If you want to go to work - make contact with local students. In Spain without friends it is difficult to find even the simplest job. At the same time much anyone not expect, trust but watch whom you trust. Very important: Recently arrived people can know our people very well. Can offer to find a job or an apartment for the money and throw. Never give away your passport!!! Send resume in accommodation in the season may be going to work, especially given the knowledge of the English language. A clear advantage of those who are fluent in the Spanish language, before by the Spaniards lies primarily in the fact that Spaniards very often have NO OTHER language besides his own, I don't know. Speak English with the worst accent in French too. The closest language to Portuguese - most do not understand or want to understand. I say this from personal experience, as she can speak 6 (including Russian, which, in particular, is taught as a foreign language). Their own language, the Spanish know that, too bad. Russian speakers, who speaks Spanish, is very attractive candidates for the employer, provided that Russian, and Spanish they know WELL. Russian language is now highly prized in Europe, but not in itself, but as a complement to other skills and knowledge, including language. Courses generally taught to explain. To translate is another matter entirely, there is generally insufficient knowledge of one language. Need to be an EDUCATED person, or imminent incidents is at best ridiculous, usually dramatic.