What is the hardest grammatical aspect of Spanish to learn?
For me, the imperfect vs. preterite issue was the worst followed closely by the subjunctive. Fortunately, 90% of the time it’s obvious which tense or mood you should use. But you’ll likely spend months or even years fighting with the other 10%. Another hard thing is that Spanish is such a fast language: people from Peru to Mexico to Andaluca tend to speak very quickly and chain adjacent words together in speech. It will take you a LOT of practice before you are able to understand every word. In the meantime, you will develop a talent for picking out key words and stringing them together to get a broad overview of what is said. In time, your need to do this will diminish and finally disappear, but don’t be alarmed if you finish your studies confident in your abilities and then get to a small fishing village in Venezuela and can only understand about half of what you hear. Each accent is different and they all use different slang. In my opinion, the Columbian accent is the easiest to und
