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I think the problem was always confidence, I always believed that I sounded like an idiot.


That's the key, you've got to forget all that self consciousness. we used to have loads of Spanish clients, one day I upset one, couldn't work out why so I started learning Spanish, just off phrase books and stuff but making sure that I spoke as much Spanish as I could to anyone I could. Yeah I made a tit of myself more than once but my conversational Spanish gets me underestood whenever I need to.

I'd also add that I was already bilingual; Punjabi/English, makes it a lot easier IMO to pick up another language later, I'd recommend anyone with kids to start them on a foreign language as young as possible.