Canadian looking for a retirement home

Shaynelle

New member

Member since 08 August 2010

Corozal

Shaynelle

06 August 2013 15:13:05

Shaynelle

06 August 2013 15:13:05

Corozal

We are a Canadian couple in our early 40's, looking for a place to retire and a few countries including Chile are on our list to investigate.

Do we have any Canadians on the forum here who have retired to Chile? I would love to have a few email pen pals to chat with.

Please send me a message directly or respond here.

The biggest question on my mind is, how much Spanish should we know before our first visit to Chile? We plan to fly into Santiago then travel south from there, most likely by public transit.

Thank you for any information!

karen

ViP

Member since 21 June 2013

Port-Louis

karen

07 August 2013 11:23:02

4030

karen

07 August 2013 11:23:02

4030

Port-Louis

Hello Shaynelle.

Welcome to Expat.com

Thanks.

Karen

redoles

Member

Member since 08 February 2011

Santiago

redoles

20 August 2013 19:59:05

redoles

20 August 2013 19:59:05

Santiago

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ricardopadro

Contributor

Member since 11 August 2011

Santiago

ricardopadro

02 September 2013 05:14:10

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ricardopadro

02 September 2013 05:14:10

130

Santiago

Well... chileans donŽt speak fluent english, just 2% of people do, but almost 45% of people will understand what you want to say and will try to help you friendly.

So if you want to come as a tourist with just a couple of weeks studyng spanish, i think you wont have big issues.

Now if you want to live in Chile, i recommend take some classes here, because our spanish is very "special", half of what we speak are chilean words or pronunciations. And if you live here, you will get big issues with english if you want to go to doctor for example, explain address to taxi drivers, go to bank, etc.

Good luck

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