Speak Up! Three Ways I Overcame The Fear of Practicing My Spanish Conversation Skills as a Language Learner

In one of my high school Spanish classes, I had a teacher tell us, “there are two types of language learners in this world: one is really good at speaking the language, but is too shy to talk, and the other isn’t really that great at speaking, but will talk to anyone who is willing to have a conversation with them. Learning Spanish, I definitely fell into the former category…