"I want to speak Spanish: Quiero hablar español. In the past I have attempted to teach myself, attended evening classes. Neither was...

Happy New Year in German: "Gutes neues Jahr" is the proper way to say it. What people actually say, however, is “Guten Rutsch”...

When reading for gist, we do not need to understand every word of the text. Skipping past adjectives/adverbs is a good short-cut