When you have been a good girl and someone sends some karma ;-)

I am a good girl

Stars come with amount of posts, I think ;-) very teckie.

Better keep posting then

That is good though, You could learn Spanish

absolutely.........my kids speak better spanish than the other english kids at school (their teachers reckon they're pretty much fluent)- even those who have been here longer than us

I swear it's because they only watched spanish tele for over 3 years until a couple of months ago

Much of my initial Spanish I learnt was from TV, more specifically from The Fresh Prince!!


I had very poor grammar when I first started!

the Fresh Prince!! love that programme


but no wonder your grammar was bad

It was made worse by the fact that my OH was a Basque, so she hated Spanish and spoke it with real contempt.

we had a Basque boy stayed with us last summer....he was a little sh*t anyway - but he didn't want to speak castellano to us - he was actually here to learn english - but there was no way he would deign to try that

eventually he realised he was going to be very lonely & hungry if he didn't communicate

I don't think it helped much that a the other 3 boys with us at the time were from this region & spoke valenciano to each other...(no problem for me - my kids speak it too & I understand quite a bit) but his attitude was 'I am Basque (in fact they were his first words to us) & you are all nothing'


we have told the language school that we don't want him back this year............

I am
I didn't say it was a disadvantage, but they do speak so quickly on Spanish radio

when we first came I would concentrate on the adverts.....they tend to speak slowly & are repeated very frequently

When I first went out there I remember sitting trying to listen to a commentary of a football match, and thinking....."Oh my Christ I will never ever learn this language!"

Did you start uncontrollably buying lots of things

nah...........not me
I am one of those rare women that doesn't really enjoy shopping!