(October 11, 2017 at 3:59 am)MichelleInMX Wrote: My biggest challenge and frustration is Spanish. It's easy for a child to pick up a 2nd, 3rd, and even 4th language but OMG! Spanish is killing me! It is so much harder for adults. I can get by and they have a bit of a clue what topic I am discussing but they have to really work hard to understand me. I work for a surgeon here, we call him Dr. Juan because when I say his name nobody knows who I am talking about. They always ALWAYS correct me and tell me how to say his name and I would swear that is exactly what and how I just said it!
I have your talent for foreign language. In France I make them beg me to switch to English before I'll stop butchering the French. Never had to do that with Spanish, partly because I can pronounce that a hell of a lot better though I can not trill an R to save to my life. But in either language I can't understand a native speaker who doesn't speak one word at a time as if I was a baby, and really my pronunciation pretty much sucks in any language.
Nice to cyber meet you. Living in Berkeley California I am so jealous of your cost of living!
