{"id":492,"date":"2012-09-20T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2013-08-19T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:58:59","slug":"how-to-learn-spanish-with-a-smile-on-your-face-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/how-to-learn-spanish-with-a-smile-on-your-face-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Learn Spanish with a Smile on Your Face (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been much of a joke teller, to be honest. I tend to either forget the punch line or get all muddled and end up mix two jokes together into one at the crucial time. However, I discovered pretty quickly that learning a few jokes is a great way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a> with a smile on your face if you can work out how to do it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1 \u2013 Know the Words<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was taken by surprise the first time someone asked me to tell them a joke in Spanish. It wasn\u2019t long after my initial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">Spanish lessons<\/a> had finished and I didn\u2019t have enough vocabulary to do this properly at all. Needless to say I ploughed on regardless and tried to tell a really complicated joke which took me about 10 minutes and lots of lengthy pauses to deliver. At the end I was red faced and completely out of breath. As I looked around my audience to gauge their reactions I just saw a sea of blank faces staring back at me. It\u2019s hard work this comedy business.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.123rf.com\/400wm\/400\/400\/justmeyo\/justmeyo1012\/justmeyo101200149\/8407913-mujeres-empresarias-de-divertirse-riendo-a-carcajadas-y-apuntando-a-los-hombres-se-quedan-dormidos-e.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been much of a joke teller, to be honest. I tend to either forget the punch line or get all muddled and end up mix two jokes together into one at the crucial time. 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