University of Liechtenstein Blog

The 2025 event year at the University of Liechtenstein had two absolute highlights: the Spring Party in February and the legendary Halloween Party in October.

This winter semester, the mini events organised by the Spinnerei once again showed how valuable small breaks from everyday university life can be.

Living in America has been exciting and fulfilling, especially about language. I was never very good at English at school, and to be honest, I never really liked speaking it.

When I first arrived in Italy for my semester abroad, I knew that language would be one of my biggest challenges. Since I don’t speak Italian, I expected daily communication to be quite difficult.

While in France, coping with the language was pretty hard at the beginning because I do not speak French. I felt rather insecure whenever I tried to speak it. Now that I have been here for two months and have been learning the language, it’s been getting a little easier.

As preparation for my stay in Vietnam I switched my Duolingo to Vietnamese and was eager to learn. I practiced quite a bit everyday and felt like I made some reasonable progress over time. As soon as I arrived though, I realized that the locals could not even understand me saying basic words. I pronounced them so harsh with my German speaking background that for them it sounded like I would speak a different language.

I have been living in Madrid for almost two months now and it has been an amazing experience so far. At the beginning everything felt overwhelming, not only because I was living alone for the first time and meeting so many new people but also because of the language. Spanish felt fast, confusing and sometimes intimidating and I was nervous about making mistakes or not understanding what was being said.

We arrived on the 20th of September in the Eternal City. I don’t know how to describe it, but this might be the best decision I’ve ever made in my life: moving to a different country, immersing myself in another culture in my twenties. Yes, I’ve been to Rome before—two years ago, to be exact. I fell in love with this city, its people, its culture, and of course, the food.