8 Reasons Panama Is the Best Country for Learning Spanish
| February 24, 2017
Homestays are offered to supercharge learning
Staying in a hotel or hostel and going to lessons is all fine and good, but if you really want to supercharge your learning, you’ll need to step it up a notch.
The better language schools in Panama all offer homestays at their locations. What does this mean? Instead of crashing in your own room at the end of each day at a place surrounded by other foreigners, you’ll be staying with a local family. You’ll get a room in their home, eat meals with them, and maybe even go on family excursions. You’ll have the constant opportunity to ask questions, witness family life, and delve so much deeper into Panamanian culture and language than you ever thought possible!
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