in Spain,we have the bad habit to laugh from others when we talk in another language.I don't understand why this happens...I suppose that is something cultural which I'm not agree with, but this is another reason that explains why we are "afraid" of talking and learning languages.I know..it has no sense, but it is a fact. Finally, I would like to talk about the accents in english. Now that I want to try to improve my fluency in english with a native speaker,( which is a really big step for me :)), I would like to ask,¿what accent should I learn?.Here we learn british english more or less, but there are a lot of movies and series that are american... .Sometimes teachers say how is ----- in american, like "lift"-"elevator" , but...¿what should I say as a non-native speaker? If someone apart from check my essay can help me with the last doubt, I would be very grateful :))