And, I do. I’m over half-way there. I’ve got it pretty well down. I can’t tell you how much going to Spanish-speaking countries helped me with the language. For those of you considering immersing yourselves to help complete your goals- IMMERSION WORKS!
I’m back in Spanish 1 at my university- both looking for an easy A, and making for absolute concrete certain that I’ve got Spanish…that I’ve got it in my head. I’m going up to Spanish 4 and Conversation…and then taking French. French and Irish are my next two languages.
After that, I hope for Russian, Danish, or Hungarian.
We’ll see.
gettinglost has written 5 entries about this goal
I went traveling in Guat. Mex. and Cuba… Realized I know a whole lot more than I thought. Not fluent, but off to a running start.
I start fresh this semester with Spanish 1…from the beginning, all over again…to recount what I missed in the 7 years of Spanish I took during my pot hazed youth :P
It’s not that it’s a hard language, because it’s not. It’s remembering all of the crap that I can’t use. My fiance speaks fluent spanish, but in different countries, it’s spoken differently. He’s Venezuelan, which is more Castillian?...I don’t know. It’s frustrating wanting to do something, but not devoting the time to it.
I could kick myself in the ass right now.
I am either going to purchase a labelmaker (and stick labels in spanish to everything I can find in my home, car, etc).... OR…I’m going to find a cooler way to make it work.
I am going to start pressing my boyfriend to help me brush up…since he’s completely fluent (with a nice accent and dialect).
Well, to narrow it down, at least some…I have a mediocre knowledge of Spanish…and I am going to Venezuela soon, to brush up on it.
