{"id":44089,"date":"2019-03-14T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T08:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/learning-spanish-abroad-lars-froemel-and-julius-hamel-begin-their-exchange-program-in-uruguay\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:42:05","slug":"learning-spanish-abroad-lars-froemel-and-julius-hamel-begin-their-exchange-program-in-uruguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/learning-spanish-abroad-lars-froemel-and-julius-hamel-begin-their-exchange-program-in-uruguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Spanish Abroad: Lars Froemel and Julius Hamel Begin Their Exchange Program in Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exchange students Francisco Bayce and Juan Ignacio Cambon from Montevideo have only a few days left at Steinm\u00fchle before they return to their home country of Uruguay. Their partner students, Lars Froemel and Julius Hamel, will make a return visit in a few weeks. After all, the best way to learn a language is in the country where it\u2019s spoken. Both students want to improve their Spanish. <\/p>\n

The visiting students answer questions in surprisingly good German. In Montevideo, a city of over a million people, they are attending the German school. At the DSM, the German School of Montevideo, they experience school life a little differently than at Steinm\u00fchle. With 1,200 students, the enrollment there is almost exactly double. <\/p>\n

Otherwise, they see some similarities: Bilingual instruction\u2014Spanish\/German or Spanish\/English\u2014also helps young people develop their language skills at the DSM in Uruguay. Chaperone Laura Bergues can confirm this. She is their English teacher. <\/p>\n

The biggest difference the teenagers noticed was that cell phones play a bigger role in classes back home. \u201cWe\u2019re allowed to use them more than we do here,\u201d Francisco reports. He says the internet connections are worse in Germany, but he did notice something else positive: \u201cYou definitely have the nicer soccer stadiums,\u201d he says with a laugh. <\/p>\n

Francisco and Juan Ignacio noticed something else: \u201cWe eat a lot more meat at home.\u201d A few figures make it clear what the dietary situation is like in this South American country: Uruguay has 15 million cows and 13 million sheep for its 3.5 million residents. <\/p>\n

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“Every country has a different concept of politeness.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Lars Froemel, a 10th grader, and Julius Hamel, an 11th grader, are looking forward to their upcoming stay in Montevideo. They\u2019re excited to see their two exchange partners again\u2014people they\u2019ve already gotten along with so well. All four boys agree: It was a great fit! <\/p>\n

The teenagers from Uruguay would like to say thank you: \u201cThank you to the Steinm\u00fchle and to our host families. We had a great time.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Ramos, Lars and Julius\u2019s Spanish teacher, is glad that the Uruguay exchange program is thriving at Steinm\u00fchle. \u201cWe started it a few years ago and have now expanded the program.\u201d The linguistic nuances of Spanish in Uruguay, as well as in Argentina, are minor variations and by no means a dialect. \u201cThe intonation is a bit like that of Italian.\u201d <\/p>\n

Otherwise, she and her colleague from Uruguay give the young people tips on how best to behave in everyday situations in Uruguay. \u201cEvery country,\u201d she says, \u201chas a different concept of politeness.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIn our country,\u201d the guests from Uruguay emphasize, \u201cyou\u2019re always warmly welcomed and in good hands. It\u2019s the safest country in Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Exchange students Francisco Bayce and Juan Ignacio Cambon from Montevideo have only a few days left at Steinm\u00fchle before they return to their home country of Uruguay. Their partner students, Lars Froemel and Julius Hamel, will make a return visit in a few weeks. After all, the best way to learn a language is in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":44091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,85,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-languages-international-affairs","category-news","category-steinmuehle-on-the-road"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48961,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44089\/revisions\/48961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}