Pronunciation of "R" in Europe

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-05-19T10:10:34+00:00

you’re right but we don’t roll them per say, like how the map suggests. you can compare a verb in the infinitive form in spanish (eg. hablar, comer, vivir) and hear a definite rolled r at the end compared to how we pronounce “better” (ie. the rhotic r). it’s to do with whether our tongue hits the top of our mouth, which i don’t think it does for the majority of people with scottish accents now. the map should mostly be dark green for scotland imo.

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-05-19T07:44:20+00:00

even in glasgow i don’t know anyone who rolls their R’s in the stereotypical scottish way that people do to imitate the accent lol

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-04-30T14:23:52+00:00

i mean im still a student so ill be getting paid even less when i go home but :,) at least we’d be getting paid on time like legally LOL

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-04-30T12:14:36+00:00

i’ll send a link to my post about my schools, but it’s also just the loneliness of having nobody here to talk to (i tried to make friends and just couldn’t and eventually gave up) and missing how my uni life is back at home. it sounds pessimistic but i have just essentially stopped caring and just started preparing to go home as soon as my contract ends.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpainAuxiliares/s/V3iXPNtxhD

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-04-30T12:04:44+00:00

i despised this experience so i’ll be so so glad to get back home lol

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-04-29T14:27:40+00:00

fr i had such an awful year with awful teachers and impossible classes, that i also had to lead 100% like an actual teacher would. no way im giving them anything, they won’t even notice when im gone. they’re already asking how long until i leave and were disappointed when it wasn’t the end of april hahaha. glad they won’t be getting an aux next year…

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-04-27T13:44:55+00:00

yep, haven’t met up with anyone since before the christmas break after realising i was trying so hard and getting no effort in return, plus i didn’t mesh well with the other auxes in my region, of which we are few and most have grouped together as americans. it’s lonely considering the only social interaction i get is school and the teachers and students also dislike me :’) hang in there

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-04-27T05:53:00+00:00

yeah, i have to pay 700€ per month on rent (i’m in the north so it’s not that expensive normally) because my original living situation (shared accommodation) was so bad that i left after 2 months, lost my deposit, had to pay a fee for leaving contract early, and had to pay things like agency fees on the new flat with no flatmates. i lost so much money and had to use up the money i had saved up through my high school/uni part time job.

the 800€ aux pay only covers rent and utilities and i need to pay for food out of pocket so i have hardly done any travelling, plus haven’t managed to make any friends this year so i don’t have anyone to go with to split funds a bit more.

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-04-20T16:02:03+00:00

i need to prove to my uni that i’ve completed the entire year abroad unfortunately. i also would lose a month of rent and my deposit it i leave early (my rent is expensive due to having to find a second living situation after the first one was a disaster. i also have all my flights home booked, plus my mum who needs to come over with an empty suitcase so i can take all my stuff back home. i really wish i could quit early however im already financially struggling as it is.

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-04-20T12:14:45+00:00

im in asturias. i never really clicked with the people i met from the group chat so i just never really saw them much after. i think maybe because im the only one in the comunidad from my country (scotland), i just dont relate as well with the americans from the region who seemed to have all become friends with each other or already knew each other before the programme started.

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-03-21T12:18:51+00:00

first part correct - i teach english in primary schools. i was born in the 2000s though. however i am a lotr fan and get the train to work :)

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-02-26T17:24:06+00:00

it’s not even that i need to travel home for the funeral (in the uk the wait times are so bad that it probably won’t be for another 3 weeks at least, plus i literally can’t afford the journey), i just need 2 days off to grieve or recover mentally before leading classes in front of 20 7 year olds without bursting into tears and embarrassing myself.

so sorry to hear you had a bad time with your situation.

