We are learning Spanish around here. The whole family. Well, Sarah is still working on learning English, but she’ll probably pick up some too. I totally used Google Translate for that title sentence, so if it’s wrong, blame Google. :)

I studied Spanish for several years in high school, and I actually got to a point where I could read and write it pretty well. I never could speak or understand it nearly as well, and I’ve since forgotten most of what I learned. But as I study, it is coming back to me. I think it’s still in there somewhere.

I’ve been wanting to brush up for several years, but now I have a new motivation: Anna wants to learn. And why not? We can learn anything we want to, right? Learning a second language as a family sounds like a great idea to me.

So at the dinner table, we’re going through a little e-book that introduces some very basic common words and phrases. I’ve bookmarked some websites that have free video/audio lessons. We have a couple of Spanish-speaking friends who would love to help us out. So that will get us started. And for myself, since I’d like to progress at a faster rate? I’ve pulled out my old high school textbooks—which were an old edition even back then, dated 1984—and have started going through them. I know learning from books will not create fluency, but it should help build enough vocabulary to converse a little. And I’m a visual learner; hearing it is necessary, but I HAVE to see it as well to get it cemented in my brain.

Well, ¡hasta luego!

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