Ok… I haven’t been immersing myself in Castellano 100%…. I still write this in English for example, and I write e-mails and letters to my American friends in English. I’m also currently caught up in a fantasy novel that just so happens to be written in English. I know English. Pretty darn well. It’s my mother toung, and the vast majority of the millions and millions of words that have passed my lips have been in English.

Why then do I now have trouble remembering words? Yesterday I couldn’t remember conveyer belt (even just now it took quite a bit of brain power to remember). The day before I couldn’t remember beret…. that one took me a good 17 hours to figure out. 

I don’t know the Castellano equivalent of these words, but I can’t look them up in a dictionary if I don’t know the word in English first. Le sigh…. All the problems that arise from communicating in different languages.