Relocating to Spain: Struggles with Spanish

Well, here am in Spain, where they, ah, speak Spanish. Time to step up and deal with it. My ability in Spanish is not bad, all things considered. To recap what I talked about in <a href="https://medium.com/@nancypfef/relocating-to-spain-im-going-to-be-an-immigrant-a1cc9f1426ea" rel="noopener">this post from last February</a>, I had four years of Spanish instruction in junior high and high school, ending with tenth grade. I loved it and was very good at it, but you don’t get fluency from that level of instruction, unless you are surrounded by speakers of the language, which I was not. I didn’t get any more Spanish instruction until I spent a month at a language school in Querétaro, Mexico, in my mid-forties. I had five hours of one-to-one classes daily, plus “cultural activities,” which could mean seeing a museum, learning to cook chiles rellenos, or going to the cantina for a paloma. While I learned a great deal in that month, fluency continued to elude me. <a href="https://medium.com/@nancypfef/relocating-to-spain-struggles-with-spanish-92b2aab36b5a">Learn More</a>