Dos cervezas por favor, learning Spanish / español help and chat

Someone recommended this to me but I have not had time to take a proper look at it:

https://www.languagetransfer.org/

Had a quick look at languagetranser.org. It's very similar/identical to Michael Thomas / Paul Noble.

I didn't get on with Michael Thomas, but loved Paul Noble. All three (PN, MT and Languagetransfer) are worth exploring - to find the ones you get on with the best. Will explore LT more.

A good thread - will follow. Am presently in Spain, trying to learn Spanish.

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Is that a whole course on BBC or is it some kind of exam revision?

This was the podcast I mentioned:
https://radiolingua.com/coffeebreakspanish/

Rad. Thanks for the links.

Partner is Spanish, so converse with her, but writing and complex conversation gets a bit tiring for her as I'm always asking questions.
Links are super helpful.
Need to get much better as I'd like to move out there again.

@snottyotter - the Spanish language pack for the phone is a good shout. Duolingo is hit and miss with spelling mistakes

Learn your numbers and currency.
Learn to buy food in a market.
Learn to haggle and walk away.
Learn how to buy travel tickets.
Learn distance direction signs.
Learn the time.
Learn its the people not the place.
Learn singular plural male and female.

My spelling is a bit shit in English, I know when something is wrong though so autocorrect helps, same seems to work in Spanish. Need to work on my numbers, been counting my reps when getting ripped, but only getting up to quince isn't helping too much with counting or getting ripped.

That BBC thing seems like an exam revision. It was just too clarify the 'desde hace'. But there're possibly thousands of rules and exceptions like that one.. not to discourage anyone from learning though. I believe it's just more practical to understand the spoken language and then learn to say some basic stuff.
Did you find many locals that spoke english during Badlands?

Dieciséis, bro

Did you find many locals that spoke english during Badlands?

When I did Transiberica, I literally only knew "dos cervezas por favor", I think I learn "xirri mirri" and "bon dia" while at the start in Bilbao and then most of the race I was using Conversation Mode in Google Translate and probably picked up stuff like "agua", "comida" and some numbers along the way.

Badlands I'd been doing Duolingo for 12 months so I could do things like "Quiero tres botella de agua por favor, ooh mucho frio por favor! Tu tienes comida?" but the only thing I could remember how to order was "jamon y queso bocadillo" so that was all I ate.

Maybe in the start/finish of Granada there was more english speakers (not in our hotel though) like restaurants but then my missus was there and she'd already got better at Spanish in half the time just with Duolingo. So, I don't remember any English speaking going on - oh almost certainly some in the hotels I used later on.

Si! Colonche es súper rica. También me gustan los higos chumbos.

Food thread >>>

Yes, ? super ?. Also I like (gusta? gustan?) the pricky pears*

*i googled higos chumbos

As you can see. Not I'm much chop with this.

As you can see. Not I'm much chop with this.

Googling is learning, you understand bits and fill in the rest. Hopefully a bit of chat in here will make up for some of the stuff that people would normally pick up on in actual conversations, little phrases or whatever.

#hippyesgordo

For obvious reasons I already know "gordo".

#hippyesmasfuerte

I still don't know what Colonche is though.

Fuck, it's booze?! I'm in!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonche

llueve mucho en londres?

Nunca nieva en esta ciudad is annoying because snow sounds like "never"

Nunca hay nieve nueva después de las nueve.

Después de las nueve, nunca neva nieve nueva.

She sells seashells by... banned

Magnífico ^^.

No tan magnífico ^^.