Languages

Today I tried to write someone an email in Spanish. A simple, short email, maybe ten lines long at most. Shouldn't be a problem, right? I lived in Spain for a year. I majored in Spanish. I've even dreamt in Spanish before.

The problem is that I've been in Italy for three weeks. Speaking Italian 80% of the time, or more.

Italian and Spanish are terribly too similar. Deceptively so.

This simple little email took me almost half an hour. I might be exagerrating. But, still, it should have taken less than three minutes. And I still think there were mistakes...Italian words and Italian grammar strung throughout...

Oh well.

Too bad the email went to the person in charge of maintaining a list of Spanish tutors and translators in the Ithaca area... It wasn't about that, it was about babysitting a baby that hasn't even been born yet... But, still...I don't know how much longer I'll be on that list...

Alguien me puede hablar en espanol? Necesito practicar...