"Learn a new language and get a new soul." ~Czech Proverb
I have been working on my "new soul" for 6 years now. I can now report that learning Spanish has been, by far, the most frustrating thing I have ever tried to do. I have literally been at the point of tears more than once, and have wanted to quit a 1,000 times. But I keep at it, for reasons I'm not sure even I understand. The other side of the coin, though, is that language learning is incredibly rewarding. On April 10, while in the Dominican Republic, I preached twice in Spanish. It was a little rough, to be sure, but I made it through. So I continue to study every day, in pursuit of that holy grail of language that we call "fluency".
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