You attend 9.5 months of Spanish School and Then…

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You attend 9.5 months of Spanish School, start real life, and then…

1. You call a guy regarding his car advertised for sale just down the street. His thoughts? “No entiendo.” Click.

2. You pat yourself on the back for surviving yet another meeting in Spanish only to find out that the conversation you thought you were successfully tracking for 20 minutes was actually completely wrong. Like, not even the same ballpark. Whew! At least you didn’t share your strong opinions that were forming (that time)!

3. You finish telling somebody you were at language school for 9 months to then not understand one word that came out of his/her mouth. IS THAT SPANISH OR CLINGON?

4. You spend A LOT of time talking about the weather, soccer, and your family—successful Spanish topics others can nod their heads to while pretending to understand you.

5. You realize after the third, “Would you repeat that, please?”, you just have to confess with the ever-helpful, “I’m learning Spanish and am not able to understand all your words” line. The conversation with mercifully stop and you can move on with life.

6. Coke is actually therapeutic to Spanish stress, although not-so-much to the waistline.

7. When you need to feel good about yourself, go run errands in which one-sentence survival Spanish is enough. You can even fool yourself for awhile.

8.In addition to  statement #7…Only invite people to visit you who don’t know Spanish. I’m confident my parents will think we are rockstars in two days. Nobody share this list with them!

9. You find yourself becoming paralyzed in the middle of sentences to figure out which conjugation of the verb to use along with the order of the sentence. The result: according to the other person, you just randomly and awkwardly  froze for no reason. Slapping your hand over your face in an attempt to reboot your Spanish is also not a tactic you should use if you want others to think you are normal.

10. You recognize you better hire a tutor ASAP! School is NOT over.

2 thoughts on “You attend 9.5 months of Spanish School and Then…”

  2. If it is any consolation, I say things in English often, which are not remotely what I had in my head and thought I said. Your Mom will give me a quizzical look, “what did you just say”, and I repeat what I thought I said. She will say, “that is NOT what you said”. So, trying in a foreign language has GOT to be hard. Love Dad

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