'ello from England =]

[Urban Space]

Hi all!

I'm Liam from England, a 15 year old Spanish student! I found this site while looking for spanish podcasts and much preferred your brilliant podcasts to the others! I think it's brillant what you two do and it's really helping me to improve my Spanish! Though I've only been studying Spanish for a year, I can understand everything that's being said in the Advanced-level podcasts (I suppose I'm at an age where I just pick stuff up quickly, hehe!)

Ben, a man I admire, the position you're in is where I'm aspiring to be - translating in Spain! Marina, love the recipes, brilliant =]!

Hope to get to know you all better!

Liam =]

[Brian]

Though I've only been studying Spanish for a year, I can understand everything that's being said in the Advanced-level podcasts (I suppose I'm at an age where I just pick stuff up quickly, hehe!)

Ah to have the sponge-absorbent memory at the age of 15 again.... ;)

Welcome, Liam!

[Ben]

Hi Liam, very nice to have you here, and hope to hear more from you soon! Which part of the UK do you come from?

[Isabella]

Hi. Liam - a welcome from one newcomer to another - and the age difference doesn't make the least bit of difference though when i was 15, I thought that someone over the age of about 40 was just 'past it'!! I'm Welsh - do you want to continue with your spanish studies when you leave high school? [if I'm not being too nosey - one of the privileges of s senior citizen is that one can get away with all sorts of things.] Anyway, good luck and I am sure this site will bring you much pleasure. Isabella

[richardksa]

Ah to have the sponge-absorbent memory at the age of 15 again....

Ah! To be fifteen again, that would be better.;D

[Brian]

Ah! To be fifteen again, that would be better.;D

Are you crazy, man!?!?!? ;)

I wouldn't want to live through those years again for anything. But to have the ability to soak up vast amounts of knowledge effortlessly.... that would be nice. :)

[Heather]

Hi Liam, welcome from another newbie. Your achievements could also be that you're clever or work hard or both but hey don't want you getting big headed so maybe not. :)Heather

[richardksa]

It might be a deadly sin, but there's little wrong with being proud of an achievement. I'VE jusy finished reading my first book in Spanish. Didn't know a word less than twelve months ago. Proud, you bet!!!!!!!!!

[Janeybee]

It might be a deadly sin, but there's little wrong with being proud of an achievement. I'VE jusy finished reading my first book in Spanish. Didn't know a word less than twelve months ago. Proud, you bet!!!!!!!!!


I am so impressed! I always assume that you are an advanced speaker from way back. Inspiring, Richardksa!
I'm still trying to finish one of the three books I started - Rubi, el hada roja; Amber, el hada naranja; and Judy Moody....not tremendously intellectual...and I'm not getting very far!
:)

[Urban Space]

Hi all =]!

Thanks for the warm welcomes!

Ben, I'm from Leicesteshire, in the middle of England =]

And Isabella, yep, I hope to carry on my studies of Spanish and am studying very hard for the build up to my GCSEs now! =]!

See you all around =]

Liam

[Nic]

And Isabella, yep, I hope to carry on my studies of Spanish and am studying very hard for the build up to my GCSEs now! =]!


Welcome! Just wanted to say loads of luck with your GCSE Spanish. I sat mine almost two years ago now (wheres the time gone????) and so long as you keep at it you'll do brilliant. If there's anything I can do to help just ask ;D

[Urban Space]

Thanks Nic =]! And thanks again to everyone who's welcomed me so warmly =]!

Liam

[Edith]

I'VE jusy finished reading my first book in Spanish. Didn't know a word less than twelve months ago.

:clap:

Which book was it?

[Flexichick]

Welcome, Liam....I'd agree - I'd love to have the ability to absorb as quickly as I did at 15, but wouldn't want to live through that again.

Am about to hit the big 4-0 in May. Woohoo!

Richard - congratulations! I had a giggle at Janey saying she thought you were an advanced speaker from "way back".....she didn't just call you old, did she? ;)

[richardksa]

Edith, not great literature I'm afraid. I it was a translation of Agatha Christie's Poirot short stories. As mentioned in other posts, I didn't want to get problems with Spanish street slang. So it was an easy reader, but it has increased my vocab ten fold. I'm off to Madrid again in three weeks, so I shall haunt the bookshops for something a little more challenging.

Flexichica, (the name needed espanolising,) but there again, I am not that young anyway, so water off a ducks back, and all that. Still, I have a Spanish age of only 11 months and I am quite pleased with my reading progess. I am hoping, by this time next year, to be almost, although at no great rate, to be fluent-ish. Conversing is, por supuesto, es otra asunto. But then I have no one to converse with. Still, as mentioned above, it's Madrid again soon, so more scope for practice.