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One day, the clouds just opened up…

April 24, 2010

… and poured full sentences of Castellano out of my mouth!  Full sentences!  Out of MY mouth! Like mute babies who all of a sudden start talking out of the blue, I started pulling words out of the air to build sensical phrases on the spot. Like a storm, it all just came raining down. [...]

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Riki, Shakira and the women of Sex and the City

April 21, 2010

After writing about my demoralizing weekend of not being able to communicate with the boy’s family, I’ve received lots of great advice on how I can speed up my uptake of Castellano.  Everything from more dinners out (great!), more local TV watching and tandem language partnering! I’ve decided that I’m going to look for the Spanish [...]

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Spanish: lesson 2

April 8, 2010

A few more of my favourite words: pesadilla (peh-sah-dee-shaa) Nightmare.  Really?!  What a beautiful word for nightmare. llover (show-vehr) This is the verb for rain.  Rain is a verb! yo lluevo. I rain. vos lloves. You rain. el llueve. It rains. nosotros llovemos. We rain. ellos lloven. They rain. cuchillo (cooch-eee-shoh) Knife.  This is very [...]

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It’s raining men, ahlehloooshaaa!

November 23, 2009

Hallelujah.  Is. My. New. Favourite. Word. Porque?! Porque! It is pronounced ahhlehloooshaaa here.  Can you believe it?!  Say it with me now: AHHHHHLEHHHHLOOOOOSHAAAAAA! Is that not the MOST FUN word ever?!  Ever?! Couple it with The Weather Girls’ “It’s Raining Men” and you’ve got yourself one of my most memorable moments from the weekend.  We were [...]

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Un lorito, los Powerpuff Girls y Español

November 16, 2009

The boy bought me some children’s books in Spanish last weekend. ”Picote, el lorito alegre” and “The Powerpuff Girls”! I’m delinquent in my attempts to translate them but the books are so cute that I had to post! And what the heck are The Powerpuff Girls anyway?! We didn’t have crazy big-eyed girl heroines like this when I was [...]

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Fear and loathing in language learning

November 10, 2009

Vivi, my Spanish teacher, told me off yesterday.  She’d been asking around in the office to see if I’ve been practicing my Spanish with people.  And no, I have not.  Everyone here is so friendly and can speak English so well, so there is no need for me to talk in Spanish!  And I am [...]

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Inovidable

November 7, 2009

I heard this on the radio during dinner last night. Love it and thought I’d share. There is something so beautiful about Spanish sung. I can hardly understand the words but this song makes me so happy. =)

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Aventuras en espanol

November 3, 2009

Buen dia.  Este es me intento de comunicarse en espanol.  Es difficil porque estoy impaciente.  Muy impaciente!!!  Pero es un idioma hermosa! Eh, I give up!  I need to gush and gushing with vocabulary as incomplete as this is so frustrating!  I LOVE SPANISH.  It is so beautiful and rhythmic and fun fun fun to [...]

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My Spanish tutor broke up with me

May 12, 2009

He said that it’s him. Not me. So why do I feel so hurt? Maybe it’s because I’m paying this man to teach me Spanish and HE is the one rejecting ME! Is that even allowed?! When I first read his email – that it’s not working for him, that my schedule isn’t balanced between [...]

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