Adventures with a Spanish Tutor

Having recently been invited and just one day under two months left before we depart our lovely Australia, Will and I have started crunching in the hours in Spanish. I want Will to get into the highest Spanish group that he can during traning--so does he--so I have started tutoring him twice a week in Spanish.

It pays to have a partner who is a native speaker of the very language you need to learn and not have to pay a single dime because they are more than willing to work with you--that's me. I've been tutoring English and Spanish for some time now and kind of have the drill down. I think we had a good day. We started out with a short article about the most famous archbishop in El Salvador who was assasinated during El Salvador's civil war and then briefly discussed a few of the key points. The session started out quite seriously because we've never actually had a formal tutoring session together, but by the time we got to the end and were using imperfect and preterate verb forms to talk about why Thanksgiving is his favourite holiday and what exactly he was doing when it struck 12 this pas new year, we were having good time.

When I started uni I knew almost nothing about Spanish grammar but after having helped Will with an assignment here and there and taking Spanish classes with near beginners and intermediate students because I had no other choice, I've learnt heaps.

Huh. I actually quite like grammar.