Intermediate 1

Spanish Obsessed intermediate, number 1

Hi Lis

Hi Rob

What’s up, how are you?

Good, everything’s fine, still going, how are you?

Very good too and hi everyone in our first intermediate level podcast, in this podcast we wanted to introduce ourselves, so that you get to know us a little, who we are, how we go and what we do and all of that, ok starting with you Lis, tell us where you are from

Well, hello everyone again, I was born in Bogotá, which is the capital of Colombia, and well I studied in university, I did my degree in Law and afterwards I started an internship in Congress and that’s where I worked almost two years, and that’s all, all of my work history in Colombia and after that I wanted to start to speak another language, so well English had to be the first, that’s why I decided to save some money and travel here to England, because my sister was already here, so I decided to travel to London, because my sister was already here and well I always had the curiosity to come to know London

Very good and just as well you came

Yes and anyway, and I started and arrived almost more than two years ago, I started studying English, the first 6 months were very cool as a tourist, getting to know, and then when the money ran out, things got a bit complicated, but well, I continued, I continued with my studies and today, I am doing a master's degree in comparative commercial law and transnational justice, so I am very happy, with this project and that's basically what I have done and Rob, tell us what you do and where you come from?

Well, I’m going to start with the second question, where I come from, I’m not Colombian, nor Spanish, I’m from England, from London the capital and I learnt all my Spanish, well the majority of my Spanish in Spain, in a city which is called Valencia, where I went to work as a teacher, but also after two years in Spain I decided to go around the world to see how everything is and as I already knew Spanish, I thought that it was a good idea to travel around South America, so I went to Ecuador and worked with an environment development project there

Wow

Interesting, in the Amazon

In the Amazon

In the Amazon, that was during a few months and after that I travelled around Colombia, your beloved land, I got to know many sites including, including Bogotá, and I loved it

And what was your favourite place?

I don’t know, I loved Bogotá, it was very interesting there, but I also liked the sun of the cost, the cities of the north, such as Cartagena, Santa Marta, also Medellín, and after that I returned here to England and now I’m working with a marketing company, and very happy

Happy

Very happy, yes, here with my Lisesita

With the project of Spanish Obsessed

Well yes, and what else, what do you like to do in your free time?

The truth is I don’t have much free time

Yes it’s true

It’s a hurry here, but anyway the weekends I take advantage of to go out running a little, or to go out with my sister, spend time with here over a beer and talk about life, I think that’s my favourite plan

Yes, to talk about life

Yes, that has been my favourite plan even in Colombia, with my older sister, that on Sundays we always got together, at home after lunch or in the afternoon, we put music on, some wines, talking and talking, very nice

Yes, you like to talk, it’s true

Yes, and what else

Yes, and anyway I started up and arrived almost two years ago, I started studying English, the first six months very cool like a tourist, getting to know, and afterwards when the money started running out, things started to complicate a little, but anyway, I carried on with my studies and today, I’m doing a Masters in Comparative Commercial Law and Transnational Justice, so I’m very happy, with this project, basically that’s what I’ve done, and Rob tell us what you do and where you come from?

Yes, I like to jog too

To jog, sorry

To jog, Sundays I like to jog a little, I also love to dance

Ah yes, in fact, Lis is teaching me, or trying to teach me to dance salsa

To dance salsa

But it’s very difficult, I don’t know I have two left feet, I have very bad co-ordination, nothing comes out right

Because you don’t practise, but anyway, yes, I like dancing very much

Yes, and singing too

Yes, I also love that. And you Rob, tell us about what you do in your free time

Well I also don’t have much unfortunately, but I dedicate myself to music, I love music, that’s to say, I play the piano and I like to play the piano very much, I do it when I can, although I don’t have a piano here in London, every time it’s possible I got to play the piano and the guitar as well

Yes

What else, well I did sports, I don’t so much now, although I’m going to sign up to a gym soon

Me too

Lis also, yes, a new year’s resolution, when was it? I don’t know, and sometimes I play football, like everyone

Tell us about your short addictions

Yes I have like a few periods of addiction to things like, not stupid, but interesting, but not very useful let’s say

Yes like at the moment…

At the moment, like for example, just before Christmas, I was crazy about chess

You were trapped in chess

I loved it, I was watching videos on YouTube about chess, watching chess competitions, reading about chess, playing a lot on my phone and also with you, and with whomever wanted to play

And I always wanted to win

Yes, and well I won, I won the majority of times, and how long did that last in the end?

Like 3 or 4 months, I also like it, I also like chess a lot but I do it to rest my mind and relax because the concentration goes on chess

But it’s very good

And it changes your mind but, not so much

I still love it but that time is gone, I've had my magic period too.

Of magic

Of magic sorry, that I learned a lot of card tricks and coins too, but that was years ago

Years ago

And I still know how to do those tricks and it’s served me very well

Ah yes, well here you have me bewitched

Very well, well we are Rob and Lis of Spanish Obsessed, we hope that now you know us a little better, who we are, what we do, and all of that

Ah well, and another of our interests

Ok

They are, yes I’d forgotten, they are those of language, languages

Ah yes

And above all Rob, I’ve been getting involved in the topic because I’m studying English and all of this story, but he is quite restless with the topic of different languages and the accents and phonetics and grammar, so something that I know we have in common with you the listeners, is that interest in discovering other languages

That’s it yes, I’ve learned Spanish, Russian, although now I don’t remember anything and I’m trying to learn French

So as you’ll see, we’re also learners and we wanted to share this interest with you as well

Yes, so we’re going to do a podcast every week, that’s the idea and we hope to see you soon

Definitely, and we await all of your comments, what you hope from us, what you like, what you don’t like, and that’s it, many thanks

Goodbye