{"id":1809,"date":"2013-05-19T22:37:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2013-05-19T22:37:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T22:37:47","slug":"chewing-the-fat-with-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/19\/chewing-the-fat-with-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Chewing the Fat with the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Family<\/a>Alice and Damian had been in a relationship for a few years now and, like any couple, spent a fair amount of time with each other\u00b4s relatives for family meals, celebrations or casual visits. For Alice though, this wasn\u00b4t always an easy affair as Damian\u00b4s family was Spanish on his mum\u00b4s side. Having taken a year of basic Spanish in school, Alice had been able to make initial gestures towards conversations when she\u00b4d first met his family, but her vocabulary was somewhat limited to say the least. When their relationship had become more serious, Alice had travelled to Barcelona to take a brief but intensive Spanish course to try to build up her knowledge of the language and boost her confidence when speaking it. Now though, as time had passed and with little practice, Alice found that she had difficulty in recalling words and phrases, and was finding it harder to be included in conversations at family get-togethers.<\/p>\n

So, she thought she\u00b4d better make an effort and take more of an active role with Damian\u00b4s family by looking for some refresher courses. Having made some enquires, Alice signed up for some recommended one-to-one Spanish classes in Bristol<\/b><\/a> and looked forward to being taught by her native Spanish teacher. As she lived so close to the language centre, Alice was lucky enough to benefit from the teacher being able to visit her at home for the classes which was extremely convenient. The lessons were geared to be a continuation from Alice\u00b4s current level of Spanish and were more personal in their content, with much of the subject matter being focused on Damian\u00b4s family and on conversations that would be more likely to take place.<\/p>\n

As her Spanish vocabulary broadened and she found it easier to get her tongue around certain phrases, Alice\u00b4s confidence increased again and she felt sure that she\u00b4d be able to hold her own during some of the family conversations. Now she could look forward to the next mealtime when she could sit and have a chat with Damian\u00b4s mum without having to use him as a translator!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice and Damian had been in a relationship for a few years now and, like any couple, spent a fair amount of time with each other\u00b4s relatives for family meals, celebrations or casual visits. For Alice though, this wasn\u00b4t always an easy affair as Damian\u00b4s family was Spanish on his mum\u00b4s side. Having taken a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1046,200],"tags":[51,327,330],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spanish","category-speech-2","category-translation","tag-language","tag-spanish","tag-speaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}