Today I had this conversation (in Spanish) over coffee with the student I'm working with:
me: I really want to be fluent in Spanish but I'm starting to think that it's almost impossible for me.
him: mmmmmm someday, maybe. You're fluent when you start to dream in the other language.
me: But I've dreamt in Spanish many times before.
him: You're fluent, then.
me: I'm obviously not.
him: Yeah.
me: Well, I can't really speak clearly in English, either, so maybe that's my problem.
him: Yeah, probably.
Encouraging!!!
He also told me that if I were a kid in Mexico they'd have to send me to speech therapy because I find it physically impossible to roll my r's.
My conversational Spanish lags so far behind my comprehension, it's ridiculous. I get this feeling that it's never really going to get better. oh well ...
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my best friend, a tall blonde white girl who is a spanish major, speaks only spanish when she is drunk. i don't know that this is an appropriate thing to say on someone's blog? but that alone has encouraged me to think about learning spanish!
are you in mexico to learn the language?
ha ha! it's true, alcohol definitely improves language abilities!
I'm in Mexico to do scientific research and to practice my spoken Spanish.
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