What living abroad says about my personality
~ I'm good at adjusting to change
~ Able to deal with emotions and stress
~ Intuitively aware and Culturally sensitive
~ I have inner resilience
~ Communication Skills
~ People skills
~ Resourcefullness on the job
Summary of my language progress
I arrived in the Czech Republic in September and stayed at Hotel Slavican for four weeks while I looked for alternative accomodation. I found accomodation in a Granny Anex of a Family Home. I was teaching English to children aged 11-19 at the local Grammar School. In my free time I learnt Czech and on Weekends I travelled and practiced the Czech I had learnt during the week.
As you can see from the photo, the winter was particularly harsh. A friend came to visit just after Christmas and it made me realise how much progress I had made with my language skills because I was able to order food for her and ask basic conversational questions and translate the answers to her. In the summer another friend spent a week with me and towards the end of my contract my mother spent 10 days with me. We travelled around Southern Czech Republic and by this point I was able to translate information boards and information given by tour guides into English. With reference to the table below I would describe my language levels as the following:
Czech - B1
Spanish - B1/B2
German - A2
Russian - A1
As you can see from the photo, the winter was particularly harsh. A friend came to visit just after Christmas and it made me realise how much progress I had made with my language skills because I was able to order food for her and ask basic conversational questions and translate the answers to her. In the summer another friend spent a week with me and towards the end of my contract my mother spent 10 days with me. We travelled around Southern Czech Republic and by this point I was able to translate information boards and information given by tour guides into English. With reference to the table below I would describe my language levels as the following:
Czech - B1
Spanish - B1/B2
German - A2
Russian - A1