We celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary in Rome. It was a fabulous trip filled with history and awe, dirt and shopping.  The best part about it was the shopping! ... I've never been much of a shopper. I could never really get into blowing all my hard earned money on something. ... although I have to admit that when you don't have a job sometimes the window shopping becomes a happy pastime.
But this is NOT about shopping. Nope this is about Language! Yes!
Now while I have been learning Norwegian as a new language, old habits die hard. I have been struggling to have the muscle memory switch from Spanish to Norwegian.  I would be making sentences and the first thing that comes to my head is a spanish word. "Maybe" was one ... the spanish word kept coming into mind. I have been struggling to make that go away.
So I 'm very impressed when people can speak more than 2 languages .... and keep them separate to!
Heck I'm pretty impressed with kids learning these languages!

Can you imagine the language callallo my poor brain went through this past few days?..... I have been learning Norwegian, I go to a new country with a new language and I have the HARDEST time just saying No or Si .... Gratsi .... or Buongiorno! Buona sera!  For the Life of me, it took me until the very last hour (it felt like it) before I was saying the right thing!.
I kept starting in Norwegian .... going to english or spanish and hardly ever to Italian!!
My husby was having a fun time while I was wondering how he knew so much Italian! lol .
Now its always been a dream of mine to be Bilingual .. in fact  I think it was 2 days before we left Norway for Rome, we had our first full length conversation at Dinner in Norwegian. Yes yes yes ... i was very proud of myself and of him too .. for being so good at pronounciating (think a Trini dialects ... its like learning the Queen's English and someone is talking to you like they from Penal.... u get my point (not that his dialect is bad .. its just not what I'm learning)).
So now I come to Italy ... and I keep saying Nei Takk to people ... how on earth they would know what I am saying .... I'm not even saying it in English!! hahahah ... So that is how my entire trip went ... Nei .. I mean No Grazi .. or Ja .. I mean Si Grazi.
Language confused, Language dyslexia Call it what ever you want ... i was a confused little kitten ...
But it was fun, and I am even more determined now to learn this language.

I start my first introduction to the work place soon and I'm excited to see what I do. I will be working in a kindergarden. The best place really to learn a language, since the kids INSIST upon talking to you and they will ONLY talk to you in Norwegian and not kick into English if you don't understand.

Let's see how fast I learn this language now!! :)