First task - Learn Spanish

Trip Start Jul 09, 2008
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

The guy who owns the apartment gave us a call to make sure everything is ok. Everyone here seems so helpful. He's actually up in Seattle at the moment and travels back and forth between Chile and the US all the time. Turns out he owns both this apartment and the one next to it. The one next door is his office so there's only his assistant there through the day and no one at night. Hopefully we'll have the internet on this week.
 
And... we've enrolled in Spanish lessons next week! We're going to do a one week super intensive course at a Spanish school. 7 hours a day for 5 days. I'm so looking forward to it. I've wanted to speak another language for so long and now I feel like I'm joining this secret club of second language speakers.  There's something intriguing about the fact that someday soon I could be in an English speaking country and be able to listen in to Spanish conversations. You know when you're sitting somewhere like on a bus or train and there's people speaking another language and you can't help but wonder what they're talking about. Well now I may actually know.
 
 I have to say, it is a bit of information overflow just walking around the streets. Normally when all the street signs and ads are in English you just read them without thinking. When you're on holiday in another country it doesn't matter that you can't read the signs and you just ignore them. But here I'm seeing Spanish everywhere and I'm constantly trying to translate it into to English and learn some more words. So my mind is working constantly wherever we go.  
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kenryan
kenryan on Jul 20, 2008 at 04:02PM

practice spanish for free now
I think you will find the following pages very useful in your quest to learn spanish:

http://www.studyspanish.com/pronunciation/index.htm

http://www.studyspanish.com/travel/index.htm

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