I took all the teacher certification courses in undergrad as I planned to be a high school Spanish teacher. I majored in Spanish as well. (I ended up deviating into social work instead) to practice teaching skills, I worked regularly in the college tutoring center helping other students learning Spanish. As a Spanish major, I routinely wrote 12-page papers in Spanish, read novels in Spanish, and spoke almost entirely Spanish in my classes for all four years. All told, I spent 10 years studyin...