Living abroad I am living abroad since 2011 when I decided to leave everything that I had (job, house, family, friends) and travel to Europe for studying purposes. My first idea in that time was only improve my English and travel around, maybe get a part time job and enjoy my time alone then I would be ready to go back home. At the beginning it was very difficult to get use to the weather, to the people, the food and the language. The English language that I studied at home for many years wasn't that good when I arrived here. But little by little I started to be involved in activities at the language school, with my friends, my boyfriend and the place where I was living in that time. Suddenly I started to understand and communicate my ideas in English (in the basic way), and local people understood what I was talking about. Great!! I said, I am able to communicate in English. Now I am increasing my understanding about English. In this country I just use my mother tongue to speak with some friends and my husband. My next step is to take the IELTS exam and see how much I have learned in those 4 years in an speaking English country. That has been my experience living abroad, but if somebody can share something will be great to learn from you.

How do you express your feelings in the language that you are study? Well, for me that I am a Spanish native speaker to express my feelings in English is quite difficult because there are not expressions in English that I can say in my native language. I used to express in many words in my native language when I am sad, happy, upset, annoying, etc. but sometimes in English I tried to express the same feelings and people do not get the meaning I want to say, sometimes they understand other thing. That's makes me be confused and don't express anything at all. If you feel like me, what do you do for improving your emotional speaking in foreign language?