… and poured full sentences of Castellano out of my mouth! Full sentences! Out of MY mouth! Like mute babies who all of a sudden start talking out of the blue, I started pulling words out of the air to build sensical phrases on the spot. Like a storm, it all just came raining down.
I don’t want to beat this language learning thing like a dead horse, but wow the little victories count for a lot. Last night, the boy’s mom was over for dinner and in one fell swoop I said, “Estoy cansada. Normalmente, no tengo clases los viernes, pero por la huelga de maestras en marzo, tenemos una clase hoy.”
I stopped and looked at the boy, our jaws hanging down to the floor in shock. Did all of that just come out of my mouth, in real time?! I looked around to see if someone else could have said that out loud because that couldn’t have possibly been me, could it?!
We high-fived across the table like it was new year’s eve 1999. You cannot even imagine the elation.
We celebrated with milanesa de pollo delivery and a kilo bucket of ice cream. Reward systems are important. =)
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Yeeeey – congratulations! That must be such a cool moment, finding out all that slaving away on verbs and grammar paid off. Keep enjoying and good luck.
Thank you Eva. It's been an up and down ride but so rewarding!