Would a six week homestay in Venezuela improve my Spanish?”
But it depends on your own attitude. I’ve found in my travels that many outside the US speak English pretty well, and will try to speak it with you–so you don’t have to try to speak their language! Now, that makes it easy to get lazy and not have to learn the new language, so you will have to make the effort to immerse yourself in the Venezuelan life and speak the language there, rather than depending on them to speak English to you. This happened to me (although I’m not complaining as mine was a very short immersion into a different language) when one of my students in Italy did almost all my translating for me. While I appreciate her help, it did allow me to be lazy and not have to learn the language as much. You should be able to pick up quite a bit of the language in 6 weeks, particularly if you are living with the people in a home rather than alone most of the time in a hotel. You will need lots of interaction with the people to pick up the language. You might benefit a bit from
