last week, i started attending spanish classes at the local community college. i tried out both spanish 3 and spanish 4. i’m leaning more towards the latter.

it’s been many years since i’ve seriously taken a spanish class (does the one week of intermediate spanish in cusco, peru two years ago count? it’s been 10 (holy cow!!) years since i took spanish 25 (reading and analysis of literary texts) at uc berkeley), but i never seem to completely forget my spanish—i only get rusty. there are several final verb tenses that they will be covering in spanish 3, while spanish 4 more actively uses what you’ve learned in 1-3. i don’t need a whole semester to relearn those tenses, maybe a week. the only other thing i’d be missing out on is the accumulation of vocabulary, but i’ll just have to work on that on my own as i go along.

being in a classroom environment where i can be exposed to the spanish language has been on my mind for many, many years. but there was always something else distracting me (or that i was using as an excuse not to continue pursuing one of my dreams to become fluent in spanish someday). so i’m really glad that i’m doing this. admittedly, i am a bit nervous, but i know that will pass soon enough.