Learning Spanish

I’ve mentioned many times on previous posts the fun I’ve had learning Spanish. The best way for me has been one to one lessons with Spanish speakers, not professional teachers. I pay the same rate as for a cleaner which is what these people do to supplement their income.

As a bonus I get beautiful young women in their twenties coming to my house and hanging on my every word. As a man in his fifties this is intoxicating stuff, how else would you meet them? I don’t know how my wife allows it! You soon get very close and hear all their secrets and problems and you can get stuff off your chest as well. The relationship is more confessor than friend so you can ask things you could never get away with normally. As they are here (in London) on student visas they soon go home and pass you on to another one.

I discovered Colombia through one of my teachers who invited me to Barranquilla for her wedding and allowed me to stay at her house and meet her friends and family.

I’ve read about one to one courses in Latin America (not Colombia) staying with a local family which I thought sounded fun but by then my Spanish was too good.

So my question is, how many of you are learning Spanish this way? I only hear of people going to group lessons which I think is a terrible way of learning.

By el flaco on May 16, 2008, 03:11 in Learn Spanish.

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