Episode 356: TMBA356: How Long Does it Take to Learn a Foreign Language?
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/languagelearning/ http://www.tropicalmba.com/languagelearning/ Podcast 35:24 | Download | Stitcher | iTunes | Comment Hola! Like many of us, Dan and Ian spend a lot of time in foreign countries. As regular listeners know, Dan has recently moved to Barcelona and he’s starting to get more than a little embarrassed by his limited range lack of Spanish. But he...
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, scozy. |
| 0:01.0 | Babida boopee. |
| 0:02.0 | What are you doing? |
| 0:04.0 | Speaking Italian. |
| 0:05.2 | Babba de boopy. |
| 0:06.3 | Peter, you can't speak Italian just because you have a mustache. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:15.4 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:20.0 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, |
| 0:26.3 | location independent businesses. If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download |
| 0:31.0 | our entire back catalog, check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:43.4 | Pull up, hotcast listener. |
| 0:48.9 | On today's episode, I'd like to share with you one of my issues and it's language learning. |
| 0:49.9 | So like many of us, I spend a lot of time in foreign countries, and I'm ashamed to admit that |
| 0:55.1 | aside from a few jokes and the names of my favorite dishes and restaurants, I really haven't |
| 1:01.3 | picked up a whole lot of the languages of the places that I've lived in and experienced. |
| 1:06.7 | And now things are starting to get real, because as many of you know, I recently moved to Spain, set up a residence here, |
| 1:13.6 | and really fallen in love with the beautiful city of Barcelona. |
| 1:16.7 | And not only is Spanish, |
| 1:18.3 | an incredibly useful language to learn, |
| 1:21.4 | it would help me in a lot of my daily interactions here, |
| 1:24.1 | but frankly, it's starting to get a little embarrassing. |
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