Verb conjugation of "facilitare" in Italian

The third and forth largest economies in the world are growing due to the fact that the countries were investing large resources in education, including foreign language acquisition. English, in this case, was the dominant language.
I was in Vancouver five years ago. I was living in Toronto in Canada with my wife. We worked together in the same office, and we were new there, and we did not know anybody. I was also in Montreal.
Three years ago I was with my friends in South Korea whom I met in my English class in Washington. Then I was in America for another three years, one in Oklahoma and two in Alabama.