Suckeando.
Because I am getting SO OLD, it’s been about 10 years since I was last in a Spanish language class. I took a year of Japanese, a year of German, and a medical Spanish class, but since then my language skills have been mostly atrophying.
Then my husband wanted to go to Ecuador. So here I am, a pharmacist who supposedly speaks Spanish, in the middle of a pharmacy, and I can barely get a Ventolin inhaler. I picked up a novel that looks fairly interesting, and after several intense hours of frowning at it, I’ve gotten through the prologue. I downloaded an audio version of Tales of the Brothers Grimm last year, thinking it might be a good brush-up for my receptive language skills.
HA. Maybe if I slowed it by a factor of 4. I have to fix this. This is crap.