Made a huge mistake joining a conversation class
So at the start of the new year, I decided to join an in person conversation class. Thought that italki was getting a bit too monotonous (though still fun) and I wanted to see how an in person class would feel like. So I joined an intermediate level class specifically for conversations.
Turns out that I made a huge mistake.
Not to brag but I find my level to be way above every one else's in my class. My class is full of people that have terrible pronunciation. Like they're literally applying the sounds of English to Spanish and it's hard to even understand them. The professor asks us to read out the conversation task out loud and after the first few tries, she gave up and now just says "u/AngryGooseMan would you like to read this assignment out loud?". Every time.
And then we pair up to talk through the assignment and it's honestly a struggle to keep my attention because while I don't think I speak perfect Spanish, I definitely don't struggle with even basic vocabulary or conjugations. I feel like I'm not really learning much because none of the partners are good. There was this one French girl who is quite good because she had an advantage with a similar language but she switched to a different timing and so I am stuck. All of my classmates ask me how I got so good but I honestly don't think I have a lot of speaking practice (65 hours on italki)
In the future I might join something like Mexitalk or HandySpanish but I'm starting to have second thoughts after this experience.