{"id":500,"date":"2012-10-02T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2013-08-19T16:08:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:08:09","slug":"is-a-foreign-language-on-your-horizon-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/is-a-foreign-language-on-your-horizon-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a Foreign Language on Your Horizon? (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You Meet a Native Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first time I spoke to a native Spanish speaker in Spanish was a terrifying experience. I just felt so silly saying words which didn\u2019t mean anything to me. Now I knew how the guy in the Mr Blobby suit must feel as he spits out gibberish all day long. Anyway, I guess that you might be in the opposite type of situation. What I mean is that you might meet someone and then realise that you can\u2019t communicate in their language.  I have a friend who looked at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/french\/ \">French courses Nottingham<\/a> teachers could offer him because he was smitten with a Gallic lady he had met on holiday. It must be amazing to be able to speak to each other a bit more each day. Unless you discover that the other person is really boring, of course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You Get a Job Offer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> I once dreamed of getting a work transfer from Scotland to Wales for some reason. It wasn\u2019t due to the charms of the Welsh language; I simply fancied a move somewhere else. Can you imagine your boss offering you the job you have always wanted and then telling you that you would need to move from London to Berlin, for example? Would you say no thanks or would you check out the ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/german\/\">learn German London<\/a> students can use? 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