November 19, 2006 1:28 pm
He’s Going In or El Está Entrando
Posted by Will under education
Above in my hands I hold a book I’ve had in my possession for more than seven years. Scanning my bookshelf a few days ago for something new to read — in English— I spied it jammed in between a biography of Theodore Roosevelt and a book of poetry and essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson and pulled it down, immediately deciding that it was high time to get the low down on giving myself some Spanish-speaking ability.
I begin tomorrow. At least an hour a day with a goal of writing a full post in Spanish on or before February 20, 2007.
November 19th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Hey, that’s cool. You know what you might consider in order to accelerate the process? Take Spanish at PCC. I am doing that now, and my skills are pretty decent. I mean I am doing it as part of my academic program(I have to basically be conversational by summer). But good class, and cheap I might add.
November 20th, 2006 at 11:29 am
I was adding Spanish to my list of things to do next year!
I figured I could do a challenge like NaNoWriMo for language immersion of something. I know quite a bit of Spanish already (from high school) but most of the stuff still in my brain is just vocabulary and not the verbs and of course past tense.
Maybe we should have a “fiesta de queso y vino (y dulces)” at some point and all speak Spanish.
November 21st, 2006 at 12:51 pm
“Maybe we should have a “fiesta de queso y vino (y dulces)” at some point and all speak Spanish.”
Or we can go to El Chubasco, the Panamerican Club or any other place with a bunch of cowboy hats, belt buckles and snakeskin boots…