I want to take up spanish and my husband wants to take up Italian, and hopefully we can just learn off each other. ha. We would LOVE to go to italy, it's one of our want to trips. My mom is puerto rican so i have grown up around spanish speaking people but not enough to pick it up, I hope when we go to costa rica i will be able to pic some up. That would be so nice! I always wanted to go to puerto rico for a month just to pic up the language, I think I could do it, i dont think it would be that hard cause I'd HAVE to learn to speak it.
You'd be surprised. I went to costa rica with 3 guys who pretty much only spoke english, and so I only spoke english with them. It would have been better if the guys I went with knew as much spanish as me, because then we could have been practicing all day everyday as we found our way around. I picked up some new stuff, but not much. It might be a good idea for both of you to focus on just one language so that you can practice together. Then, like Julie said, worry about the other language.
well, if you're intrested, i'm plannning a trip to italy for this summer. planning on renting a house or an apartment. there's a few of us going. boys house and girls house. for about 3 weeks or a month. haven't decided yet or worked out all the details cuz people are still decieding if they wanna come. lemme know if you're interested.