Spanish for Beginners MOOC it is then, interesting fom ethnography perspective but will I be confident enough to use on holiday?!😶 #mscedc
— Nigel Painting (@nigelchpainting) February 10, 2017
Edit: 08/04/2017 – I’m actually learning more and faster by using the phone based app ‘Memrise’. Â This uses spaced-learning and frequent retrieval to reinforce learning and exposes the user to different regional accents speaking the same words.
I never have any trouble learning a language when my ability to communicate, eat, and generally enjoy life depends on it. If you are in a place where you don’t have any choice to speak a language, you might find out that your hunger overcomes any confidence issues 😉
Yes I’ve been in that situation a couple of times and it’s definitely an encouragement to ‘have a try’. Usually everyone I meet is so good at speaking English, or so keen try out what they do know it’s rare that it’s necessary to even try. I do think it’s appreciated when I do though 🙂