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You moved to Spain. You hear Spanish on the metro, at the panadería, from your neighbors arguing about football. And yet six months in, you're still nodding along in conversations and ordering 'lo mismo' because you didn't catch what your friend just ordered.This is the strange paradox of learning a language by immersion: you're surrounded by it, but surrounded isn't the same as fluent. Most language courses are built for someone learning from scratch in a classroom thousands of miles away — not for someone who already hears 'vale,' 'venga,' and '¿qué tal?' fifty times a day but still can't...