I cannot communicate with any ease whatsoever. My Spanish el suckos, and the harder I try to think/speak in Spanish, the more I seem to forget how to function properly in English. It's as if one is improving at the same rate in which the other is degenerating. Maybe the degeneration is happening slightly faster than the improvement. Maybe it's all in my head. But, for example, anytime I try to think of a word that is encompassed within the word 'thing' the only word that comes to mind is 'cosa' both of which are far to vague to describe the 'thing' I would like to describe. It is very frustrating. Very. Frustrating. I have deduced through a very complex set of calculations that, both languages combined, I have regressed a good 5 or 6 years in life with regard to language. Here's an excellent example that just came to mind:
I was studying with a local Argentine, he was helping me learn new words and such. As he was quizzing me on my notecards he comes to the word 'suceder' or, to succeed. He flips it over and on the back is written 'to suceed'. He turns to me, raises one eyebrow, points to the word and gives me a very doubtful look. I stare back, not quite seeing what the problem was. He asks me to say the word, so I do "to succeed!" "Falta un c?" "mmmm, no. I don't think so...wait..maybe" "Maybe I help you with your English too?"
Other words like 'make' and 'having' have started to replace the wrong words. por ejemplo: I'm having nervous right now, or, I make it now, that gives me scared, or something along those lines. I've never actually said those out loud, por suerte, but they've been on the tip of my tongue on occasions.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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