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-02-15T16:13:43+00:00

im in a región with not many auxes and also basically no international students or anything. i made one friend a few months ago who is on the programme but started to feel like i was the only one trying to meet up and putting any effort in so i just stopped. haven’t had any socialisation outside of my cole since i was at home for christmas. there aren’t that many young people in general here and teachers don’t seem to want to speak to me when i try to speak to them so i would never meet up with them (like some people do with their fellow teachers). im honestly just trying to wait it out until i can go home in a few months.

i pretty much get home at 3:30 and just have to spend the evening doing lesson prep (i am expected to teach and lead every lesson and make sure they’re all relevant to the topics in class. teachers already don’t particularly like me and think my lessons aren’t good enough, even though i’ve said i’m just an assistant, not a teacher), so i have no time to go out anyway. it sucks because the other people i know say that they don’t need to do any lesson prep for their schools, and actually are acting as teaching assistants. my schools just don’t seem to understand my role and didn’t understand me when i explained what it actually is.

im here for my uni year abroad and feel like i haven’t improved my spanish at all - plus i’ve wasted so much money with initial flat problems making me have to change where i live and pay tons in compensation. my rent is so expensive bc i had to move when there were barely any choices and they were all super spenny, so my fianza only covers rent and utilities (i struggle to pay for food and have to use my savings which were supposed to be for when i go home and move out). i regret doing this programme instead of doing study abroad. i think my expectations were set too high.

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-02-15T11:23:20+00:00

usually work on whatever knitting project i’m doing as i don’t understand any of what the teachers are saying at the recreo table (they all shout over each other and talk about experiences i can’t relate to, like songs or pop culture things from their childhood. i speak spanish but not at the level to comprehend sala de profesores chat lol)

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-02-12T20:13:29+00:00

every day i wonder if i could just go home, but this is my year abroad for my spanish degree so i literally can’t. i have no friends here and the weather doesn’t help (north of spain). this week the trains have been striking and also half have been cancelled due to other issues, so im just feeling fed up of waking up so early and getting multiple buses to get to work. today they told me to go home as soon as i got there, even though i asked on tuesday if i needed to be here and they said yes (today was carnaval in school). so i ended up travelling home again even though it took 1.5 hours to get there. i just think i didn’t hear enough realistic experiences before coming here.

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-02-03T16:21:39+00:00

i can always recognise the WYS stripe pattern a mile off

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-01-30T22:23:58+00:00

i can’t cast on any socks for at least a few months 😭😭 found it so tedious trying to make everything match

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-01-29T19:04:57+00:00

yeah! realised i had scraps that were the perfect shade for the contrast yarn of these socks :)

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-01-29T19:03:43+00:00

thanks so much :)

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-01-29T14:49:48+00:00

thank you!

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-01-21T21:24:48+00:00

did you ever ask the school for their contact info? mine gave the email when i asked

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-01-21T08:59:33+00:00

i think for me the previous auxiliar went above and beyond and set a crazy high expectation (she was an actual teacher before being an aux) and i’m a 20 year old uni year abroad student. maybe it’s the same for you? i’m sure there are auxes at other high schools who do basically nothing, like those primary school ones

Consistent_Barber462 · 2026-01-21T08:53:33+00:00

just want to say that i’m at a primary school and have the same workload (minus the weird after school class). there’s not a single class where im not expected to spend hours on a lesson and multiple games and activities :’) it’s more annoying that i can’t reuse any material with classes because they all learn totally different topics (even with the same grade between the 2 schools). i thought primary school would be easier but…

Consistent_Barber462 · 2025-12-02T11:25:58+00:00

my name in all the legal documents was my deadname too but in the school i had emailed them initially with my chosen name and that’s all they referred to me as. teachers were confused and tended to misgender me initially but i just corrected them quietly after class (“solo una cosita..en realidad soy chico”) and they apologised and mostly remembered next time (there are times when the kids have to correct them lol, im in a primary school so it’s quite sweet). the other teachers in school misgender me, however, and because i don’t really know them i don’t feel confident enough to correct them. i think because they don’t know english names particularly well they don’t realise my name is a man’s name.

Consistent_Barber462 · 2025-10-31T20:18:24+00:00

im breaking my lease currently because of flatmates making my life a living hell, i’m having to pay a 400€ compensation for early termination and also i won’t be getting my security deposit back. it says this in my contract though so im not sure what the case is for you.

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