Where do people get inspiration to learn another language from? (part 2) ...The truth is, all that I learned in that English Institute came in handy because in Junior High and High School I totally excelled in the subject, whenever we had English exams, most of my classmates would fight to get a sit next to me to copy me. Still, I lacked that passion needed to continue my English studies even though it was something I was good at. I reached my adolescence in the middle of the 70's and a wave of American and British music invaded almost every radio station in my country and I really liked that music even though I barely grasped their meaning because my basic English skills scarcely included listening, I was good at understanding the written stuff but hadn't ever heard a native speaker in my life, my English teachers were 100% mexicans, so I would just hummed those nice songs now known as "oldies". Time passed by, I got married, had my children, brought them up, worked my way to put together a tight-knit family and forgot about English for over 20 years. All of a sudden, in my mid-forties, the memories of my granny and her efforts to give me a nice education started flashing in my dreams and sadly I valued those efforts way too late. I also started having the real urge of understand the lyrics of those oldies songs I fell in love with...my inspiration had finally come along. So basically, by doing this, I feel as if I'm honoring my grand-mother and her memory because she planted the seed which stood there, paciently waiting for the day to blossom. Luckily, this thing called internet came along and with it, a lot of material to resume my English learning which I'm now doing with that passion I should have had back then. Now I understand the meaning of those cherished songs I used to listen to and everything seems to make sense. I´d be glad to have nice conversations with italki people every once in a while to keep working in my speaking skills.