I went to visit my son last spring, he lives just south of Nashville. Folks are friendlier than in Seattle it seems. I’ve been watching videos on how to pronounce town names but that will take awhile. Although got the Indian names around Washington state figured out soon enough.
Two days ago I was crossing the 520 bridge on a beautiful clear day over Lake Washington with Mount Rainier in the background. Yep it’s pretty. Although most years it isn’t until July 5th that you can count on long stretches of clear skies. But rural Tennessee is pretty too. Pros and cons with every place. I’d like to think I’m fairly adaptable.
That must have been really difficult moving to a new country and language Cronos. Good for you!
difficult, but worth it.
I had some advantages - I am Catholic (so fit in with the culture), and I knew other languages before moving to Poland - beside English, I got fascinated first with French, then Latin, then Sanskrit (very very poor) and then when learning basic German I fell down the rabbit hole of Indo-european language similarities and was amazed at how I could connect words and phrases from Marathi to Farsi to Italian, to English — and then I started learning Polski.......
you start learning Polski and you forget German and sneer at the irregularities of French.
Polish is a very precise language - like Latin or Sanskrit (the latter being if anything MORE precise), but very rewarding to learn.
The other advantage is that I am a history nut and Poland has a lot of it, so it is good to be able to know more about Wladyslaw lokietek than an ordinary Pole.
but back to you -— you need to ‘immerse’ - and it can be frustrating as you don’t know the basic stuff that people who grew up “there” know.