Do you want to learn Spanish? Or do you want to speak and understand it? We have been told that the path to speak and understand a second language is by learning it. But what if this is not the case? Have we been taken on the wrong path? What can we learn from the latest studies that will help you communicate in Spanish? Phil will relate the latest studies that shed doubt on learning Spanish and, in its place, the alternative of acquiring Spanish.

Phil Rylett spent years studying Spanish before coming to Mexico. Classes, books, courses, schools, etc. He was extremely disappointed when arriving in Ajijic to find out he could understand very little. Some of his Mexican friends, however, spoke reasonable English, without much formal instruction. This led him to investigate alternate paths to speaking and understanding Spanish.