My wife and I are going to Argentina in April (she's native; it's my 6th time). I'm sure I'll improve my Spanish, since I've pretty much permanently improved with every immersion and two weeks will be a record-long stay for me. But that won't take much work, just showing up and doing my best.
I have a shit-ton of professional continuing ed this year, but I hope to knock it all out by September, at which point the two of us have talked about studying a new language together. My top 3 would be Japanese, Mandarin and Arabic. TBH I can't recall what she's said about hers, but we both love the idea of collaborating so we can practice at home together.
Things I learned today: My fluency is nowhere near good enough to explain in Spanish why I want to retire early and why I think there is more to life than work. Lucky for me someone else sitting beside me understood completely and argued on my behalf.
Ahhhh the things that come up after the simple question of why are you studying Spanish....
Solo hay que practicar. Si quieras decir que no te gusta trabajar solamente por dinero, y has cosas mas importantes que sentarte en una oficina hasta que mueras... asi se dice. ;)
Tambien es posible decir que la libertad te importa mas que todo, y quieres ahorrar plata para comprarla prontisimo!
I fantasize about taking a long (6-12 months) vacation in my wife's hometown, staying with her mom in the house she grew up in, and really hitting fluency sometime after FIRE. She's less excited about the idea than I am, but I think she'd do it just to indulge me.
He didn't try to tell me what I said, now that I remember...
"I would like to reserve a person and a room for one night", maybe? Trololol