Before travelling to Milan last Friday I started my Spanish lessons in Utrecht (as you do). Some very basic stuff you understand, but it meant that on the Tuesday morning of my last week at work I managed to order my taxi in Madrid in Spanish for the first time. A small step but definitely one in the right direction! I was proud as punch all day until I told the story to one of my local colleagues. He didn’t know how to put it, but he was very kind as he explained to me that I had effectively proclaimed to my somewhat surprised Spanish taxi driver (who spoke perfect English) that I “live” (vivir and yo vivo) in the office, rather than I wanted to go (ir and yo voy) to the office… Back to the drawing board it seems…
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