I took classes through HS but didn't keep in practice
@Floyd :
I also took "Spanish" as an elective in High School, hoping to be able to converse more just in case I needed to eventually....Only problem was, I wanted to learn conversational Spanish, the class actually ended up doing written Spanish....And then my Mexican/Hispanic friends in the class(who took the course as an EZ-A for them) were telling me that the "Spanish" that they were teaching was real "formal", only spoken by the "higher-class" people in Mexico....Oh hell no!....I wanted to learn HOOD Spanish and not to write a book either!....So........I used the class as a "Homework doing" and "catching up on sleep" class....It was only one semester....