Speaking Their Language

These classes are teaching Spanish to English speaking people who want to communicate with their neighbors, with their clients, with their co-workers, with some family members. They know how important it is to be bilingual. - - Donna Poisl

Grad students take Spanish lessons to Roxbury

By Jeremy Schwab

Leslie McConnell is long past the age when the mind is a blank slate for language learning. She took her last forgettable Spanish class in college and since then has made only minor attempts to keep up with the language.

But on a recent night, she dreamed of conjugating verbs in Spanish. “For once,” she says, “I can honestly say that I’m acquiring a language. Always in the past, I was just learning it by rote.”
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