Full credit to The Foreign Language Collective and Language acquisition memes for stimulus-impoverished teens pages for a good chunk of these.

Communicating with Spanish friends like

When asked to teach Spanish children about Columbus

When the kids start doing Spanish-style long division

Pan every day!! 

When everyone from your home town is married/ engaged/ has kids

When you hear about a random person who knows 5 languages and you’re still struggling with your first two

When you’re just about to give up on SLA….

But finally…

when you have a good conversation with someone in your target language and realize you’re exactly where you need to be <3