French can take a minute because it's like English where you have a gang of homophones and silent letters. It's also not that phonetic of a language.
If you put in an hour a day for Spanish, you'll be straight after a year or two. I say that because the most difficult part about it is memorizing the verb tenses, and figuring out how the different dialects butcher the language.
Fúcking Puerto Ricans and their slurred Spanish.
This reminds me when I was trying to speak Arabic with a Tunisian kid, we both looked at each other like scooby doo and switched to English. Alot of the North African version had slang and French mixed in. When the creolized/slang version comes into play it's like you have to translate 3 or 4 times in your head.
Kinda like Caribbean English, Pidgin West African English vs British/Australian vs Canadian English vs American English.
Funny story, I brought my old lady stateside to the midwest and she heard a white guy speaking like he was black from the hood. She looked at me and said "what kind of english accent is that" I said it's a white guy talking like he's from a black neighborhood on the west side of town.
but as soon as they hear someone they don't expect speaking their language you're like a brother to them
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