I am just a baby...but I can do nothing but grow up.

After my venting last night I was able to fall asleep. This morning I was thinking that everyone starts off as a baby when they are learning a new language. I think about Alisa. She doesn't seem frustrated when we speak to her or when she is trying to say something, she just continues her practicing babble and says the words that she can. We all started off not being able to verbally communicate and just as it took us time to learn our primary language, so will it take time for me to grasp this new language. It is not abnormal that I am only hearing words and not sentences, that my speech gets twisted, or that I feel overloaded when I am listening to someone speak. It sounds like gibberish now but that is only because my brain is trying to get used to comprehending and computing this new language. Though I am an extremely sharp person (:-p) I have to give my brain the time it needs.

Yeah I took Spanish in school but that was over 5 years ago and I hardly ever practiced. This is a dramatically different experience and I shouldn't get down on myself. They say a new habit can be formed in 21 days, I wonder if this is the same for beginning to grasp a language? We will see. Day 10...