| Teach yourself Spanish. | | | | why not join a Spanish learning course at your college |
| This will simply make your whole experience in any of | | | | or university? |
| the Spanish speaking countries a great deal easier. | | | | We have supplied you with a list of all the countries |
| I found this out to my cost on my first holiday to Cuba. | | | | that have Spanish as their official language and as you |
| A lot of Cubans do speak English but their main | | | | can see, Spanish covers a wide area of the globe |
| language is Spanish and it was quite difficult | | | | including Africa and South America. |
| sometimes with the language barrier and it did spoil my | | | | There are also other countries that use Spanish, but |
| experience somewhat. I decided after this to learn | | | | not necessarily as their official language! Such as |
| some basics and I can categorically say, my | | | | Andorra and the Virgin Islands. |
| excursions to other Spanish speaking countries have | | | | 21 Countries around the world have Spanish as their |
| been made easier even with my basic Spanish. | | | | official language! If you are visiting any of these |
| So I believe if you can teach yourself Spanish, then go | | | | countries it would greatly aid your experience to at |
| for it. If you find it too difficult to learn on your own, | | | | least learn some basic Spanish. |