My Experience

My Experience

What adult language learning took away from me

When I think about how I learned languages as a child and how I’ve tried to learn them as an adult, the biggest difference isn’t efficiency or motivation. It’s what learning felt like. As a kid, language wasn’t something I performed. It was something I participated

My Experience

My English didn’t break. My Spanish did.

English is my second language, but it doesn’t feel like one, and I think that distinction matters more than I thought. I learned English very early, before I had any real sense of what learning a language even meant. From around the age of four or five, English was