Posted by TioLi on May 14, 2001 at 16:28:03:
In Reply to: Why you should learn Spanish posted by Explorer8939 on May 14, 2001 at 15:03:10:
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That was a good post! I just want to add this: Don't wait too long to start, in fact start memorizing "words" now. I had high school spanish and lately no one could understand me. I had screwed up the pronunciation of "i" and "e" by swapping them like we do with street names and other things in So Cal. I have traveled to many places in Mexico for the last fifty years (I'm in my seventies) and language is of value if used in conversation. I could still write to ladies using the amigos.com site. But that is just a start for good conversation, and that is where the fun begins! Last Jan, I went to an immersion language class in Cuernavaca and the person to person drills was the answer for me. There were almost twenty maestras and most just had one or two students for the two, one and a half hour classes. I am happy I finally got to it! The warning that was posted last year by one of us was "do not screw around with the locals where you are attending class". I observed this and I can see how this would be a problem - big time. Mexico DF is just an hour away by almost new Mercedes busses and the cost is $4.40 each way and the gals in the largest city in the world are good, but it takes a lot of "good" research. I think the posts just scratch the surface of this heaven. I knew I was going and I cultivated a female resident of Mexico DF by way of the match site, mentioned above, and had some enjoyable times with her on the week-ends. I'm a long way from fluent in Spanish, so an English speaking guide was certainly handy. I got a total of six hundred dollars for testing a vacine for Johns Hopkins of Balimore. It was oral vacines (for TD)and reporting twice a week along with simple reports. TD is Travelers Disease and I had no problems. The school told me about it and Johns Hopkins choose places like Cuernavaca in several third world countries. This paid most of the tuition for the school. I had one nice time and I lived with a family who had a semi new mansion with two maids/cooks and a gardener. Hated to come home! TioLi (my name is Lee but the maestras could not pronounce it as their english is limited)
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