Hi ;
It�s me again!!!
Here is another one. Since Thom won�t have his NIE in sometime, who knows how much, we think it would be a good time to learn Spanish, he tried an academy called Formula Si, and it seems a little expensive for us right now, (i know i should be his teacher), so if anyone knows a place where he can go to learn Spanish it would be great.
Never knew it was so hard getting around in Spain and i am Spanish!!!

I just finished 2 months at an intensive school in the puerta del sol called inHispania. I thought the program was really good. But ultimately I have found that the best way to learn is to get out there and start speaking even if it is really embarrassing. All the grammar stuff can be found in a book or two...but listening comprehension and spaking efficiency are the most important assets to learning a language. They have website with rates here: www.inhispania.com

Hi Ruth: I agree with Ezra - the best way is to get out and make mistakes and learn from them. I think your hubby could take classes from just about any school and learn the basics without having to pay an arm and a leg. As he progressed, it might make sense to spend more money on the better schools but for basic beginners spanish, I cannot imagine there will be much difference between expense and inexpensive schools.

I moved to Spain with next to zero Spanish knowledge and used one books (500 Spanish Verbs - but i strongly suggest he also use "Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions") and went to a smoke load of bars, insulted a few people "sin quierer" and became conversationaly fluent, not without my share of grammatical errors. If he takes classes, he should be able to clean up any grammar problems - or avoid them all together.

The tough part will be to find non-english speakers that are willing to put up with his Spanish while it improves. I was lucky because I went over when I was 18 and finding young spaniards interested in drinking beer and putting up with bad spanish was easy.. However, there are a number of people in Spain that want to spend time with english speakers as a way to improve their english - he could swap days with them, one day english and another spanish. I think it is called "exchange" or "interchange" or something similiar. You can find it posted on Jer's multimadrid websight.

Good luck