I only halfway paid attention in high school Spanish class, and it may be too late now to catch up, no matter how many levels of Rosetta Stone I order.
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
English is not my first language.
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.
I pick up languages fast.
Rapid acquisition of English should be the paramount goal of any immigrant language instruction program.
It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
It took me just a couple of months to pick up Telugu.
I forced myself to watch Spanish TV and listen to Spanish radio all the time. I think I'm lucky because, for whatever reason, people from the Balkans seem to have a talent for learning languages.
Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
I was very adept at acquiring languages.
If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
Initially, picking up the Dravadian language was a bit tough act.
