Que lastima, no hablo Espanol
I really need to learn to speak Spanish. Seriously.
I signed up to read to kids in the waiting room at the Temple Children's Hospital. So I went today and it was somewhat intimidating. It did get easier as I went along but I was amazed by how many of them spoke Spanish. I ended up spending a good bit of my time with two little girls who were really engaged in the stories and definitely spoke English. I felt bad, though, because I wanted to get to more of the kids and there were some Spanish story books available, but I know my pronunciation is so bad. I haven't been able to speak Spanish since high school, and even then I had a hard time communicating with native speakers.
I have a dream of doing my residency in NYC or somewhere in California and there will be an even larger Hispanic population in those areas, so I don't know what I'll do then. I know that not every doctor in the big cities is bilingual but I think it would really be to my advantage, plus I want to learn other languages.
I'm afraid it's too late for me to learn. I really feel that I would have to spend some time in a Spanish-speaking country to be successful and I don't know how or when I'd have the time. I'm taking a medical Spanish class at school but it is completely useless. It's taught by other students who already speak the language, but they don't know how to teach it to us very well. What else can I do?
Ok, back to studying...
I signed up to read to kids in the waiting room at the Temple Children's Hospital. So I went today and it was somewhat intimidating. It did get easier as I went along but I was amazed by how many of them spoke Spanish. I ended up spending a good bit of my time with two little girls who were really engaged in the stories and definitely spoke English. I felt bad, though, because I wanted to get to more of the kids and there were some Spanish story books available, but I know my pronunciation is so bad. I haven't been able to speak Spanish since high school, and even then I had a hard time communicating with native speakers.
I have a dream of doing my residency in NYC or somewhere in California and there will be an even larger Hispanic population in those areas, so I don't know what I'll do then. I know that not every doctor in the big cities is bilingual but I think it would really be to my advantage, plus I want to learn other languages.
I'm afraid it's too late for me to learn. I really feel that I would have to spend some time in a Spanish-speaking country to be successful and I don't know how or when I'd have the time. I'm taking a medical Spanish class at school but it is completely useless. It's taught by other students who already speak the language, but they don't know how to teach it to us very well. What else can I do?
Ok, back to studying...