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I never formally learned Spanish, but yesterday I found out that I absorbed enough of it through music and tv shows and spending childhood holidays in Spain that I could hold a surprisingly ok conversation with very understanding native speakers ๐
That's very cool. I actually had the same thing with english; my native language is arabic but since i watched mostly english content i'd say i'm fluent & native (technically). However it's mostly a written and read language, i don't speak it much, which can cause me to trip over my words lol.
Haha same, although I formally learned English for years, a few decades of constant exposure made me more fluent than the educational system could ever can.
For Spanish however, I'm still riding the high. I can read it somewhat, as it's related to my native French. But I never knew I could hold more interesting conversations than ordering food or asking for directions ๐