We moved to USA, two kids 10 and 8YO. Spanish speakers. I can remember my daughter crying saying the only thing she could do was watch the clock on the wall, waiting to leave the school because she didn’t understand any word in the class. 😢 difficult times, but after a while everything became better ❤.

This brings me back so many memories, Hadar. ..let me share with you what pushed me to work so hard in learning japanese as soon as I could: a haircut 😅. I found myself unable to explain how I wanted it. My japanese was very basic, so I thought saying short here, keep this long there was enough...nope. I bless that woman, she pushed me to freedom. All I had to do was look in the mirror and say to myself: never again. Every person was a lesson for me. It just kept getting better as I improved. My time in Japan was filled with joy and wonderful people I won't forget. It made me stronger in so many ways. I wish you a wonderful weekend in this beautiful country, I love Spain, so much culture, so much history and Barcelona is amazing.

Hello Hadar, I could listen to you for hours... It evokes feelings of happiness, and I'm sure thousands of people feel the same way. With this support and love from around the world, you will succeed wherever you settle. I look forward to the next episode. I'm quite jealous that you're supposed, or rather, have no choice but to learn Spanish and Catalan. Perhaps it would be a good idea for you to share your Spanish learning journey with everyone... :) I would love to learn Spanish from scratch and be guided by your expertise. Thank you for your online presence! It's truly fantastic.

@DomesticEnglish

3 ай бұрын

Exactly michele i also agree with you about Hadar because she is a fantastic person on her work for teaching english. I m from Brazil and you michele?

I've been following you for a long time, but since you moved to Spain I like your videos more. You don't talk about rhythm, pronunciation... but about your experiences here. It's not that I understand you completely, but I understand most of it, and that's how I improve my hearing. I hope you are happy in Spain, and if you go south, in Extremadura you have a house. A hug, Hadar.

It’s incredible how hard and challenging it is to go and ask for a coffee (my native language is Spanish). Everything about going to a coffee shop feels like a struggle and a stressful moment. But now, I'm trying to change my mindset and see it as a victory and an opportunity for improvement when I ask for coffee. If I make a mistake, it’s okay; I’ll do better next time. Thank you, Hadar! I’m not an immigrant, but I relate with everything you've shared with us.

I really admire you! It's so inspiring to hear your story ❤️ It's gripping from the beginning up to the very end. You will always shine anywhere you go!🌟🌟

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. plus nothing can stop a woman like Hadar with the right mental attitude from achieving your goal😘😘😘

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this ❤️❤️

I remembered when I first moved to the US, the following Sunday I slept all day , I was mentally exhausted, my body wanted to go out and know the new place my mind said “no!, Go to sleep!” It is a lot of mental work to relocate

Hi Hadar, you're doing terrific! Despite the language barrier, everyone adapts differently. It took me nearly five years to fit in, and it's still a work in progress. My daughter also took almost three years and changing schools to make friends and feel comfortable. Seeing her unhappy was tough, but it's part of life. Now we love where we live; it's safe and peaceful. It took time to stop longing for the USA, but I'm grateful for the positive changes. 😊

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this..so happy to hear this is where you’re at now ❤️

I can relate. How are you managing the frustration of not being understood by the nationals? I also feel constantly inferior to them because I’m completely outside my comfort zone and obviously I’m not feeling confident. They have everything: a family around, a supportive environment, a car, a house, a routine, etc., and me, still starting from the scratch. It seems they have the permission to have opinions (disgust things, make jokes, use sarcasm, enjoy things), and me, still figuring things out.

Hi Hadar, everything is going to be great it's about time, God bless you all.

Teacher for every word that comes out from your mouth, I learn something new, you are a wonderful person you deserve the best of the life and your family too .

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😃

Sending a big and warm hug your way, Hadar! Love you!❤

Good luck my dear Hadar, you will get that.

Hadar, I hope by this time you are more settled in Barcelona with your relatives. What a challenge decided to face with a huge change moving to Barcelona above all without manage the language. Anyway, I just want to share my thoughts about something that resonates to me in this journey. Even though you are experienced language teacher you faced insecurity and uncertainty in a daily and regular activities like if you got well and/or if I understood. That's still happen to me when I have to speak English. But all time you are encourages your students and followers (myself) to speak no matter what. In a few months you will be fluent in Spanish and this phase of your life will a learning story that's shows us everything is possible when you wanted it. Mucho éxito en esta nueva aventura saludos desde México.

I love your vídeos! I enjoy every single one! You are so natural explaining everything ❤

Thank you once again Hadar for this. You have encouraged me again on how to be confident and courageous. I appreciate.

I enjoy listening to your new podcast, which focuses on new experiences, different things, and so on.

