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| Dagger Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4127 days ago 5 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 2 01 February 2013 at 6:05pm | IP Logged |
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I am so pleased that I just had to share this with people who would understand. My group of friends don't get
my language fascination. I know you all do. :) I have a penpal exchange partner who lives in Central America. She came to New Orleans to visit her family members who live there. It also happened to be my birthday weekend. She invited me to come visit her. Her family was kind enough to let me stay at their house as well. So there I went for the weekend... My friend has a very basic level of English, so we talked in Spanish the entire 3 days. It was the longest I've ever spoken only in Spanish. We spent one day in the French Quarter and it was so fun to translate menus for her, etc. You can imagine the cultural shock when we turned the corner on to Bourbon Street. It was a tremendous experience and my confidence in Spanish is through the roof right now. It inspired me to come home and start really digging in to some of the nuances I've glossed over in the past. I'm getting very close to native levels and I'm determined to punch through. Living in Florida, I have access to a large number of native speakers, and I've been forcing every conversation into Spanish when I bump into people at the supermarket, etc. Thanks for listening! 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5056 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 2 of 2 01 February 2013 at 6:37pm | IP Logged |
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Excellent! That's what it's all about, Dagger, and welcome to the forum! When you learn to communicate in another language, it broadens your world and your mind. It is a wonderful thing to have given yourself, the power to communicate in another language, to reach out to and learn about other cultures in a way that is not fully available to monolinguals.
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