You can already order food in Spanish. Now what?

Maybe you bought things at a shop. And maybe you even took a guided tour in Spanish. I think that’s all great and highly recommended.

But once you can do it, a question shows up: what’s next?

Here are some ideas for what comes after you can order tapas or a drink in Spain or Latin America:

• You can take a class in something you enjoy, taught in Spanish: sports, dance, any hobby
• You can join a book club for native speakers
• You can go on a date with a Spanish speaker
• You can find a language exchange partner and meet weekly to talk about something you’re both interested in
• You can apply for a job in Spanish
• You can offer a service you already provide in your native language, this time in Spanish
• You can practice asking your in-laws or extended family questions in Spanish

Some of these won’t be your very next step, and that’s fine. It depends on you and how much you’re willing to stretch.

Once you’re solid on the basics of ordering food and drinks, there’s a next step waiting. You don’t have to take it.

Maybe ordering food and drinks is all you need. That’s enough to get by in a Spanish speaking country. Add reservations to that list, and you can lean on Google Translate or English for the rest. Nothing wrong with that.

But if you want something more authentic, something closer to a real connection, it takes intention. That takes choosing to stretch and being proactive in the conversations you invite.

And if reading is your way of stretching, that’s exactly what the Spanish Novels bundle packs are built for. Stories set in real places, written at a level where you’ll understand more than you expect, in the dialect you actually want to practice.

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