It's raining cats and dogs Is the use of the expression "It's raining cats and dogs" old fashioned?

Learning languages: Language school I am going to talk about thinks I do to learn English and I would like to start with the first think I did: study English at school. When I was younger I studied English in primary and in secondary school, even in the university I studied it because I chose it during one course as an optional subject. I always past the exams but I never learnt English. This is the consequence of taking classes without practice speaking or listening, we only had to remember vocabulary and some grammar rules. Thanks to the educational system in Spain, languages weren't important enough to be teached properly at school. Fortunately, it seems that is changing nowadays. After traveling a bit around the world and working in an international company, I realized the value of language. Really that was something I always had known, but this time I had to do another step so finally I enrolled in the official school of languages of my city. I have been studying at language school for three years and I guess I've learnt a lot. I've improved my English skills but specially I feel more confident and I've lost fear of speaking or doing mistakes. Of course, learning languages involves more work to do (not only going to school, it's not enough!), and I'll write about that other time.