To many of you reading this and learning Spanish, you will have had the classic squinting eyes look.

I'm fairly confident in my ability now. I've been speaking for over a year and have done numerous interviews in this language, so when someone looks at me as if I had just told them I was planning to fly to the moon next week I get really cross.

It's all about those eyes, however, which look at you as if you are totally off your head. As if to say listen buddy, if you want to speak my language you need to go back to school.' It drives me mental.

But naturally that's not the only habit that I've come across since I arrived here all those months ago. If you miss hear something first time, the immediate assumption is that they need to translate it for you. I miss stuff in English first time, maybe a slight distraction or they said a word that was inaudible to the ear.

Instead of repeating, we then have to go through the whole procedure of the other person trying to speak English to you. Another frustration.

And with this story, perhaps the most annoying I've ever experienced, I had to leave the shop.

I was asked to fill out a form, your typical one with Name, Address, Date of Birth etc. There was one question that I didn't understand, so I asked the shop man What's this?'. Instead of explaining to me, he then went through the whole form in a terrible English. "you put name, here.... Your addaaasss here". I had to leave.