I wrote an article in the new yorker. I live in a city. I have a few of open spaces. I am good at cooking. I have perfect pitch. I do not have kids. In my youth I could spell competitively. I do not have a car. I studied abroad in Madrid while attending college. Business was my major in college. I don't speak much Spanish.
I live in the country. I have kids. I have a honda. I do not have a job. I can cook. I am interested in learning new recipes. I speak Spanish. I sometimes tutor people who want to learn spanish. I studied abroad in Spain while attending college. Spanish was my major in college.
Do you think you could tutor me in Spanish sometime? Sure, I'd be happy to! Any reason you're excited about learning it? I got to do an extensive report and need to interview the Hispanic population so if I could speak the language that will help a lot. Oh wow, yeah it would. Even just some conversational Spanish would probably make them happier to talk to you, to show you're making an effort. Exactly.  I will still have a professional translator to help but this report is mainly about immigrant just crossed the boarder.  If I show up just as a regular, I may not able to gain their trust and get to the bottom of the story. For sure. That's a super timely topic to be writing about. Is it going to be a political article? In a way yes.  We try to understand why they will take all the risk to come over without knowing what lies ahead. That makes sense. How long will you be interviewing them? And when are you going? Gotta plan my curriculum accordingly! We plan to leave in about a month and will be interviewing different people.  Each person we plan to interview will be about 2 to 3 hours.  I hope that's enough time for the last minute training. Sure, we'll go over what we can! It's always more exciting for me to teach people who are actually going to be using the language. Sometimes it's just students, which is still great that they're learning, but they might just use it on tests which is less rewarding. That's also what I worry most because in conversation my brain doesn't wrap around as fast as reading it.  The tenses always got me. Yeah I was definitely better at reading before speaking, though I think that's mainly because of how it gets taught in schools. Really the best way to learn is to practice, so we can do a lot of that