Professional Internships and Spanish Language Immersion

Name: Professional Internships and Spanish Language Immersion
Brand: EUROACE
SKU: 226337
Rating: 9.33 (3 reviews)

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Looking to get some real world business experience? Need to improve your Spanish? Why not combine both in a unique study abroad experience?

At Euroace we collaborate with multiple companies across different sectors in Valencia, where you can complete an internship placement.
An internship in Valencia would be a natural extension of your academic studies, a great path to change professional sector or an opportunity to gain an overall view of the professional world. It's an unforgettable experience!

What's more, complementing your internship with Spanish language classes can provide you with the ultimate learning experience. Our language classes cater to all ability levels and are tailored to fit in around your internship work timetable.

Highlights

An internship in Valencia is much more than just work experience. It gives you the opportunity to develop a global network of contacts
You will become a unique professional, enhancing future employment opportunities
You'll get to be fully immersed in Spanish, both at work and in class, accelerating your language learning
You can choose from a diverse range of fields and try new roles and tasks
You'll experience a brand new culture and gain an insight into how the native Spanish language sounds and also how your industry operates on a global level

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I am staying in Valencia for 7 months taking an Internship with an organization called Fundación Equipo Humano and at the same time, participating in group and private Spanish classes.

I took this program because I am doing an internship as part of my placement year at university, where I am currently in my third year of a Business Management and Psychology degree. I decided to do my placement in Spain as I have always wanted to learn Spanish and so I thought why not combine this with an internship placement, and do them together.

The internship I am doing is very interesting, with many innovation and creativity projects to collaborate on, as well as HR projects too. All the tasks are related to people and this is something I really enjoy, especially the fact that we work with people from many different countries.

My Spanish course consists of 6 hours of group classes and a 1 hour private class each week. It's nice to have the private classes as I started as a beginner so I feel it's necessary, and the group classes are also fun to get to know other people.

What is your advice to future travelers on this program?

I would say definitely get some basic phrases before you come, so you can communicate a little bit! Also it is great living in a shared apartment because you can meet really cool people. My roommates have been mainly international and this has been an amazing experience. Lastly, I'd say throw yourself into it, don't be afraid to participate because everyone is really friendly here.

For my study abroad program in Valencia, I firstly chose to do an Internship in a bilingual school, where the kids learn in both Spanish and English. My internship role included helping out with English in the classroom, talking to the students in English and helping them to speak in their second language, supervising them during activities and break times. I worked with 6-7 year olds and it was a great chance to get a feel for the education field. However, I decided to change my internship after a few weeks because I wanted to try a business related internship and I also preferred something closer to where I was living, without such a long commute.

Euroace organized a second internship with me within 2 days and so I was able to join a professional football club and look into the sports business industry, and i didn't have to waste any time before getting into a new experience. I started my internship by sitting down with the Villarreal CF supervisor and discussing my interests. I decided to focus more on a graphic design and marketing role, and some of my tasks included designing brochures, video editing for the marketing department, and designing promotional banners and materials.

My course also involved taking Spanish classes every day. This really helped me to improve my speaking and listening skills, and it gave me a good amount of time every day to communicate with people on the same level as me and feel like I could make mistakes and ask if I didn't understand something.

Something that made the program a lot easier was the structure. The internship and the classes worked perfectly together, so the timetable was easy to get used to!

I loved Valencia and especially the Turia park. You can cycle, run, or just look around and find different festivals and events going on all the time. It was a great city, not too big, and with nice weather to enjoy being outside!

What is your advice to future travelers on this program?

My advice would be to try and put yourself out of your comfort zone. In the first few weeks I think it's really important to try to meet new people, and once you've met some, you'll meet more and more. Just remember that everyone is in the same boat as you, and so don't be afraid to meet people. Then you have more options to go out and more things to do with people. Also I'd say practice Spanish outside the classroom and don't be nervous to do it, because I wish I had done this more. And of course, live in the moment!

First of all, I'm a French Canadian Master Student who needed to do an internship to graduate. Being an International Business Major, I thought to myself "Why not do one abroad, it would be a great experience".
Since I already did an exchange in Asia, I wanted to see how it is to live in Europe. I chose Valencia because the program was really affordable with good reviews and had a program related to international business. It was a country which I've already visited although a new city. I could also learn Spanish by the same time which is really useful seeing the number of Spanish speaking countries.
The program staff was really supportive before and throughout the internship. The same can be said for the company employees hosting me. It was a travel agency located in the marina in a open space startup incubator/accelerator. It specialized in tours in South America with customers from all over the world.
I lived with a host family to learn more about the culture. Some other students/interns came and left during my time there so it was a great way to meet people from other countries.
All in all, it was a great experience which I would recommend to others greatly.

If you did this all over again, what's one thing you would change?

I would try to take Spanish classes to really learn the language. There is no better way than to live it. I also would have tried to go to more activities to meet more people. My biggest problem was a lack of time, most internships are 4-5 hours but I needed to do 8h per day for my university.

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What is your favorite travel memory?

Some years ago, me and some friends went to visit another friend, who was working in Slovenia. We decided to go to Ljubljana and spend the day in the capital. We were going by train, when it started snowing, even blocking the railway. Finally, we arrived more than two hours later than expected, and didn’t know if we would be able to go back home at night. Despite that worry, we had fun on the train, and great time in the city, visiting the Castle and different locations. I will never forget that trip!

How have you changed/grown since working for your current company?

I started working at Euroace as an intern who needed to take an internship placement to finish my Degree.

At the beginning, my tasks were only related to research, and nowadays I'm working on arranging our Spanish school lesson schedule, managing host families, and organizing student internship placements.

That evolution shows me that the company trusts in me, so I feel more self-confident than some months ago.

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What is the best story you've heard from a return student?

I've been working at Euroace since last February, so I can't say anything about students that have returned to the school, but I have seen some remarkable stories.

From students that signed a contract after finishing their internships, and stayed working with them, to students that came to Valencia and didn't go back home due to they found love here...

If you could go on any program that your company offers, which one would you choose and why?

As part of the internship programs, we organize meetings with the supervisors and the student on the first day of the program.

This allows us to meet new and really nice people and companies.

Most of these companies have thoughts and projects, that results very interesting, and can give us new ideas for the future. So I think an internship program would be very interesting!

What makes your company unique? When were you especially proud of your team?

We are a wonderful human group. We have a great workforce, and we all are more like a family than teamwork.

We try to solve everyday issues helping each other, to reach the best solution for the student.

Always taking care of our students with joy and a great atmosphere between students and Euroace. I'm proud of being part of Euroace Team.

What do you believe to be the biggest factor in being a successful company?

Organization is basic for the proper working of a company.

To have all the information clear is basic for working in the perfect conditions and avoiding mistakes.

But I think it's much more important to have a great atmosphere at the office.

It's key to have all the team happy and trust in your colleagues to get successful results.

About EUROACE

EUROACE (European Association for Cultural Exchange) is an experienced cultural exchange organization based on the eastern coast of Spain. Our Spanish language school has provided 6,000+ students, interns and institutions with unique study abroad experiences in Spain for more than a decade! We specialize in creating tailor-made programs, a perfect...

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