My Spanish Sucks

I spoke more Spanish today than at any time since my honeymoon in Spain 7 years ago. It reminded me how badly I speak Spanish. At one point, trying to say "Let's take one more trip (viaje)," I think I said "Let's take one more old man (viejo)." Apparently I'm even funnier in Spanish than in English because mis compadres laughed at me frequently.



No matter, I spent all day asking them how to say things in Spanish, and then of course I'd forget immediately because I haven't slept in two days. It seems I can't commit one or two new verbs to long term memory, much less conjugate in the past or future tense.



The only thing worse than my Spanish speaking vocabulary is my Spanish comprehension. Let's not even talk about the misunderstandings that I was party to. Okay, let's talk about one. I wanted to say "side," which came out as "sida." Of course, "SIDA" is Spanish for AIDS. Bad choice of malapropisms. (The word I was looking for was "lado.") I also spent all day trying to ask what was the opposite of a word I knew, but I didn't know how to say "opposite" in Spanish. It took me 8 eight hours to remember that "rapido" is the opposite of "despacio."



One thing I took away from the day was that many computer book readers must be totally lost. I've always understood that some were lost when reading books. I have new appreciation for how lost most of them are when trying to formulate a meaningful question. Anyway, I exercised my brain, mouth, and back more today than I have in some time. I'll sleep well next time I get the chance.



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