Aprender Espanol

My non-credit spanish class starts tomorrow. It is part one of a five step process to learn to speak spanish. In theory anyway.

I have taken spanish classes before, in junior high and senior high school - but I was not really into the whole learning spanish thing. Yea, a lot of people in Miami speak spanish - but so what.

Cuando usted esta en America, usted es supuesto hablar ingles.

In theory, anyway.

So I learned squat in high school spanish class. Well not exactly squat, I did learn some verbs and stuff. Just not very much. Mostly I simply lacked the motivation to learn.

But now the language class is important for my job. I got my job on a technicality - and as a result my classification and my pay scale is not the same as everyone else in the office. To keep doing what I do it is vital to pick up at least one more language.

My quest to learn spanish will take roughly a year and some change. The community college offers spanish 1 - 4, plus another class called "advanced conversation". Since it is all non-credit the classes are cheap. Spanish 1 is only $88. The same class for credit would be at least twice as much, and possibly more. The quality of instruction is about the same - the difference is that you get a grade for the credit class.

After I pick up spanish, I still need one more foreign language. I am thinking about italian. But this is off in the future. It all depends on what happens to my classification at work, and if I can continue to do what I do.

It will be worth it in the end.