Learning Spanish While Sailing

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Guest post by Bliss at blissbloggin.blogspot.com

I had one Spanish class in third grade because I was a Texas kid. In my 20s I went to Mexico with two other women, we spent a couple of weeks playing around with an old Spanish textbook we found. When my husband and I sailed to Mexico in 1997 we took a Jr. College course, but didn’t finish it. I still have the textbook. I also have Spanish for dummies, a couple of good dictionaries, a verb book, and I use Ultralingua on my computer for translations.

But best of all I found a teacher in Guaymas, 20 min. from home, who spends an hour with me on Spanish and an hour singing Mexican songs with me. I’ve learned a lot about pronunciation and Mexican culture by singing. She’s helping me translate my blog into Spanish, goes over newspaper articles with me so I’m beginning to read more Mexican news, and helped me break into conjugating, an area where I was clueless. I could be working a lot harder (and plan to) but I’m already able to have limited conversations with Mexicans. It’s my goal to be able to have unlimited conversations on any subject and make friends with Mexicans wherever I go.

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