Why Learn Spanish in South America?

After this I started paying great attention to the local newspapers, television and even shop signs. Although I didn’t know that many words I still found that I was interested in working out more about the world around me.
After I left the conservation job I travelled around a few countries and discovered that my slowly improving Spanish was letting me speak to the locals and learn a lot about their culture and way of life. Rather than return to the UK when I had planned to I woke up one morning and decided to rip up my plane ticket and stay on a bit longer.
During this time I decided to continue to learn Spanish and find out more about the culture and the people around me. I found that listening to music and writing out the words was a great way to pick up expressions and words which weren’t in the dictionary and also to improve my listening skills. To this day I can still amaze locals by quoting the lyrics of entire songs in Spanish.
I returned to the UK for a spell but found that I missed the people and the language in South America and ended up coming back here. To me it is a language which rolls off the tongue, has a great musical, rhyming sound to it and which can be used to express ideas and feelings which are difficult to get across in English.