Thank you Hadar !for sharing us your feelings and the details to new living place. You inspire me. ❤ I had a experience in the past when I moved to USA. It was so hard . I’ll see you God bless you . Happy Shabbat! Shalom!

So funny that I went through exactly the same challenge when I moved to Canada, I'm from Mexico so I speak Spanish, so, I didn't speak English at all, nothing, so, it was so hard for me to get used to speaking English all the time. Eventually, after taking English as a second language at school, I began to feel confident. But at first, it was so hard, difficult and stressful, frustrating, etc etc etc etc. At the end, you feel satisfied when people begin to understand you. So, go on ahead my friend, you can do it!!🎉❤

Thanks, Hadar...I can relate to what you are experiencing. I have been living in the US for about 20 years. I have to work/ interact with a lot of people from phone calls and so on. And I start a new job in which I need to be making a lot of phone calls, and some people telling me that they can't understand me. It has been frustrating, with my age and time living here and trying my best, and today you are talking about confidence. Thanks!

Hello Hadar, thank you for sharing your experiences and feelings. I like your way of expressing yourself. All this new experience you are living must be to strengthen you. Te queremos.

"Hadar, I love your new episodes! Thank you, thank you 💗💗💗 I am not have any doubt that all your new experiences will take you to other levels of creativity and inspiration, and here will be your community as always to support you and keeping learning from you. 😍😍😍Btw your Spanish r in “americano” is perfect 😉👏👏💗💗💗

Dear Hadar. What a big challenge for you and your family. Barcelona has a very different language than Spain. Your daughters has been a little overwhelming with learning both and no forget English. However you are very smart and I wish you all the best ❤

Hi Hadar, You're such an intelligent lady. This is an incredible journey for you and also your viewers like me. While I'm listening to your new chapter in Barcelona, I feel like I'm right there going through how I would feel if I'm in your shoes. I can see you eventually be able to build up such a confidence and happiness as days go by. When I feel anxious or negative emotion coming out of me, I try not to dig in. It's important to take care of our emotion but our emotion can be deceptive. Sense of humors, flexibility, resilience, kind to yourself and others, let all the good energy into your spirit. Moving into a new country with different language must be like when you started to learn English language. Look at you you! How you became who you are now. Make this new journey full of excitement and joy!

Un americano! There you go! You’re settled! 🤩💛☕️✨

I love listening to your relocation diaries. ❤ I wish you the best in this process. If you ever want to meet and practice your Spanish, I’d be more than happy to help!!! You’ve added so much value to my life, so helping you with your Spanish is the least I can do. ❤ Sending you hugs and love! Asdruval Guatemala

I never knew I needed to hear you telling us about your life so much

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

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you rock! ❤ thanks for sharing this.

Really interesting Hadar. That is why everyone should experiment this situation. That's really important to understand how to host people in your area. I was bad in school in english. I moved in Uk 3 years and half worked in hospitality and catering. That pushed me to go in front of customer and manage different kind of situation. I remember once in UK I was in charge of the breakfast in Whatley Manor Malmesbury. An american ask me an over easy egg. I asked him three time because I did not know what it was. Then I moved back in the kitchen and said it to the chef. The chef told me listen it is a egg cooked on both side during 2 min. Never seen that in France where I am from. I know today what it is. That the way it works.

I love listening to your stories in Barcelona! ❤

Hi Hadar! You are great! It's strange but I experienced exactly the same situation with a school bus recently, it's clause to my own feeling. We are able to overcome everything I belive that.

Hi Hadar! I wanted to say that I am here for you!! I understand very well your feelings, I came through the same. You are a strong person, just be patient... In the meantime, enjoy the city, which is incredible, go to La Barceloneta, enjoy the beach and enjoy around. 🤗

Just be patient! The Spanish people are very straightforward, but nothing you can’t deal with. Good luck!🙌

Hello Hadar My name is safe from Libya I was following you since the Corona virus year and now I'm going to relocate in Malta and you helped alot with my English language improvement and now I'm getting more inspired by you relocation diaries.Thanks for sharing your story

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

I wish you all the best!! Thank you for this ❤️

Luv that you have been sharing dear and significant steps with our family ya Hadar💕best of luck in Barcelona ❤️💛 Are you excited to watching Barca on the great Camp No 😍😍

Exactly moving to another country is not easy you need to find out new tthings including a different culture too!!! Good luck Hadar!!! By english teacher Ronald from Brazil.

I can imagine now how my sisters felt when they moved to diffrent country. I don't have the courage to do the same, as I'm quite comfortable living here, but maybe one day.

