Your fairy godmother is back in town! In Spanish she’s your Hada Madrina. This week she’ll grant you the wish to speak the language of your choice immediately, no vocabulary drills or 1001 Verbs to prepare. She waves her wand and it goes online!
If you could speak any language fluently overnight, what would it be?
Rebecca: I’d choose Mandarin Chinese, because 900 million potential conversation partners sounds great to me. Mandarin is the second most commonly spoken language in the world after English. ¡Gracias, Hada Madrina! Xiè xie!
Tell us the story behind your choice as well! Leave a note below : )
Gracias for reading Fake Flamenco! ¡Olé!
¡Gracias a la familia Linares Gil, por la Hada Madrina de la foto!
Fake Flamenco 
Gaelic 😊
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Interesting! Is it an ancestral language?
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I can learn Spanish. But if I were to wake up one morning with a language it would be Gaelic because it’s difficult to learn. At least it has been for me. My grandfather was Irish but an ancestral language would actually be Romansh or German. My grandmother spoke fluently but I don’t know which language it was. We just called it Swiss.
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Welsh would be a cool language too, one side of my family is very Welsh. Cool, many languages in your ancestry.
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Ah welsh would be so cool!! 😎
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I’d definitely choose Spanish since I’ve chosen to make Colombia my home. What’s been most surprising to me is the level of difficulty I’m having with language acquisition at the moment. There aren’t any Spanish language schools in the town where I live, and although I’ve made a concerted effort to find a private teacher, there have been no takers up to this point.
Being trained as a language teacher myself, I foolishly thought I’d be able to learn on my own with the aid of some online resources. However, the crucial element of face to face interaction is missing and for me that’s the key. I think a combination of classroom guidance and practical experience within the given culture on a daily basis is the best combination for acquisition. Learning a new language takes motivation, dedication and perseverance. I’m not giving up, though, so wish me luck!
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Buena suerte, Henry! Antonio, our favorite language teacher in Santiago, Chile could be a good person for you to visit for a few weeks. I think you two would get along famously. As a teacher he’s funny and rigorous at the same time. -Rebecca
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I’m torn between Swiss German and Hungarian, although my grandchildren also speak English perfectly well so I don’t really need either unless I go visit them in Zurich. Actually if “speak” includes reading, I might go for Middle English and read lots of cool medieval stuff in the original.
Great question, Rebecca!
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Thanks, Sarah! I think Hungarian would be fascinating since we have close family friends that speak it. I like your take on a reading language too. Cool idea! R.
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Maybe Arabic is the non-Romance language that I would magically add, though for just plain fun – Brazilian Portuguese.
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Yes, both languages have such rich musical traditions! Listening to David Byrne’s Brazilian music collection Beleza Tropical helped me learn Portuguese the summer I took the intensive class. -Rebecca
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