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What's wrong with the English we (Spanish people) speak?

I’ve always considered myself slightly above the average regarding my English, and when I arrived in the UK I realised my English level was not that good compared with other Europeans (I’m looking at the big picture, of course there are Spaniards who speak English so well that you can’t even tell the difference with natives). Does it mean we are worse at languages than other Europeans? Not at all (I hope), we just mislearn it. The English we learn Most of the teachers we have at school (and at other institutions like the official language school) are not natives, and, even though some speak very good English (not all of them, believe me) yet they make some mistakes. We all make mistakes, even natives do. The problem comes when we take these mistakes after our teachers, but we think we are doing well. Very often, these mistakes are mispronunciations (I realised English had more than 5 vowel sounds 14 years after my first English lesson). For many Spaniards the vowels in “wor

One year in Coventry

I n 2016, I decided to spend one academic year at Coventry, attending lessons at Coventry University (CU), and I didn't do it alone.  After 4 years doing a BSc and 1 year of MSc, I still had 1 year left to finish my studies (Yes, in Spain BSc+MSc is equal to 4+2 years), but I needed a change to break with the monotony of 5 years, so I decided to go abroad as part as the ERASMUS programme. Since my girlfriend wanted to improve her English as well, we decided to go together and Coventry seemed the most suitable option we had. Update : As this post is getting more views than I expected and I got more than 1k views, I'm going to write about either the English spoken by Spaniards or how I improved my English (or any other subject you tell me in the comments) just let me know which one you find more interesting. Cheers!  The beginning Starting the "freshers’ week" on the 26th of September and the academic course the next week, we arrived in Coventry the 8th of