Learning a new language

I don't know how many of you have tried learning a new language, but it is at times definitely not a fun experience and one that brings up many insecurities.  Maybe it is partly my personality too, but I am always afraid of not saying things the right way and I get so shy around people that it is hard for me to actually talk.  Ugh....

Our second semester has just begun for school again and this time I am taking a part-time class with some other moms, in hopes that we will be able to get more done on our days off.  So far it is going well, and we all seem to click.  It is so funny though.... You should hear us in our reading class.  It is like going back to Kindergarten or first grade all over again.  I don't know how the teachers can sit there for a full hour and hear us all butcher their language.  It has to be a painful experience.  It is amazing though with just a little bit of time and effort put in, we have managed to make what used to just look like a bunch of scribbles a bit legible.  Although if you change the font, forget it.  I remember when I first learned to read english.  I would go along in the car and read every road sign, or anything with writing on it.  That's how it is all over again, although I feel a bit slower now, and most of what I read I still don't understand.  But, may God give us the grace to get this language down. 

We can actually communicate quite a bit now, which is fun.