So we had our last Spanish lesson today. Are we fluent - no of course not - we only had four weeks of lessons. But whereas at the start I could just about manage hello, goodbye, and to ask for two beers please, I can now string together whole sentences in the present, future and three different past tenses.
OK so it takes me a while, I still make lots of mistakes and I seem to be incapable of pronouncing my 'j's properly, but actually I know that I now have the basics of a new language. We are both under orders from our teachers to keep practising, and we do intend to. Hopefully with time to consolidate what we've learnt, we will be able to speak basic Spanish more naturally, and then we can focus on picking up more vocabulary. But importantly we should now (with the aid of a dictionary) be able to speak enough to deal with any problems that we find ourselves with, and be able to have a conversation with people that we meet - even if it is a bit stilted and we sound like the policeman in the series 'allo allo'.
So in case they happen to read this, a big thank you to everyone at the Ayres de Español language school. Thanks in particular to our teachers Paula and Cecilia who made our lessons enjoyable and who both showed remarkable patience with us. We would certainly recommend either of them, or our stand in teachers Gladys and Mariana, to anyone thinking of learning Spanish in Buenos Aires.
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