Havana Language Swap

MadgeBadge · 22-07-2009, 10:16

Has anyone been to the language swap in havana? I was just wondering if it was any use at all. I can never make it for the ilac tuesday night swap, so I'm checking out other options.

Tchaikovsky · 26-07-2009, 20:23

Yeah, I went for the first time a few weeks ago; it's good fun, will definitely go back either this week or next.

CUCINA · 15-09-2009, 21:06

You're Havana a laugh? Sorry, silly joke!
I know this thread has been inactive for a while, but as I was browsing through the different Spanish threads, I remembered a book I read once by world memory champion Dominic O'Brien and I was fascinated by it...some great study tips in general, with really good mnemonic tricks and very easy to read, very down-to-earth style. The book is called "How To Develop A Perfect Memory" ((as far as I can remember!).
Personally, I've had an interest in Spanish since I was 13 or 14, it was easily my best subject in Secondary school. I've re-visited the study of it on and off for years', going to night classes etc, but never really got to grips with it. I would have loved to have had the opportunity to live in Spain, where necessity being the mother of invention, you would be forced to learn.
I think the best place I ever went to for Spanish was the "INSTITUTO CERVANTES", in Ballsbridge in Dublin, they dealt not with just the language but it also had a strong cultural ethic.
I remember one slightly embarrassing incident in a class there where the teacher was going through colours and she pointed at my head and said "grease"! Of course she was actually saying "gris", referring to my grey hair, but my face went muy rojo!

22-07-2009, 10:16	#1
MadgeBadge Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dublin Posts: 211 Adverts \| Friends	Havana Language Swap Has anyone been to the language swap in havana? I was just wondering if it was any use at all. I can never make it for the ilac tuesday night swap, so I'm checking out other options.

26-07-2009, 20:23	#2
Tchaikovsky Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: BANana Republic: Septic Isle Posts: 585 Adverts \| Friends	Yeah, I went for the first time a few weeks ago; it's good fun, will definitely go back either this week or next. __________________ I'm as serious as cancer when I say that rhythm is a dancer.

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15-09-2009, 21:06	#3
CUCINA Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 144 Adverts \| Friends	You're Havana a laugh? Sorry, silly joke! I know this thread has been inactive for a while, but as I was browsing through the different Spanish threads, I remembered a book I read once by world memory champion Dominic O'Brien and I was fascinated by it...some great study tips in general, with really good mnemonic tricks and very easy to read, very down-to-earth style. The book is called "How To Develop A Perfect Memory" ((as far as I can remember!). Personally, I've had an interest in Spanish since I was 13 or 14, it was easily my best subject in Secondary school. I've re-visited the study of it on and off for years', going to night classes etc, but never really got to grips with it. I would have loved to have had the opportunity to live in Spain, where necessity being the mother of invention, you would be forced to learn. I think the best place I ever went to for Spanish was the "INSTITUTO CERVANTES", in Ballsbridge in Dublin, they dealt not with just the language but it also had a strong cultural ethic. I remember one slightly embarrassing incident in a class there where the teacher was going through colours and she pointed at my head and said "grease"! Of course she was actually saying "gris", referring to my grey hair, but my face went muy rojo!