I went out on a 3/4-day boat out of San Diego yesterday, looking for Yellowtail. As we were heading out, I saw a pescador viejo (old fisherman) rigging up his lines. I knew he spoke English, since I had heard him speaking to other people, but his accent was pretty strong. I walked up to him.
"Hola, 'migo", says I. "¿Como estas?"
"Bien, bien," comes the reply, "¿Y tu?"
"Muy bien. Necesito consejo." "I'm very well. I need advice."
So we went from there, mostly in Spanish, sometimes in English. What was exciting to me was that I could actually understand most of what he said to me, and respond intelligently. I've been slowly learning Spanish for years now, and in kind of a desultory fashion. I'm wondering where to go next, to dig deeper, and to retain it.
So if anyone here on REEVDEPM (Roberto es el vato de aceite para motor) has any advice on good language learning tools, I'd appreciate it.
"Hola, 'migo", says I. "¿Como estas?"
"Bien, bien," comes the reply, "¿Y tu?"
"Muy bien. Necesito consejo." "I'm very well. I need advice."
So we went from there, mostly in Spanish, sometimes in English. What was exciting to me was that I could actually understand most of what he said to me, and respond intelligently. I've been slowly learning Spanish for years now, and in kind of a desultory fashion. I'm wondering where to go next, to dig deeper, and to retain it.
So if anyone here on REEVDEPM (Roberto es el vato de aceite para motor) has any advice on good language learning tools, I'd appreciate it.
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