Okay, olay, oh hey. So I have been in Peru for about a total of eleven weeks. So far I have learned an incredible amount of Spanish. At first I was seriously lacking in my confidence to even have a conversation to even order food. But now I have the ability to tell the server exactly what I would like to consume because my stomach hurts and that I get cranky when I am hungry. I have still so much to learn to talk with someone comfortably though because in English I know I have the ability to talk about extremely difficult topics and give an education point of view or opinion on that subject. But I have noticed from myself it is not necessarily a lack of thinking, but simply a lack of vocabulary. But the best part of being here in Lima is that I am learning the vocabulary but also the slang and how it can be applied to certain situations.
I have learned a great deal, in my opinion I learn more from my teachers because I feel more pressured to do well in a classroom. But I am more of a visual learner and it helps me incredibly to see a word spelled out than hearing it. I am so far from my goal of being fluent, but being here in Peru has made me so much more so. Because what I didn’t realize from spending time here, I started to think in Spanish sometimes, which was crazy. I was Facetiming one of my friends back home and she asked me a question and I responded in Spanish, I didn’t even know that I did it until she yelled at me. To sum up everything, I am not a fluent speaker, or may never be, but being in here in Peru has incredulously helped me improve in my personal abilities with the language of Spanish. I hope that I will never stop learning Spanish.
I have learned a great deal, in my opinion I learn more from my teachers because I feel more pressured to do well in a classroom. But I am more of a visual learner and it helps me incredibly to see a word spelled out than hearing it. I am so far from my goal of being fluent, but being here in Peru has made me so much more so. Because what I didn’t realize from spending time here, I started to think in Spanish sometimes, which was crazy. I was Facetiming one of my friends back home and she asked me a question and I responded in Spanish, I didn’t even know that I did it until she yelled at me. To sum up everything, I am not a fluent speaker, or may never be, but being in here in Peru has incredulously helped me improve in my personal abilities with the language of Spanish. I hope that I will never stop learning Spanish.