I'm an estadounidense myself, staring 50 in the eyes. I've been trying to free up some time to meet folks on the forum, but my one attempt failed on my end
I live out in Pilar and am a homebody for the most part, so I have to get up the ganas to come in to town - the more notice the better sometimes.
Y'all come up with a date and place to get together and have a chat and I'll try to be there.
I found BAJoe's post interesting about the Wednesday Spanish for Expats social thing at Club Europa, for some time down the road. My wife is Paraguayan and speaks practically no English (although she is starting to learn and understands about 20% of what she hears). Unfortunately, not many of my expat friends speak good enough Spanish to hold a conversation, so we end up splitting up sometimes between the Spanish speakers and the English speakers at get-togethers.
It would be interesting for her to sit down and talk to some expats in Spanish, and I could probably get her to join an English speaking social event for Spanish speakers once she sees what the place is like.
Plus, I bet I could talk some of my expat friends in to coming down as well and finally learn some conversational Spanish, not "just enough to get by."
Do me some good too. I could hone my skills and learn better phrasing. Just don't want anyone making fun of my accent - I don't think I'll ever be able to talk like an Argentine I learned Mexican Spanish more than 25 years ago in High School and working construction side-by-side with Mexicans. Funny thing is, I do pronounce some words like an Argentine, but they are words I learned here. But trying to change completely would feel to me like me going to the UK and trying to talk with a regional UK accent.
I live out in Pilar and am a homebody for the most part, so I have to get up the ganas to come in to town - the more notice the better sometimes.
Y'all come up with a date and place to get together and have a chat and I'll try to be there.
I found BAJoe's post interesting about the Wednesday Spanish for Expats social thing at Club Europa, for some time down the road. My wife is Paraguayan and speaks practically no English (although she is starting to learn and understands about 20% of what she hears). Unfortunately, not many of my expat friends speak good enough Spanish to hold a conversation, so we end up splitting up sometimes between the Spanish speakers and the English speakers at get-togethers.
It would be interesting for her to sit down and talk to some expats in Spanish, and I could probably get her to join an English speaking social event for Spanish speakers once she sees what the place is like.
Plus, I bet I could talk some of my expat friends in to coming down as well and finally learn some conversational Spanish, not "just enough to get by."
Do me some good too. I could hone my skills and learn better phrasing. Just don't want anyone making fun of my accent - I don't think I'll ever be able to talk like an Argentine I learned Mexican Spanish more than 25 years ago in High School and working construction side-by-side with Mexicans. Funny thing is, I do pronounce some words like an Argentine, but they are words I learned here. But trying to change completely would feel to me like me going to the UK and trying to talk with a regional UK accent.