A fun bunch of people gathered last night at Mestizo, and we took turns practicing Spanish by building a sentence that included an infinitive verb form together with the name of a fellow participant. Of course, the weekly exercise is just something to do during a lull in the conversation, and last night we gabbed […]
Four months ago today we started our Spanish conversation group Solo en español. Here are some lessons learned from the last four months: People come and go. In the last 4 months we have had more than 30 different people participate … some come once and never return, others come regularly for awhile until competing […]
I want you to imagine that someone anonymously paid to send you on an exotic vacation to Latin America. You do not know where you were going … you simply have to be a willing participant. After the airplane lands you are immediately whisked away in a limo for a 2 hour drive into the […]
I had 2 revelations last night during our Spanish conversation group. Revelation #1 – Detach We are all at different levels of experience with learning the Spanish language, and we all learn in different ways. Some of us know very little Spanish, others are intermediate through many years of study and practice, and still others […]