Hola chic@s,

Espero que estén bien.

Let me take you back to the dance floor in a Chilean nightclub many moons ago 🇨🇱

I was with my good friend Stu, a fellow Brit with hips just as stiff as mine.

What was supposed to be a fun night out quickly became a night of embarrassment for both of us.

After a few too many piscolas (pisco and coke - a classic in Chile) I needed the baño.

I located the door with the letter ‘M’ on it and walked through.

Shrieks 😱

‘M’ didn’t stand for ‘Men’ in this part of the world.

It stood for ‘Mujeres’.

Which means ‘Women’.


No bueno.


I quickly found Stu and relived the moment of embarrassment with him.

He’s always been a ‘so what’ kind of guy and he handed me another drink as we made our way into the centre of the dance floor.

Awkwardly moving his body to try and cheer me up, Stu was suddenly approached by an incredibly attractive Chilean woman 💃

We both looked at each other excitedly.

She smiled.

Leaned in.

And said…

“¿Es tu primera vez bailando?”
“Is this your first time dancing?”

And walked off.

Brutal.

We were stunned and at a loss for words.

It’s true.

Stu is not the world’s best dancer and still isn’t.

But that comment wasn’t going to stop him.

Six months later, he had moved to Barcelona, when an equally attractive Catalan woman approached him in a nightclub.

She turned out to be his future wife.

She fell in love with the very thing someone else had laughed at.

And still loves him for his authenticity.

They’re now happily married with three children.


Stu didn’t dance because he wanted validation.

He danced because he wanted to dance.


Learning Spanish is exactly the same.

If you’re waiting until you sound perfect before speaking, you’ll be waiting forever.

Every foreigner who has lived Spanish, rather than just learned it was once the person standing awkwardly on the edge of the dance floor.

The only difference is they walked onto it.


The world doesn’t reward people who avoid looking silly.

It rewards people who are authentic and keep showing up anyway.

That same terrible dancer eventually met his beautiful Spanish wife because he kept putting himself in rooms where something could happen.

Imagine if he’d taken that insult personally?

Stu embodies the essence of Chat Spanish perfectly.

Spanish is less about avoiding embarrassment and more about collecting memorable stories.


Ready for your turn?

Tonight you’re walking into a Spanish nightclub 🕺

Let’s see if you survive…

➡️ Start the nightclub mission ⬅


Disfruta.

Un abrazo,
Harrison

Spanish for living, not just learning


P.S - If you’re not using the Chat Spanish Verb Lab 🧪 you’re missing out. It’s a place where you can practice conjugating the 100 most popular Spanish verbs. Go crazy.