my husband is totally fluent – so the first few weeks here weren’t like walking blindfolded.

i’m not confident enough to admit that i am 100% fluent with spanish, since talking is the last to fall into place for me. i can totally get around and be out in the city with no inhibitions, but i’m not having deep philosophical conversations yet! :0)

i can understand pretty much everything too, which is fun. buenos aires being a much more metropolitian area than montevideo (uruguay) has people from all over south america – so unless you are peruvian, i can understand you, :)

i took one pathetic and pointless class in high school, and i vaguely remember a spanish 2 class in there… i think… but most of that time i was too interested in the cute boy who sat next to me than learning how to say what time it was in spanish, ha- we didn’t have the class frequently enough to retain any useful information (i think you need to be with it everyday to really *Get it*) i asn’t motivated enough. i knew about three words when we moved down here and so anything i knew has just been absorbed by living. no formal class or study. so i’ve learned the same way my son has, and by necessity. it’s been fun!