Hablando español como los locales

Hi there, welcome back to Spanish Facts In this episode I’m going to interview my good friend Fiona from England, Fiona learned Spanish at school with very little success, the first time she went to Spain she was able to say only a few sentences but she couldn’t communicate with the locals. When she moved to Spain she was living with 4 guys who only spoke Spanish so it was very difficult for her to communicate but it forced her to learn Spanish faster, the main challenge for Fiona was her perfectionist personality, she didn’t dare to speak because she was afraid of making mistakes or speak with an accent but her Spanish friends encouraged her to keep trying and to speak. After a while she was able to speak fluently but then everything changed when she visited Mexico the firs time and she couldn’t understand a thing, the main problem was that locals were speaking using many slang words that she didn’t know, but she was determined to speak so she wrote a list with every new slang word she learned and she memorized them all. She is now leaving in Mexico and she speaks fluently, she knows many slang words and she is very good integrated with the locals and their way of living. Let’s hear about Fiona and he experience learning Spanish.