This is how I feel about the Spanish language right now. There is a wall and steel bars keeping me from getting in. I don't understand nearly as much as I would like. At a good moment, I probably only understand about 50% of what people are saying. I understand more when it is an American speaking Spanish. But, when I listen to the Spaniards, I get really frustrated because I can't understand very much through their accents. Frustration is even a bit of an understatement. By the end of the day, my brain is so overloaded with new words, and sounds, that it can't handle anything else. So, another interpretation of this picture, is how my brain is at the end of the day. Nothing else can get in.