Travel and Learn Spanish

Travel around Spain and Latin America

Going on a journey gives you a deeper insight into the world, people, and cultures. Travel also broadens your horizons and allows you to get to know yourself better and learn more about what you want.

Combining the acquisition of a foreign language with getting to know the cultures and places in which the same is spoken seems to many of our students as the perfect way to have fun and make a gap year “worthwhile”.

        Gap Yearers discovering streets of Madrid


 Many people who opt for a year out not only wish to spend the time studying a foreign language, but also wish to challenge themselves whilst travelling through foreign places.
     
Surely a gap year spent travelling can and will present great challenges for you, and so it allows for the likelihood that you will gain important life skills in areas such as communication, decision-making, resilience, and initiative.


Our gap year program offers you the possibility to do this. We have gap year partner institutes in many places
within Spain and Latin America.
In Spain, a country which displays great cultural variety and vastly different geographical regions – e.g. the Arabic influences in the South (Andalucía) and the landscapes of the North (resembling English landscapes, with a slight tendency towards rainy weather resulting in green hills) – we offer several locations to study during your gap year.   
                                      Splashing Fun in Costa Rica














Gaudí in Barcelona
  • Impressive and artistic Barcelona;  
  • The beautiful student city of Salamanca;
  • Valencia, situated on the
    Mediterranean coast;
  • The centre of the Costa del Sol, Malaga, in Andalucía;
  • Granada, hometown of the glorious Alhambra;
  • San Sebastian in the Basque country; or
  • Alicante, where much of an ancient Iberian city, Lucentum, has been excavated.
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Main Plaza of Seville

The Alhambra in Granada

Travelling to a foreign continent exposes you to an even greater number of cultures and makes your gap year trip more interesting, virtually guaranteeing an exotic experience.  AIL Madrid also has gap year partner institutions in many Latin American countries:

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Peru's Cusco Ruins

  • Listen to mariachi music in Mexico;
  • In Argentina, visit picturesque Patagonia;
  • See the desert of Atacama in Chile;
  • Take a trip to Venezuela´s capital Caracas;
  • Swim in the Caribbean sea off of Costa Rica; or
  • Visit the Cusco in Peru.
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Lily Pond in Venezuela

For further information on our Travel and Learn program get in contact with our gap year advisors!