Spanish Lessons

The site we are staying at offer 2 hours of free Spanish lessons each week. There are different classes depending on how much Spanish you already know. Ours doesn't go much beyond "dos cerveza por favor" so Julie and I signed up for the beginners class.

Twenty-eight of us turned up for the first lesson. We were the only English speakers, the rest were a mixture of Dutch, German and French. Our teacher can speak two languages fluently - Spanish (of course!) and English (her native tongue), a little French, but no Dutch or German.

So, she only speaks to us in Spanish, a language that none of us know! It seems to be working though along with plenty of sign language. Maybe we'll learn a lot faster this way - and maybe one day I won't have to start every Spanish conversation with a hopeful "habla Ingles?".