I’ll give you some sentences to translate into Spanish
- I’ll show you where you make mistakes
- I’ll keep track of what you need to practise
- Change my choices if you want
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For years, I believed that learning Spanish meant guessing what sounded right. If someone had told me earlier that intuition was not enough, I would have studied differently. My old teacher used to insist that I write down every doubt I had. But I was so afraid of making mistakes that I never asked anything. I would invent words and hope that the listener understood me. It was not until I moved to Madrid that I realised how superficial my Spanish was. My flatmates corrected me whenever I confused ser and estar. I felt frustrated, as if I had wasted years studying the wrong way. A friend recommended that I stop guessing and start checking everything. From that day on, I have written down every word whose meaning I am not sure of. I no longer accept any sentence that I cannot justify grammatically. It is essential that students understand the rules before improvising with them. If I had known this from the beginning, I would speak with much more confidence today.