hello everyone I (23M) work at my hometown’s airport as a gate agent and I’m constantly cycling gates and meeting so, many, people.
In Houston, especially IAH, there are a lot of Hispanic people that pass through my section of the airport, international arrivals & departures. now, I’m an African American dude, but I spend literally 6/8 hours of my day speaking Spanish, and let me tell you, genuinely, the forced immersion does work for finding new words and getting grammatical help from friendly passengers. It’s kind of awesome seeing a Hispanic persons face every day when they see I speak (conversational) spanish, I honestly love my job so making people happy by speaking their language decently enough is EXACTLY why I do it.
But as much as I’m speaking spanish every single day, I’m still not ”great” or even “fluent” and I feel like it’s because I don’t train outside of work. I can *push* myself and speak Spanish at work, but learning new words and understanding new granmatical piecds, I just don’t praice enough *alone* because in my head I figure, meh, Im speaking it everyday at work. I’m growing in some way (which is true, but I would like to learn more effectively)
fluency is my eventual goal, so, what can I do to practice learning new words and grammatical concepts.
anything but Duolingo because i did it for so many years and it does nothing. primarily , I want to continue building knowledge in new words/build sentences cause I, for the most part, understand the grammar, but when I speak to other Hispanic Passengers all day, I’m struggling-ish, but Im always appreciated for trying. I always say I consider myself A2 level so, yeah.