I wish I could just open my brain and insert the Spanish language in it and be done with this language.
I’ve been living overseas for about seven years now and still don’t understand the locals when they speak quickly to me.
They don’t enunciate well either and it makes it entirely tough to know what the heck they are saying to me. I will keep listening to podcasts online and trying to talk to the locals each morning and maybe in one more year I will master this darn language once and for all. I work for this HVAC supplier and have a lot of heating and cooling shoppers come in asking questions and I can’t answer most of them because I am so lost when they speak. I assume if I work at it though for one more year I will finally have a great grasp of Spanish, however the local supplier owners also speak Catalan, which is way different from Spanish, but my HVAC tech neighbor said he would help me learn it once I get a grip on the Spanish language. I know it just takes patience and discipline, two things which are in short supply in my world. The HEPA filter sales lady helps me with Spanish when we are toiling at the HVAC supplier but I need to push myself to learn more of it on my own too. I assume I am on the right path though because five years ago I could barely speak a word of the language and now I can speak quite a bit.