u/Harvard7643

Struggling with honing in on a dialect

So, I’m currently at a B2 level of Spanish and very fluent conversationally with the vocabulary I know.

My issue is, I don’t practice/study as much as I should and I do feel myself starting to make a few more careless mistakes and forgetting vocabulary that I was easily able to use before. I want to get a tutor to practice with on a frequent basis but the way my brain works is I have to learn something a very specific way and then branch out from there.

I keep getting stuck on what dialect should I hone in on when I know that shouldn’t be an issue but it is.. I studied abroad in Chile and picked up all their modismos/jerga and very few people understand me in the United States. I’m currently in Chicago where it’s a lot of Mexicans and Venezuelans that I come across but I’m moving to Miami soon.

Would you keep going with the Chilean dialect, or given I only go back there once a year (to see friends and host family that I text with like once a month) focus on learning a different countries dialect with a tutor from that country)

I know I’m making this more difficult than it needs to be but I’m super ADHD and this is the only way I can learn lol

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u/Harvard7643 — 18 hours ago