Been speaking broken spanish for about 9 years now , so I decided earlier this year to buy a program,get serious , and start learning to speak it right . I picked up a program called "Rocket Spanish" over the more popular "Rosetta Stone" program . So far I am very impressed . My wife is fluent in Spanish and we now have a game where we try to speak nothing but Spanish as long as we can . You can get pretty fluent in about 6 months if to stay after it .
Its funny , the looks I get , When I order food from a spanish waiter or waitess all in Spanish .
Its also amazing to watch how a spanish looking person reacts when I speak with them in their own language . Kind of throws them off guard for a second and then they start rattleing off "Machine Gun" spanish back to me . Usually I can only pick out every other word at best .
Its my way of respecting their culture and country when I am in Panama . They are very forgiving when I completely mutilate a spanish word .
I am also trying to learn the "Bugle ( Bugg -Lay) Indian" dialect . That is much harder and no courses are offered . It is a beautiful sounding dialect that seems to almost sound French at times
"""" Chec La Manay"""'
Translation : How are you ?
Its funny , the looks I get , When I order food from a spanish waiter or waitess all in Spanish .
Its also amazing to watch how a spanish looking person reacts when I speak with them in their own language . Kind of throws them off guard for a second and then they start rattleing off "Machine Gun" spanish back to me . Usually I can only pick out every other word at best .
Its my way of respecting their culture and country when I am in Panama . They are very forgiving when I completely mutilate a spanish word .
I am also trying to learn the "Bugle ( Bugg -Lay) Indian" dialect . That is much harder and no courses are offered . It is a beautiful sounding dialect that seems to almost sound French at times
"""" Chec La Manay"""'
Translation : How are you ?