¿Habla usted español?

The first step on my journey has been to start learning Spanish. I first developed the desire to do this when I visited Cuba in 2005. It's a beautiful language, and as I discovered while in Cuba, quite similar to French. Similar enough that at the time, while I was still fluent in French, I managed to understand a lot of what was said to me.

I figured actually going somewhere to work with people who speak the language was the perfect reasoning to both learn and have the opportunity to use my newly learned skills.

So far I've only had two lessons (with an amazing friend who I am SO grateful for doing this for me), but I think I'm doing pretty well. I've only learned some of the basics (Dates, Alphabet, greetings, the two forms of To Be, pronouns and some basic items), but I seem to be handling them fairly well. I've started writing all my dates on my notepads in Spanish, and keep sticky notes on different items as a reminder of what they are.

Unfortunately I can't say I've started much else in prep yet as things have been crazy busy, but it's going to be coming up fast.

Buenos Dias mi amigos!