How I started to learn conversational Spanish

It’s not a usual museum;)

How I started to learn conversational Spanish? It was more than 10 years ago…

I fell in love with a Spanish guy! He was one of the reasons why I decided to travel independently to Spain and have fun! I was curious about this country, culture, lifestyle, architecture, food, music, people. I love travelling so it was a fantastic adventure and challenge for me to go there.

Famous Bilbao

At that time I knew some Spanish words – the most common ones only, as “hola”, “gracias”, “buenos dias” and a couple more but I was ready to go anyway. I knew I would learn basic conversational Spanish there. Well, when I arrived to Madrid I found out quite quickly that few people spoke English!!! Now after all those years it still hasn’t changed much, so it is a great advice for anyone travelling to Spain independently to learn some basic Spanish beforehand. Of course those of you who belong to Couchsurfing project and don’t speak Spanish can relax

Santiago de Compostella

But coming back to my first Spanish adventure…. I stayed in Spain for 2 months, visited Madrid, Valladolid, Santiago de Compostela, Salamanca. The great thing is that much of that time I was on my own and was really forced to learn conversational Spanish. I did perfectly well!! There are in fact many similarities between English and Spanish, so with my determination and focus and of course will to survive I came back knowing decent bunch of useful Spanish words and expressions. I was happy to learn basic Spanish for free But most of all I knew I became passionate about Spain and everything related. And my adventure with this culture has begun…