Learn To Speak Spanish Online And It Might Save Your
Life!
Well, I didn't learn to speak Spanish online, but knowing how to
speak Spanish did help to save my life, really. I will tell you all about it in a moment.
First though, a little background is required. You see, I found myself to be a single
dad with 4 teenagers, all of whom needed a lot of love and attention. All teenagers need love and affection, but
without a mother present, the need was only magnified.
So, I got the clever idea of trying to find a suitable partner south of the border,
for myself and for my children. I figured that a Latina would be much more inclined to adopt my family and be
willing to help than any local woman.
Years ago I had lived in Spain, so my Spanish language skills were pretty good, I was
always adventurous, and, all in all, the idea made sense to me at the time.
You must also figure in the stress factor of working 50 hours a week, doing all of
the doctor/dentist appointments, school visits, sports (at one time I had them on 4 different basketball teams!),
and rides to part-time jobs, friends, etc.
I began this project by trying to learn to speak Spanish online, and soon I had made
friends with a woman in Mexico. You don't need to learn to speak Spanish online to meet a Latina, but that is
actually a good way.
So, off I went to lovely Mexico to visit the woman I had met. She was very
enthusiastic and eager to have me come for a visit. Now, this visit was quite interesting, to say the least, but
that is another story. This story is about how you should learn to speak Spanish online to save your life!
My Mexican potential wife and partner was really not at all what I was looking for,
but I was booked to stay in Central Mexico for 10 days.
Realistically, my only option was to make the best of it and learn all I could
about speaking Spanish, Mexican culture, how the interior social life really was, and so on. This was actually much
better than trying to learn to speak Spanish online, but it sure was more complicated.
Eventually, this led me to a very remote state park in the middle of somewhere I have
know idea where. My lady wanted to take me hiking to visit a hidden waterfall, deep in the forest. Sounded fun, so
we ate breakfast at the local market and took off.
The breakfast was at an open air market, complete with mangy dogs and lots of
homemade food. I wanted to be like the locals, so I ate what they ate-big mistake. I was soon a basket case of
diarrhea and weakness.
After drinking some fruity concoction that was supposed to cure me, we left for the
waterfall. I was a bit better, but still really weak. This made me walk much slower than normal, and I soon found
myself wondering why there were mansions out in the middle of this park.
Very quietly, she told me that they were narco-trafficker mansions. I asked her if
this bothered her, but she rolled her eyes and told me it was us stupid Americans who had the drug habit.
To her and most locals, it was just another type of crop to farm.
I was taking pictures of a mansion, when suddenly I realized I was all alone and
there was a pick-up truck coming up the tiny trail toward me. Hmm.. . I didn't think this little trail could even
support a truck.
To my great dismay, the truck had 6 passengers, 3 in front and 3 in back. They were
Mestizos, or half Indian and half Spanish. These people are very dark and have deep black eyes, and I was scared.
Really scared. Probably, they were really kind-hearted, and read stories to their children at night, but this was
different.
They stopped, and all of them walked over to me, with huge machetes in their hands!
Oh my god! I am dead, they are going to chop me up and throw me in the forest. Nobody will ever know what
happened!
I had one choice, as I saw it: to talk to them. I took a slow, deep breath, played as
casual as I could and started chatting with them in Spanish.
Amazingly, they relaxed, became friendly, and nodded me on my way. They pretended to
cut the brush on the side of the trail and I walked as fast as I could without appearing to hurry, on my way!
Now, this is to tell you: you need to learn to speak Spanish online! Learning online
is the fastest way to become conversant, aside from immersing yourself in the country and culture. You don't have
to get in a situation like I did to appreciate your Spanish language skills, but you will certainly be able to make
your own memories and friends.
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