Perfecting Castillano

Hola,

Today I would like to share my endeavours in perfecting my castillano (Spanish, as known in the Iberian peninsula). There is a saying that the last mile is often the toughest in a race. It is the case with my Spanish. Some facts : I've been living in Spain for 3 years. I have taken 1 year individual spanish course. I manage my daily life outside work with spanish. (yeah.. that means the grocery, the doctor of the kids, the school teachers, the odd rough guy conversation, the taxi driver, the maid, etc.) But, still, my spanish is not where I want it to be. I mean, I want to be really fluent, and thus be more confident in using it for business.

With this aim, I've just embarked on a Spanish2.0 mission. I surveyed several web sites that can help. The one I liked a lot is http://www.studyspanish.com There is also another one, called www.spanish.about.com which is heavily advertisement mixed. One nice feature though is a newsletter that you can subscribe which will bring to your inbox, a mail a day with a new word, or a new phrase.

It's been few days now, and I am revising the basis of verb conjugations, which for me is a hard nut to crack. I'm getting better, and hope to post in spanish in a few days time.