How much progress can I expect at an immersion Spanish school?

Depending on your degree of motivation and dedication, that could be enough to get you at least semi-fluent. Right now you are still translating everything, as you so rightly point out. You will need to make the mental shift into listening and speaking directly without using your English as a crutch (that is, switching from your left brain into your right brain).

It also depends on the level and type of Spanish needed for the job you want to apply for. Academic? Business? Financial? Hospitality industry? etc. Since you say "prefers", there is a good chance you could get hired as potentially bilingual so long as your other qualifications meet the job requirements. You will need to keep practicing after the six weeks are over, though.

Hi there, it relies to a colossal measure how well you're with languages. I studied Spanish in Nicaragua and Ecuador final 12 months for nearly five months (four hours an afternoon with a individual instructor). I did quite greater than a number of the different scholars. I might say that my Spanish is variety of adequate, it's less complicated for me to talk than to fully grasp due to the fact that so much locals talk lovely dangerous Spanish. My lecturers in Nicaragua instructed me that my Spanish grammar is greater than ninety% of the populace in Nicaragua, nonetheless, I am some distance from fluent. I a laugh in Guatemala. I went there three years in the past to Antigua and quite preferred it. You want approximately seven hundred hours of classromm educating and approximately two years dwelling in a Spanish speakme nation to be slightly fluent, and that is a truth! I are living in Southern California and we've plenty of Spanish speakme individuals right here, nonetheless, the language they talk isn't quite Spanish, this can be a blend of dangerous Spanish with plenty of slang. It quite relies on the schooling of the Spanish speakme local how well or dangerous he/she speaks Spanish.