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Adjusting to Life in Spain: I Can’t Understand Spoken Spanish (and What Helps)

Adjusting to Life in Spain: I Can’t Understand Spoken Spanish (and What Helps)

After living in Spain for a year and a half, I assumed I would be fluent by now. Not a chance! So why is it so difficult to understand spoken Spanish when I can read and write it fairly well? There’s actually a scientific reason why it’s much harder for learners to grasp spoken Spanish. 

Adjusting to Life in Spain: How Am I Improving My Spanish?

Adjusting to Life in Spain: How Am I Improving My Spanish?

I don’t expect to become fluent in Spanish just by living in Spain. So from reading familiar books in Spanish to changing my phone’s default language, from taking private Spanish lessons to simply refusing to speak English, here’s how I’m improving my Spanish.