Talking posh

Lesson two and David and Jimena seem to be getting on well, shame she has a boyfriend, but I imagine her Argentine Lawyer novio is abit sexier and more exotic than good old David from Inglaterra...

Jimena is a good teacher too, she is easy to follow, hearing Argentines speaking slowly is unusual here in Buenos Aires, people live fast lives, and conversations usually follow the same pace!

The section of the lesson dedicated to formal greetings is great, because the circle of friends I have here do not really go in for formalities, so it might have been something that passed me by. Que tal? just would not cut it with the immigration officials when I try to cross borders for example!

I’m learning the main lessons that Jimena is trying to drill into David, but I think i’m benefiting most from their casual conversation style and that banter that is passing between them. The screens that pop up showing vocabulary and how to string togetehr sentences are great, but quite fast paced, so it is ideal that I can pause the white board screen and rewind- you certainly can’t do that with a human teacher...well, not so often! I love the guessing games Jimena makes David play, I feel this is a good way to learn spanish and shows learning can be fun, or perhaps that’s just my inner child?! But it is way better than the ‘game’ you play on Rosetta Stone clicking on a picture when you hear the word....huuummm.

Poor David, it seems he met some ‘linda chicas’ in a bar, but they found it amusing to teach him the opposite meaning....oh I can’t even begin to count the number of times I have heard of this happening, and it’s probably happened to me too, I expect I will have a moment of realisation at some point in this course of Bueno, entonces... lessons!

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