Introduction

Welcome to Hola, soy…

The learning of a second language not always appear to have a spot among our priorities, not because we are too lazy to learn one (sometimes it is for some people) but because having English as mother tongue it seems like we can communicate anywhere that everybody is going to understand us. Well, that is a big truth: English is spoken in each country of the world, eather as first language or as second (official or not). It has become the universal language, the new Latin of the modern world; people from different countries now can communicate without the need of a translator.
So, why anybody that has English as mother tongue would want to learn another system, another way of communicating? Well, there are several reasons that I consider worth mentioning.

• A new language unravels the lock to a new culture, to another perspective and another way of seeing life
• Everybody in the world that has English as second language has (of course) a first, so at least that person would be able to communicate in two different ways. Don’t you want to do the same? If they can manage two systems, so do you.
• Learning languages helps to prevent degenerative diseases like Alzheimer.
• From a more linguistic perspective, if we consider that in the world there are around 6000 languages (many of them spoken just for one person) is kind of a shame to have this richness and not take advantage of it.
• And specific Spanish because it is the second most spoken native language in the world, spoken in Spain, Latin America, United States, the Caribbean, Equatorial Guinea and the Philipines.

What I’m offering you then is a compromise to learn a new secret, a new code, an access to one of the most extended languages in the world, Spanish. I’m going to try (as a native speaker) to teach you the better I can, so you can in several weeks be able to say ¡Hablo español! (I speak Spanish!). Let’s begin!