It is going to be a challenge for me to become bilingual in Spanish. I mentioned this briefly in my presentation, that I want to minor in Spanish and do a study aboard trip to a Spanish speaking country. However, these are going to be the most challenging classes I will ever take; even though I have studied, read, spoke, and wrote in the language of Spanish for seven academic years.
The problem is that I never used that language actively throughout middle or high school. Even though I made out of those classes with A’s, ultimately it barely gives me a basic knowledge of the language. I finished high school with an A in Spanish IV honors, so I decided to take the DePaul language placement test, I just about gave up half way because I didn’t understand a lick of what it was saying.
I truly wish it wasn’t like this. That I kept practicing learning spanish both before and after school, including weekends. I wish I sought after those who spoke spanish and practice with them. The only problem is that I made the excuse that my school was too predominately white, there weren’t more than ten students speaking Spanish in my class of 350. What’s worse is that these Spanish classes, after Spanish II they were known as blow off classes that everyone had to take. Even the teachers didn’t provide an environment of urgency to learn a second language. Again, I keep on making these excuses when in reality I should’ve known better and applied myself to those courses just as how I’m about to do so now with my Spanish 103.
