Language Barriers

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Hello! Today I had the honor of meeting some students from Ecuador and Nicaragua. I've taken Spanish for a very long time but there have seldom been times where I actually spoke to a native Spanish speaker. We were placed in groups of four to five people and one native Ecuadorian or Nicaraguan would talk to us. It was really exciting to talk to them even with that language barrier. It was frustrating because I wanted to ask so many things but didn't know how to phrase them in Spanish. There were awkward gaps when my group ran out of questions.
Maybe after the age of four or five, I've never faced the challenge of a serious language barrier. When I was three I absolutely hated the English language and everything to do with English. I was fortunate enough to have parents who cared about my ability to speak Korean and I've never really had that much trouble communicating what I mean over seas. Especially now, there is no language barrier. I felt encouraged to continue learning Spanish and trying to improve my Spanish.
Language barriers are awful! I hate them. I wish we had a universal language because everyone has a story worth sharing and it'd be so cool for the whole world to be able to understand. English is sort of becoming a universal language. Even though I do live in America, I think English is a good choice as of now because so many other countries are actively learning it. If we were to switch to Spanish for example, Asian countries would all have to start at level 0. If we were to switch to Chinese, people of all continents besides Asia would have to start at level 0. I don't know how the world will change but English is a good choice for the present. My friend wants to become a translator and I think that's a very cool job to pursue. She'd be linking the whole wide world together. Most jobs are useful but people refuse to see them in positive light. Everyone needs a little bit of positivity.
One of my friends also found my blog... haha. I don't know what to think about this. She may be reading.