Wackyfish

My study of the Samoan language has only minimally progressed since training. My grammar is worse, much worse. But my vocabulary is broader.
For instance Today I learned
“Puta tele Pepelo” which translates loosely to Big fat liar. This is what you get folks when you learn most of your language from the gossip sessions with the sassy ladies at the coffee club.
I have marked one level of progress in that now I can tell were one word ends and another begins. Before it all sounded like a bunch of words run together. But now even if I don’t know what the words mean, I can now differentiate when one word begins and the next ends. So that is progress of some sort right.
I’m not sure if it is just FaaSamoa or all languages, but it seems that my ear has had to be trained to hear it. At first it all sounded mumbled and incoherent. Now I feel like I can at least hear it, so that is a good step in the right direction towards actually understanding it. And maybe someday actually speaking FaaSamoa with some sort of proficiency.