It’s no secret that over the last 6 months or so my Spanish learning efforts have been less than impressive. Well did I get punished for that over the weekend!
It’d been ages since I met up with my Spanish friends from down south so I decided to go and pay them a visit. We had dinner and all went out for a night on the town. Good times were had but I barely understood anything.
Now I’m pretty good with the Spanish now and can hold my own in most conversations…but I did not perform well that night. It seemed I got thrown into a whirlpool of Spanish slang and dirty jokes that had my brain aching.
The thing about learning a language is you can usually understand the overall theme but can often get lost on the subtleties. Well jokes and humour are full of subtleties…which makes it very hard for us poor non-native speakers.
The moral of the story is I’m going to have to spend more time with my friends if I really want to improve my Spanish further. So I’m committing to seeing them a lot more now!
But I will be taking aspirin when I do it…