Estoy aprendiendo Espanol…
Yes, I’m still working on my Spanish. You’d think after taking 5 years of Spanish classes and living here for 8 months I’d have it down, right? Nope. I understand a lot, but I have this terrible fear of speaking! My tongue gets all frozen when I’m forced to speak. I hate sounding wrong and the thought that I might say something poorly really freaks me out.
Thankfully, we have a great Pastor’s wife who offered to practice with me. She is working on her English, so it’s mutually beneficial. We spend half of our time speaking only Spanish and half speaking only English. I feel like just in a few weeks I have gained a lot of confidence in my Spanish and feel a little less fear when I talk to others. We meet weekly and talk about our families, life and many other things. It’s helping me so much with my conversational Spanish and I’m really enjoying the time to have a friend as well!
Yeah, it can certainly be hard to speak Spanish in front of people. It takes time to get over that fear, but meeting with people like Judith is the perfect way to do it!