5 culture shocks I didn't expect

when I moved from Spain to Paraguay

What living in another country is teaching me about Spanish, culture and my own way of seeing the world.

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I moved from Spain to Paraguay after spending two years preparing for the change.

I knew I would find different words, customs and ways of living.

What I didn’t expect was to discover so much about my own culture.

In this resource I tell you about five real situations that forced me to learn new codes: from adapting my Spanish to finding out what “haber quedado” (having made plans) really means in Paraguay.

Inside you'll find...

1
Why I am trying to become «bilingual in Spanish».
2
What I've had to learn about saying yes and confirming an appointment.
3
Why Interpol gets involved when you validate a foreign driving licence.
4
What I'm learning from the Paraguayan way of welcoming people from outside.
5
And what a quincho can reveal about the way a country connects.

This resource is for you if...

You study Spanish and you're interested in everything the language lets you discover once you look beyond vocabulary and grammar.

Hi, I'm Mónica

I’m a Spanish teacher, I’m from Spain and I currently live in Paraguay.

I’m fascinated by languages, but even more by everything that happens around them: the people we meet, the cultures we discover and the things we start to question once we stop assuming our way of life is simply “normal”.

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