{"id":2653,"date":"2015-06-22T23:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T23:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2653"},"modified":"2015-06-22T23:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T23:50:46","slug":"108-learn-spanish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/121-life-goals\/108-learn-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"108. Learn Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Completed June 30, 2009 @ Calgary, AB<\/p>\n<p>It is really difficult to say once and for all that I have \u201clearned Spanish.\u201d I still learn new words and phrases all the time, so I haven\u2019t mastered the language, but I can certainly get by.<\/p>\n<p>My first training in the language was in 2004-5 through classes put on by the Edmonton Hispanic Bilingual Association.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shapeimage_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2655 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/shapeimage_2.png\" alt=\"shapeimage_2\" width=\"267\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a>I jumped into level 3 believing my knowledge of French would carry me somewhat and I didn\u2019t want to spend weeks on colours and days of the week. I had three great teachers in levels 3, 4 and 5; they were from Chile, Colombia, and M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n<p>I continued to build my Spanish skills in when I moved to Guatemala for three years in the fall of 2005. I felt pretty comfortable with the language and a guy in a hardware store even asked me if I was from Spain because he couldn\u2019t place my accent.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, I moved to Calgary and began teaching again. As part of my assignment I was to teach beginner spanish to 8th and 9th grade.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve read bits and pieces of things in Spanish and even started the classic and perhaps the crown of Spanish literature: Don Quijote de la Mancha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed June 30, 2009 @ Calgary, AB It is really difficult to say once and for all that I have \u201clearned Spanish.\u201d I still learn new words and phrases all the time, so I haven\u2019t mastered the language, but I can certainly get by. My first training in the language was in 2004-5 through classes &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/121-life-goals\/108-learn-spanish\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2235,"menu_order":108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-admin","post-2653"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2653\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}