Learning Spanish and gynaecology

I don't know about you, but I wasn't good at languages at school. In fact I boycotted it. I felt my school had conned me into taking a language. Actually I'll tell you the story .. this is absolutely true.

When I was, oh, so high, I'd wanted to be a doctor and then I decided I wanted to be a gynaecologist. I was a bit of a late developer and I'm sure I'd never seen the relevant body part when I decided this, but, this was when I was choosing my options, and I asked the biology teacher and she said that the international language for gynaecologists was German. So I opted for that.

I wrote to a gynaecologist and asked if that was true. He wrote back and said it wasn't. I'll bet he was laughing all day, can you imagine?

So from that day on, actually, I just messed about in that class and disrupted the whole thing. They'd lied to me.

Anyway, enough from the soul. My point is, I was never very good at languages, and learning to speak another one has always seemed like a distant dream.

Intellectually, I'm good, though. I feel like I should be able to do this .. 400 million people speak Spanish, how hard can it be?

So I bought books and so on and they are OK, but there's a lot of talk about luggage and how to wonder if your room has a shower or not and I wanted something more real than that.

So that's why I'm recommending this course to everyone. It's really helped me. It's Spanish in 12 days, but I don't think that's the main advantage. The key thing for me is how good a grounding it gives you. Upon these foundations you can build forever. On luggage and bathrooms, there's no future. For people learning Spanish for their work (which I seem to be hearing a lot about), this is great. Take a look for yourself.

Get a little Latin spirit

What is it about the Latin spirit that we love so much? The food? For sure. The dancing? Oh yes. Alcohol related fun? Certainly. The festivals? Definitely.

Wouldn't knowing some of the language turn this to the max? Sure.

So here's a thing. I've found a course you can download right now, that only takes 12 days, and it teaches you a really solid Spanish foundation. A foundation so solid you won't be struggling for words any more, you'll be able to say what you want, in Spanish, easily and fluently. Try it, learn a little Spanish.

So there we were in the Seychelles ...

So there we were in the Seychelles back from a daytrip and looking for a taxi to take us back to our side of the island when a couple beckoned us over and offered us a lift. They were about the same age as us, and they'd spotted us in the hotel.

They turned out to be a really nice Spanish couple, but we struggled with language. They knew we were English because we had red sunburned noses! The language thing was so difficult we never really got together after that, yet we all wanted to. Really disappointing.

I'd always been really bad at languages at school, I was science all the way. But I resolved then to learn Spanish. After all, it's probably the biggest non-English language in the world that is relatively easy to learn. I mean, there's Chinese, but .. maybe another day.

Over the years I bought books and created my own systems for learning, and, yes maybe I learned something. But here's what was missing. I wasn't creating a good foundation. I needed structure to hang my knowledge on.

Here's what I'm using at the moment. It's just a twelve day course .. but I'm just doing it when I can, I'm pretty busy, but I'm definitely feeling like this is going to get me speaking Spanish. I feel really good about this one, it's called Learn Spanish Fast. Just wanted to share :-)