Language Learning
I Learnt My Spanish in a Bar
The benefits of throwing yourself in at the deep end
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6 min readApr 30, 2024
Warsaw, Poland, 2000
I’m sitting in my flat in Ulica Białobrzeska in the western district of Ochota. It’s a thirty-storey Soviet tower block and I’m on the 22nd floor. I share it with another English teacher called James, but I…