Learn a new language
This year, my wife and I were looking for new activities to keep life interesting. We wanted to do something together. Since we love to travel, we decided to take up a foreign language course. We ended up signing for Spanish class at the Instituto Cervantes.
Learning a new language is a very interesting thing to do. It forces your brain to think differently, since languages usually have different grammatical rules. It also gives you a peek into other cultures that you might not have been exposed to before.
Spanish is a beautiful (bello) language. It’s especially interesting for Filipinos since a lot of Spanish is embedded into our language, even though we may not realize it. Learning that so many words like mercado, oras, casa and so many others are from Spain makes our language much richer. And Spanish is used in a total of 25 countries, so it’s not a bad language to know at all!
Our class at the Instituto was fun. We enrolled at Nivel (level) 1, which lasted 10 sessions every Saturday. All of our classmates were interesting people, and we think those who would take up a foreign language just for kicks are almost always interesting people. We augmented class with an audiobook for learning Spanish so that we could learn better.
Though we haven’t enrolled for nivel 2 yet, we felt the money was really worth it and plan to continue our classes sometime in the near future. Hasta luego!
More information about Instituto Cervantes:
Website: http://manila.cervantes.es/
Address: 855 T.M. Kalaw St. 1000 Ermita MANILA, Filipinas
Phone:63 2 526 14 82 - 85
Fax:63 2 526 14 49
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