Having been raised monolingual, I know what it is like to learn a second language as an adult. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be, and although I am quite fluent, I don’t consider myself perfectly bilingual. Teaching English to children for many years, I saw firsthand how easy it was for them to pick up the language at such a young age, and how natural it was. I thought it would be the same for me when I decided to learn, but I was wrong. For this reason, I am doing my best to b...