I took three years of Spanish and got an A every semester. Even when it was still fresh in my mind, I was nowhere near able to hold even a very simple conversation. And now just a few years later it's all totally gone from my brain.
My mother's native language is Spanish and she never taught me, which I resent her for. But I still find it incredible how shitty my public school education in Spanish was. We really should be teaching kids a second language from kindergarten up.
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3rded, dreaming spanish rules. I'm also trying to learn mandarin via a few other comprehesible input channels, but they aren't set up nearly as well as dreamingspanish is.