So I've been trying to teach myself Spanish for a long time now. I've used a combination of Rosetta Stone, a Nintendo DS game, workbooks, watching TV and my newest strategy, subscribing to People in Spanish. I had thought that I wasn't making any progress, but I can pretty much read an entire article in People and understand what it's about. I can't give you a word-for-word translation, but I'm certainly better than I used to be. Here's the problem - I can really only read and write. When I hear people speaking in Spanish, they just talk too fast and I get hung up on what they said three sentences ago. And it still takes me far too long to form a sensible sentence in my head to be able to speak it.
It's progress, though, and as I keep practicing, I'll get there!
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