Speaking Spanish is hard. Getting good at Spanish is hard. Any foreigner who lives here can relate to various situations where people talk to you like you are stupid because they think you won't understand or where you are in a group of Argentines who are all talking fast and it is hard to add anything to the conversation.
Luckily, those types of sitations do not happen to me that much anymore (now that I have lived here for awhile).
The best feeling in the world is when someone THINKS you are from here. To give a specific example, last night I went to a birthday party and I was talking to a 12-year-old girl about overalls (yeah, that's right!). She wanted to know what they were called in English, so I said, "overalls", and then she asked me (in Spanish), "how do you speak English so well?"
When I told her I was from the United States she was confused and surprised because I "didn't talk like other foreiners".
Even though this was the opinion of a 12-year-old who probably doesn't have a lot of experience talking to foreigners, it was still pretty great! It made my day :).
Friday, August 6, 2010
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