You can understand bits and pieces of a Rosalia song, but you also realize not even native Spanish speakers can understand her. Your trilled R no longer sounds like a croaking frog. You're still a gringo, but a respected one at the very least.

Damon —
Your Instructor

Encompassing a little more than 0.01% genetic latino makeup, I first fell in love with foreign languages via some really great high school Spanish teachers. I then spent months, if not years, in Spanish-speaking countries like Ecuador, Panamá, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, and if we can consider it another country, Miami.

I'm now steppin’ up and helpin’ out my fellow gringos with their butchered Spanish.