![]() ![]() I enjoy learning about other people’s lives in a way that normalises my own experiences, or offers me an emotionally-charged escape from them. I bought this book ages and ages and ages ago, back when I was studying Spanish at Birkbeck, which I did for two academic years from the autumn of 2012.Īs you will have noticed, if you’re reading this blog, I like to read. ![]() So I abandoned the poetry collection I was trying to get into and instead pulled this book, New Penguin Parallel Text Short Stories In Spanish, out of the pile of to-be-read books that it has been in for probably longer than half a decade. ![]() I’m reading in Spanish, but it’s hard for me, and I’m slow. So though, yes, I am having lots of small interactions in Spanish and, sometimes, some actual conversations, I’m not quite as immersed as I need to be for my grasp of the language to balloon. My Spanish abilities haven’t accelerated in the way I’d hoped they would, though knowing I’d be spending 40 plus hours a week learning how to teach English probably should have given me a bit of a clue. In case you haven’t noticed, me and my dog are in Spain now, and one of the things I’m trying to do – while sorting myself a highigh-quality tefl qualification – is actually practice my Spanish. ![]()
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