Nice one m8, keep at it................ in theory you should pick it up easy if you have such exposure (I she decides to speak Italian on a regular basis)

I have worked with a lot of eastern europeans over the last couple of years who have all good great english, and nearly all of them had absolutely NO English prior to arriving in the country

One Romanian guy (who was 33 before he came to London) said him and his mates used to pitch up in a quite(ish) pub every night and spin out their drinks and do nothing buy listen to peoples conversations and try and hold their own................ in a matter of months with that kind of level of exposure their English was VERY good

We get spoilt to a degree what with every other country taking on English.