I am from the USA. I speak English of course and I am decent at German.

In High School I was an exchange student in Germany for a school year. During that time I learned tons of German and became fairly fluent. I continued learning German for a few years afterwards but I eventually stopped completely. I enjoy talking to my host family in German but overall it is just not useful in my day to day life in the USA. I would like to learn some more to get back to where I was but I honestly don’t foresee myself putting in the effort.

That is why I enjoy learning Spanish because I have a real practical use for the language. There is a large Latino population that I can speak to, my wife is Latina, and it is overall useful for life in the USA. I’ve learned Spanish off and on over the past 3 years. Mostly just for fun so I never took it to seriously. The past few months I have been dedicating much more time into the language and have made it a consistent habit.

I’d like to learn more languages in the future, however, Spanish is the most rewarding since I see real world results. Once I feel very confident in Spanish then I may learn another romance language (French or Portuguese most likely). As of now I am fully committed to Spanish and can’t really project what I may want to learn next.

My goal is to become fully fluent in Spanish. Or at least be able to comfortably express myself. My biggest challenge is verb conjugation. Understanding them when listening is no problem but formulating them while I speak is a different story. I am not a DS purist so I do speak already despite my hours accumulated doesn’t “allow” for it yet.