Like I mentioned last week, I was traveling. Some fun (language) moments from that were things like this:

• Had several points where my group (who otherwise mostly didn’t speak Spanish) asked me to tell a native-speaker something
• And vice-versa a time or two, where a native speaker was like ‘You speak Spanish? I’ll explain this to you, then you can tell your group’.
• Went into a restaurant and ordered take-out for the group without a translator tagging along
• Had someone struggling to come up with the English to tell me something - stopped him and said Spanish was fine, to his relief

There were also some low-lights tho. A couple times I forgot a key word that kept me from fully understanding a message, or I’d hear something wrong (like 80 instead of 8). But generally I was pretty happy with where I got.

I finished the book I was reading this week (Prince of Fog), and started another (The Little Prince). Now that I’m done with this trip, I’ll probably wrap up reading that last book and drop Spanish pretty hard to get back to Japanese. I always feel a little bad about that, I think I could get pretty good with Spanish if I stuck with it. But there’s only so much time in the day, Japanese is the one I most want to learn, and I’ve had it in maintenance mode for a month or so.