Spanish Lessons!

During on of our snow days, while trapped inside, I decided to try to make use of my time. My brother Blake was home from college that day visiting the family. I thought of a great idea. I went and got my Spanish folder and notebook and offered to teach him a little Spanish since he never took it in high school. I started off with our very first vocab list from all the way back in Spanish 1. He surprisingly learned something. I then taught him how to conjugate verbs properly. This was a little difficult for him. But he did eventually write a whole sentence all by himself. Teaching someone else something really helps you learn the concept yourself. After teaching him that Spanish I felt like I was way more comfortable with it.

Hugo Sanchez

Soccer is the dominated sport of Mexico. Everywhere you go you will see a soccer ball. But one of the greatest soccer players came from Mexico. A man named Hugo Sanchez was born to play soccer from day one. He grew up and became one of Mexicos greatest soccer players of all time. He was born in Mexico City and became a legend. He won 5 consecutive league titles and scored 46 goals with the Mexico National Team. He was known for doing backflips after scoring a goal. He is now done playing soccer but did coach for the National Team.

Just Dance 3!

When I first got Just Dance 3 for Christmas, I realized that there was a Spanish song on it. I try to pick out what they are saying but it is kind of difficult to dance and attempt to translate at the same time. This dance is pretty fun because you get to experience the way that the Spanish people dance and express themselves. It's also fun to see how fast they can sing. :)

one time when i was on facebook i was playing a game and you could talk to people on it. There was some guy n that was talking spanish and i got a little of what he was saying but then i got lost after a while because he was saying stuff i didn't know and i tried to tell him that i didn't understand what he was saying but i don't think he could understand me because i think i spelled it wrong.

Carlos O Kellys

Last weekend I went to Carlos O Kellys. That is a Spanish restaurant. I like it a lot even though it isnt very authentic. The last time I went there i got enchiladas with cheese. It was so good. Before your meal they give you chips and salsa. I guess thats what a lot of people in Mexico eat. Their food is so good. It isnt my favorite mexican restaurant but it is still very tasty and i enjoy going there. :)

Clue!

A few weeks ago I was babtsitting my brother. He wanted to play a game and he came up with Clue. I havnt played clue in a long time so I wasn't sure about the rules. I told Lucas that the only instructions that i could find were the Spanish ones. I read the Spanish ones out loud to him and he asked me what they meant. I told him what I could understand from that. I am always teaching Lucas words in Spanish!

Spanish Book!

The other day I went to Hopkinton to visit my grandparents. My grandma had a book sitting on the table that she said came out of the cereal box. I can't remember the name of it but it was in spanish. There was also the English translation. My brother wanted me to read it to him so I read the Spanish part without looking at the English translation and tried to tell him what it meant. Some of the animals I didn't know but a lot of them were cognates. I also taught my brother some Spanish!

Modern Warfare 2

Just the other day I was playing an online game known as Call of Duty Modern Warfare II. It is an extremely fun game where you run around with new guns and talk to people on your own team. No one was talking, but then I heard a fast muffled voice and immediately detected it as being Spanish. Though the sound quality was poor I realized the advantage I now have when playing with Spanish speaking kids.

Spanish at Home

Now that I know more Spanish I try to speak it more often, especially at home. I started probably around the beginning of this year. I started saying "si" and small talk like that. And now I'm working on more sentences like "tengo hombre" and ''estoy consado" and larger sentences. I think it's funny because nobody else really knows what I'm saying, but it really makes my mom and dad angry especially when i answer "si" when she tells me something. I just say I'm practicing my Spanish!

On playstation network

So on playstation network you often encounter players from a diffrent country that speak a diffrent language. And when your searching for a game lobby to play in you'll almost always have those game lobbies where you dont know what there saying and then leave the game lobby to search for another one. One day i was hosting a party for my online friends and i to play zombies in and one of my friends invited his friend ruben. When he joined the party he was speaking in spanish and i was supprised how many words i could understand. I remember him asking for his madre then asking her if she could make him some food. when we were playing and when things weren't going hes way hed yell por que and when hed get really mad hed yell what i believe to be spanish swear words that i couldent understand. And ruben became like one of my favorite online friends.

Spanish on my shampoo bottle

I was in the shower last night and I decided to attempt reading the Spanish on my shampoo bottle. When I looked at the bottle of Biolage, my shampoo, there was an English translation and under it a Spanish translation. The English translation was Hydrating Shampoo-Continuous moisture for dry, stressed hair. The Spanish translation was Champu Hidratante-Hidratacion continua para cabello seco y estresado. I was surprised that I knew a whole sentence on a shampoo bottle. I knew enough Spanish to know what it was saying. Hidratacion is a cognate for hydration, continua is a cognate for continuous, para is for, cabello is hair, and estresado is a cognate for stressed. I compared both translations at the end to see if I was right. I was so happy that I could read something that last year, I wouldn't have been able to read.

Spanish is Everywhere

We went to a hotel this past weekend and most of the workers at the hotel were spanish speaking. When we were just sitting in the room one of the workers came in and asked if she wanted us to clean her room, well the people we were with didn't understand what they asked so I kind of picked up on what she said and told them that she asked if we wanted her to clean up the room. It's amazing to me that spanish is everywhere we go whether we realize it or not and it's fun to know that we can use it and if we hear it we can put peices of it together and understand what they are trying to say. I love learning it too, its really fun!

Spanish Everywhere

Lately I've noticed Spanish everywhere. At the hotel I was in this weekend I read the do not disturb sign and it was in Spanish. The movie I watched had Spanish subtitles and it was a lot easier than I thought it'd be to match the words with what I heard. I see signs everywhere that are in English and Spanish. It is fun to see how much Spanish I know and I enjoy using it everyday.

IKEA

Last night my brother, mom, dad and aunt were in IKEA. I saw a poster with spanish on it and was extremely surprised that I could read it. I turned to Brett and started talking spanish. We kept talking back and forth and no one else could understand what we were saying. I was very surprised how much I could actually speak and understand. It was fun and very interesting at the same time.