"Learning a language is fun", they say. Well, yeah, maybe, although it pains me to agree with an old university lecturer who we used to call Danger Mouse... I'm a firm believer that, despite having survived a university education in one or more languages,  you never truly learn a language, or feel confident in it for that matter, until you've been there; until you've lived with it, been immersed and surrounded by natives; until you've learned the slang - and that's true for whether you want to be "down with the kids" or not. Language is ever evolving, and so some of the Spanish that your … [Read more...]