My Experience with Spanish

I took Spanish starting in middle school (not much), through high school (to AP level; I got a 5!), and then passively since. I've acquired and gone through a couple of books on Spanish grammar. I've read some books in Spanish. There are some people in my life I can talk Spanish with, but they all speak English very well so I don't practice too much, though maybe in 2020 that will change. Most of the Spanish I know is of Mexican/Latin American flavor as I live in California.

I don't typically feel too comfortable using Spanish with people that speak English well because English already serves the role as a "lingua franca" and I don't feel any particular affinity to Hispanic cultures I've encountered.

Technology

Tech support for Spanish is overall pretty good because Spanish is a widely used language that uses the Latin alphabet. Some things are suboptimal, like keyboard layouts—they are pretty much all based on QWERTY, with lots of hard to reach buttons in silly places (also, rarely used letters like k are in easy to reach places). Uso emacs para teclar en español.

Thus tech in Spanish is largely derivative of Anglo-designed tech, and usually a little bit worse. Expect ugly tildes/accent marks (i.e. diacritics), weirdo quote marks all over the place,