To talk about how you personally perceive or evaluate something based on your own experience, you can use the verb resultar (to seem, to find to be, or to turn out).
When used this way, resultar works a lot like the verb gustar. You pair it with an indirect object pronoun (me, te, le, nos, les) to indicate who is having the impression.
| Does this neighborhood seem familiar to you? | ¿Te resulta familiar este vecindario? |
| The treatment here seems strange to me. | El trato aquí me resulta extraño. |
Expressing Culture Shock
This structure is extremely common when talking about culture shock or moving to a new country. You can use it to explain how new habits, environments, or ways of interacting strike you.
Notice how the verb form matches the thing you are evaluating. Because these examples evaluate singular nouns or actions, they all use the singular form resulta.
| The city noise seems overwhelming to us. | El ruido de la ciudad nos resulta abrumador. |
| That custom seems incomprehensible to them. | Esa costumbre les resulta incomprensible. |
You can even use an entire action (an infinitive verb phrase) as the thing that gives you an impression.
| Learning a new language seems more challenging to me than working. | Aprender un nuevo idioma me resulta más desafiante que trabajar. |