How many English words do you know now compared to, say, 15 years ago? A fair few more I’ll bet. Some of these have the same meaning as other words you already know, some of them mean new things.
But you’ve managed to learn, retain, and use them.
In different situations you observe different sets of rules for using English. Your grammar may even change somewhat, your choice of words, the ordering of them, the pronunciation of them.
Do you speak to your mother the same way you speak to your best friend, your boss, when in a job interview, to a police officer, to an attractive member of the opposite sex, when writing a letter, a blog post, a tweet?
This example might be overly simplified, but it does serve to illustrate that you already have the basic skill set you need to learn Spanish, and to learn to speak Spanish fluently even more. All you’re doing is applying this skill to a larger and more unusual (to you) set of vocabulary and grammar.
Just a thought…
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