I don't know.

I'm a very shy person. I also have a huge fear of looking stupid and embarrassing myself. Which makes trying to learn Spanish quite difficult. I've been studying on my own and I can understand a lot more than I could when I first started dating my boyfriend, but I still have a hard time getting myself to actually speak the language. I'll usually only speak it with my boyfriend and only when nobody else can hear me...

 

Which makes me incredibly thankful that I have an extremely patient boyfriend with patient friends that do their best to communicate with me, even if I'll only respond with, "Yes, no, or I don't know." I'm sure I must make them all want to bang their heads against a wall out of frustration sometimes, but they just make fun of my frequent use of "I don't know" and keep trying. I hope one day soon I will be able to get over my fear and actually be able to talk with them...