Anoreth could read Spanish when she was in Panama, but couldn’t understand the people talking.
The dialects are what I had problems with because in reading Spanish, there are no dialects to listen to. Lots of Latin American countries use Spanish, but the people have a hard time if they go to Spain, and even certain areas of Spain are different than others.
Kinda like the South here differing so much from New England, or from the Upper Midwest.
Our Spanish teacher was a priest who had studied in Spain and he told us on the first day of class, in English, that it was the only time he would speak English, and that if we got caught passing notes, the notes had better be in Spanish or we would get an hour Detention.
It was almost the Second Semester before anyone dared to pass a note! LOL!