A: Do you learn these languages to a higher level through school through university or did you do it in in spite of going to school and those classes and going to uni?
B: Well, what I know now, I think more maybe like in spite, at least like in the beginning.
" Here, B is saying that it was experiences outside of school and university that helped in learning the languages, and that school and university made learning the languages more difficult .
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"In spite of" means the same thing as "despite."
Here, B is saying that it was experiences outside of school and university that helped in learning the languages, and that school and university made learning the languages more difficult.