Spanglish

Sunny Guanajuato, Mexico. Nice! We had a great trip on what will hopefully be our last solo outing for a while. It was great fun to be in school again, this time learning Spanish. Boy some of those brain muscles have atrophied over 15+ years since college. Here I sit on the steps of the big University in Guanajuato thinking that I need to study. Some things never change. It's not like I didn't want to study. I just was distracted so very easily, just like when I was last in school. Oh cool - look at that guy selling doughnuts! Yum, I wonder how he makes those. How would I ask him that in Spanish? Hmm, Adonde hecho... no, wait  I never learned past tense. Ok, forget that. 

We did learn/remember a lot by the end of the week but it made me realize what a drop in the bucket it is. There are over 100,000 words in the Spanish language. I read that most people have a speaking vocabulary of around 20,000 words. 20,000?! They also say you can communicate reasonably well with about 1,000. Ok, that sounds more like it. However if I'm going to try to raise our kid bilingual I'd better get busy.