Teaching conversational english in Spain?

It's Pueblo Ingles, an immersion program where native English speakers (not just Americans) spend a week or two speaking only English to Spaniards. All meals and accommodation is provided for the English speakers. You'll find all the information you need at the following link.

http://www.morethanenglish.com/anglos/index.asp

Sorry, but this is unlikely to happen. To teach in Spain you need qualifications (a degree and a TEFL certificate) and then for the visa you'll need to have a passport from an EU member state. It's unlikely to find work without these.

Having said that, there are Americans working in Spain but they got in through the back door as it were (see below).

And finally there's the issue of the contract length. Most teaching jobs are for the academic year. Going for just a single week isn't enough to do anything - you won't get to know your students and learn how to most effectively teach them.

If this is the kind of thing you want to do (and why not? it's great fun) then get qualified and look to go overseas for a year or more for work.

You know, since the EU, Spain prefers hiring British people to teach English. After all, it's closer, and the people in Spain are MUCH more likely to need British English than American.

And British people don't need Visas. Americans do.

No one learns a language by just speaking it with a native. They want people to TEACH, meaning, to have EXPERIENCE and a teaching license.

Good luck finding anything. It's not impossible, but with the economy as it is, and the EU citizens not needing any visas, jobs for Americans have become really scarce.