At the end of last year, I shared a special dinner with my Honduran friends 🇭🇳
(The Hondurans call themselves ‘catrachos’ by the way).
The apps.
The textbooks.
The badges and streaks.
All fine, but none of them produced this moment.
It all started with a conversation in my rusty Spanish with my Honduran friend Daniel, about 6 years ago.
He’s invited me over to his a fair few times since then to share some Honduran food.
All it took was the courage to extend an olive branch and mumble some broken Spanish.
And the result?
A friendship that will last a lifetime.
This is the kind of community spirit I want to foster with Chat Spanish.
Not performance, not streaks — but real connection.
A place where we practise the courage to speak, make mistakes, and still
form friendships.
If you’re reading this, I’d love to hear from you:
What experiences has learning Spanish given you?
What experiences do you hope to have?
Un abrazo,
Harrison
P.S - Make sure you’re using the Verb Lab 🧪 It took me bloody ages to build and I think you’ll find it helpful. Practice conjugating the 100 most common Spanish verbs. You’ll probably fail a lot, which is the whole point remember 😉 I deliberately don’t use dopamine hits to lull you into a false sense of progress. It’s genuinely hard, but keep going and you’ll develop the courage to put yourself out there and have experiences that will genuinely change your life forever 🙏
