Posted: Fri Aug 6, 2021 7:08pm
I wondered this too? I just bought my house in Aguilas last month. I already have basic Spanish and can get by with simple day to day encounters, but it will keep on improving because the beauty of Aguilas is that it's pretty much 100% native Spaniards and VERY few of them have any English at all. It's the best way to learn, and one of the many reasons I moved here. You have no choice BUT to learn, because you can't fall back on the English crutch a lot of the time.
Oh, and don't worry about the Irish accent, I myself am a Dub. Haha! The key is to learn the sounds of the alphabet first. Correct pronunciation is very important, because they simply will not understand you in a lot of cases if the pronunciation is off. Personally, I think finding a language swap for conversational learning is the best way to go. Trying to learn a language from a technical/grammatical base is a waste of time, I find. Nobody speaks - day to day - using the sorts of phrases you find in grammar guides. It would be like learning Edwardian English. Haha!