While doing some research on Alicante we came across this website called “Cafe Idiomas” which translates in english to Cafe Language.  Once a week they have an event where anyone can attend and have a coffee with someone with a different language and practice a second language. It sounds like an interesting spot so today we decided to head down to the cafe idiomas and try our spanish on some poor people.

We arrived at about 6 pm at the Cafe Idiomas, which turned out to be a small cafe located in the local school for languages called “Proyecto Espanol”. The school teaches Spanish, English and German to locals and foreigners. They host this free 2 hour language exchange at the cafe once a week. We signed up at the cafe and they were very happy to have us take part. There are not too many people who speak english and we were the only ones there tonight.

We were introduced to two spanish gentleman in their late twenties  or early thirties. We discussed any number of  subjects that arose  for about an hour in english.  During the second hour we talked spanish but still used some english when we couldn’t find the word in spanish. We definitely spoke more english than spanish overall, but our spanish is improving. It was an enjoyable evening and we will be  making this part of our routine every week.

“Adios y que tenga un grand dios”