Better late than never, this is the final progress video from my time learning Spanish abroad. Recorded in Gibraltar back in June, the video includes some of the highlights of the cycling trip that started in Valencia. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on my blog, my Spanish skills had probably already peaked by the time I […]
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Reflections on a year learning Spanish abroad
Two months have passed since I returned from my year learning Spanish abroad. I’ve moved to a new city and started a new job, yet a final word reflecting on my journey remains to be written. My year can effectively be broken down into three parts. From November through to March, I spent five months […]
Progress Report: Six Months Learning Spanish
In this video I reflect how quickly time has passed. Since my previous report, I’ve left South America, returned briefly to the UK for a friend’s stag do, and flown to Spain to begin my final leg of my adventure: cycling from Valencia to Seville (or possibly Gibraltar). This video was recorded a little while […]
Progress Report: Five Months in Latin America
Since my last video, I have travelled with my girlfriend from Bocas del Toro to Bogota in Colombia. While this has given me lots of opportunities to practise my Spanish, this hasn’t quite matched my 20 hours of tuition I was receiving every week at Habla Ya. Consequently, my fluency has regressed. This is something […]
Progress Report: Three months in Panama
After spending a week exploring the mountains around Boquete, I returned to the Habla Ya school in Bocas del Toro, where I was based for seven weeks in the run up to Christmas. This time around I’ve been focussing more than ever on improving my Spanish. You can read more detail about what I’ve been […]
Back in Bocas del Toro
It’s now been two weeks since I returned to Bocas. Although my scheduled bus from Boquete never arrived, when another one did, the journey across the mountains to the port of Almirante was spectacular. I loved my time exploring Panama City and Boquete, but as we left the mainland, I was excited to be heading […]