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08: more than Spanish lessons

08: more than Spanish lessons

how I'm changing my relationship with fear, mistakes, and failure

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Nneka Kelly
Jul 16, 2023
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I’m learning Spanish.

With a year of high school Spanish with Señorita Thomas and practice living in Miami, I started ahead of the curve. Guns blazing. Zipping through the exercises with no mistakes. Easily blasting through bronze, silver, and gold levels.

Around day 27, I hit the wall. 

“Where are you from?”

“Donde esta usted?”

Behhhh! 

“Eres de?”

Behhhh!

I me…

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