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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Over the past three years I’ve made a concerted effort to improve my Spanish and last November this culminated in me moving to Panama for five months, then travelling in Colombia and Ecuador, before finally cycling along the south eastern coast of Spain until the end of June. To improve my Spanish along the way, […]
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 […]
Discovering Bocas del Toro
During the course of the months I spent in Bocas del Toro, I became extremely fond of the destination. You would expect this to be self-evident when living and working in a Caribbean paradise, yet each year some visitors are disappointed by their trip to the archipelago. This says more about them than Bocas […]
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 […]