Spanish is hard

I’m taking four hours a day, five days a week of Spanish while in Buenos Aires. I’m inappropriately placed in level 2, which is my own fault. I didn’t want to suffer though “Hola como estas” over and over with a bunch of people who’d never taken Spanish before.

I took Spanish for three years in elementary school.

After floundering through four different tenses and countless irregular verbs, I’m starting to think that my elementary-level Spanish did not perhaps qualify me for this. Now that I think about it, we mostly just sang songs about chocolate and learned the bunny hop in Spanish.

What I realized today is that I don’t actually want to learn Spanish. I want to just know it.