Have you ever thought that your Spanish becomes miraculously more fluent when you’ve had a couple of glasses of wine?
When we started FunTalk we wanted to challenge the traditional Textbook-Homework-Test model, which is the way most of us have learned a language, and make it fun. Real-life conversations take place over a drink, so we thought, “Why not bring that into the classroom?”
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We thought the wine with the Spanish was a great idea, remembering when we had first come to Spain and had begun to learn Spanish but we had had a lot of difficulty communicating, but then on a night out, and over a few drinks, suddenly debating, arguing and rolling our rrrrrrrrs like the natives! We believe that the combination of the wine and the relaxed atmosphere makes you feel less self-conscious about speaking the language.
We wanted our students to have the same frame of mind in the FunTalk classroom for our Spanish conversation class. Wine is a good starting point, we associate it with relaxation and even the simple act of uncorking the bottle puts both teacher and students in a more relaxed mood for learning. What a contrast to starting a class with “Get out your textbooks!
Drinking also helps. Research shows that a small amount of alcohol can help you speak a foreign language better. Although I had already experienced it first hand, I was quite surprised to see the research back it up. Read the article here:
Alcohol can help you speak a foreign language more fluently.
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However, for morning Spanish conversation classes, we thought that pouring glasses of rioja might be too much. Instead, we thought that conversation over coffee would provide some of that relaxed, informal atmosphere that facilitates conversation in the classroom. Coffee and conversation go together. And after all, we don’t need alcohol to have a good time, do we?
“Any carajillo?”
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