AI Spanish tutor by Patric Tengelin
How A Few Months Of Silence Reawakened My High-School Spanish — and How AI Rocket-Fueled the Rest I'm Patric Tengelin and a few months ago, I found myself in an unusual season of life — a long stretch of quiet, stillness, and reflection. Less noise, fewer people, fewer obligations. Just space. At first it felt strange, but then something unexpected happened. One afternoon, while tuning through random online radio stations (out of pure boredom and curiosity), I stumbled onto a Latin American channel blasting merengue — upbeat, joyful, impossible-not-to-move music. And suddenly… something clicked. Words I hadn't used in years started bubbling up. Phrases, verbs, random expressions from high-school Spanish surfaced like old friends I hadn’t seen in a decade. It felt like someone unlocked a door in my brain that I didn’t even realize was closed. That moment kicked off a real hunger in me — a genuine pull to speak Spanish again, to reconnect with it properly, not just pa...