Habla Espanol

I've been taking a basic Spanish language class for about three months now. And while I enjoy it, I also wish I could absorb everything faster.

I think I can conjugate now at the rate of a three year old. I have some minimal grasp of a few verb forms. Listening to a normal conversation in Spanish is kinda like watching the Matrix... I can only see certain words.

verde. diez. casa. mesa. manzana. tio. tia. telefono. kuchara. nobio. nobia. ...

I've taken a liking to listening to the reggaeton radio station. La Calle, 105.9 (siento cinco punto nueve). While I still don't get anything that they're saying, I'm becoming at home with listening to the language. One of my goals is to be able to understand an entire Daddy Yankee song.

I try to ask some latino friends to translate some useful sentences and phrases.

English: "Wipe them out. All of them."
Spanish: "Maten los. Todos."

Sometimes, I try to come up with some more complex sentences.

Spanish: "Yo quiero a ver el New York Yankees ganar el Serie del Mundial."
English: "I want to watch the New York Yankees win the World Series."

It's most likely going to take several months (or years) more before I can actually listen to a conversation in Spanish and understand and respond to it immediately. It would be well worth it and amazing when that exact moment arrives for me.

Adios. Hasta luego.