Hello Hadar, your podcast today was so emotional , it resonated so much on me feeling , the same fears emotions ,struggles ,I have had when I moved at least three times from North Algeria first to France, I was a teenager with a bad thick French. I nonetheless managed to become a surgeon urologist then I moved the second time to Quebec Montreal to get degree in urology, new country new rules new habits, new life for almost 2 years, and then back to France south of the France Toulouse, I worked there 15 years comfortable life , convenient easy life .. I felt stuck with no creativity then I made the biggest decision of my life to move to Paris. I left friend , family with so much pain regrets. But this third move was maybe the best thing I ever did. I went out of my comfort zone and realized the best part of my career. I feel deep in my heart all the obstacles you are going through. I’m sure you will succeed with your energy, and. I wish you the best for you and your family in Spain. Barcelona is very close .. 2 hours drive Just saying .. if you go to Toulouse, you have a big apartment with three bedrooms downtown the ancient neighborhood…. Alain Ioualalen

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

Dear Alain, I feel your kindness and generosity through your words, thank you and congratulations for this amazing journey of yours. You are an example for what’s possible! Thank you for the generous invite ❤️

Hello Hadar. Now you can know what is to be students with their fears when they're learning a language. When you describe how you felt about your experience in a new environment like Barcelona with a new language, I remember that I still feel stress and fear about speaking in English. But listening to you is always learning about a language and these experiences will certainly make you even better at teaching languages.

יפה הדר! את תצליחי! הכי חשוב שהעסק שבנית ימשיך להצליח!!

I’d love to hear about your husband’s experience living in Spain too.

Saludos desde Colombia.. he aprendido mucho con tus videos. Espero que todos salga bien en Barcelona.

❤💙💜🤍 love the episode! you're really attractive! thank you for sharing!

H👋 ❤ ❤❤❤ love your speech when you going on and on... when you speak about your daily life in Barcelona...

Thank my Hadar for the class😇

Go on building confidence! What about Catalan? It's a language very used in Barcelona. More than Spanish, I guess.

Bus stops are my WORST nightmare and I avoid them like the plague, in all countries 😆 I've officially gotten lost 90% of the times I've taken a bus lol

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

Hahahahaha thank you for the validation😂🤣😭🥴

So cute to hear your Spanish words !!! 🎉

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

There are more coming!!!

Barcelona is a SUPER welcoming city, we are very used to have visitors and new people joining us, so it might not be as tough as in a small german town for example (😂😂)

Can you imagine that you don't have money and you have to find a job and work in a new country. This is the main fear which usually people face when they relocate to a new country. They need to feed family and they scare to be rejected

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

That’s the hardest. I feel that with all my struggles I still carry a huge privilege having my own business and not struggling financially to get by.

@Irina-jm9rp

3 ай бұрын

This is very good! Other struggles will be slowly disappeared with the time. The most important is that everything is ok with you and your family. Be positive as you are always! Good luck 👍😘🌹

Hadar please come to Mexico we love you more than any country on the planet 🙏

Hay. I really like to listen to you. I like conversation like that, real life conversation ❤

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That is EXACTLY how you feel when you join a new company in a new job position. Especially if it is a big corporation. It is an ugly feeling indeed. It diminishes with time. But i see exactly how you feel. Keep up the good work❤❤❤

@nuria3736

3 ай бұрын

By the way, your eyes tell a lot about your insomnia and some tears. That too will pass😊

Hello Hadar! Hey Barcelona!

Good luck in that city, I will continue to love you the same.

I felt like that going to the gym for the first time even in my own country

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

Right???

good video greetings from the salvador

Super mam

How did you prepare the whole thing to talk about this relocations ? When making the video for us, was it just one time effort right away or did u still make many videos to get the final stuff?

Yeah, Spanish bureocracy is not user-friendly. I konw that stress because I have been working in Poland and UK being spanish, so your message resonates with my experience. But you are doing it ver well.

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I know what it is like to not been capable of advocating for oneself 🤔 (it sucks). In your case it won't be for too long though. You have the tools to catch up fast. You have the ear, your mouth muscles know how to create new sounds and your mind is trained. Also Spanish is an "exact" language. Once you learn how the 28 alphabet characters sound you are all set. I know talking is cheap but enjoy the ride into the unknown. It will be like earning one more strip for the tiger. LOVE

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

Love love!! Thank you!!

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Please, let us know, are you studying the language? Did you study before going to Barcelona? If you are studying the language, which one are you starting to: Spanish or Catalan? Online or attending to a classroom? 😊

Hi Ma'am

I can say that all the languages that exist in the world. Spanish is the easiest of all to learn.

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

I hope so

Quiero escucharte hablar el idioma español.

You went from one potential war to another. What if Catalonia declares independence?

@hadar.shemesh

3 ай бұрын

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You look beautiful. Keep it up. I trust you are going to learn Spanish soon.

I would really like to send you an email that I know is read by you. Would it kindly be possible?