My friend in college, Gina, is fascinated by all the ways of communication. For my last and final post I wanted her to share with my classmates and everyone who follows my blog a little bit about herself. Gina is a friend I met at the beach when I was a kid and we go to the [...]
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Feliz Navidad!
Across the globe people celebrate Christmas in many different ways. Each and every country, and individual family, have different traditions for the holiday. In Germany, children in the family try and find the pickle in Christmas tree to obtain an extra present. In Ireland, children leave their shoes by their beds to receive [...]
Marcelo’s Blog- EFEMÉRIDES DEL FÚTBOL ARGENTINO
El blog de Marcelo es buenisimo! Futbol de Argentina es bueno. Video de Marcelo es interestante.
Marcelo commented on a post on my blog and left his blog name so I decided to go check it out. It turns out his blog is awesome!! It has so many highlights, pictures, videos, and written descriptions about the [...]
Uncle Will’s Pancake House en LBI
Me gusta Uncle Will’s Pancake House. Voy a Uncle Will’s para desayuno. Venden huevos, tocino, los cereales, tostado, y los panqueques. Tienen el chocolate ,auga, el jugo de naranja, el cafe y leche tomar. El menú es muy grande. Aceptan tarjetas de crédito. Muy bueno restarante comer el desayuno en LBI.
Uncle Will’s is my favorite [...]
Ser o Estar
One thing that I need a lot of help on in this class is knowing when to use ser versus estar. Because they are VERY similar I often mix them up. I realize that I really need to master how to use both of these verbs. To assist me in learning when to use ser [...]
La Vida de Aroya
La Navidad y el Año Nuevo
El blog de Aroya es muy interesante. Tiene los fotos de España en Navidad y Año Nuevo. La Navidad en España se celebra muy grande. Es un evento celebrado con familias y amigos. Tienen una fiesta. Reciben regalos.
The blog of Aroya shows all the celebration that goes into Christmas and [...]
Hablo con Andrea
Last year, there was a girl named Andrea in my Interior Design Class. Partners were assigned from are teacher, and she ended up being my partner for the whole semester. She had a little bit of an accent, but I never really thought a lot of it. Yesterday, when we collaborated with the ESL Biology [...]
E-Mail con Maria de Argentina
I got the great opportunity to e-mail with one of the students coming to our school this year as part of the Argentina exchange program, Maria. She is a very nice girl and I can’t wait to meet her in person! She seems a lot like me. I want to continue exchanging e-mails with her [...]
Conversation with Nestor
Nestor is a really nice guy! I enjoy talking to him so much. I felt like this was the first time that I actually had an intelligent conversation with someone in Spanish. We didn’t just talk about how old we were and ask generic questions, but we talked about things that actually mattered to me. [...]
Changing and Working Towards My Goals
After looking at and reassessing my personal goals I came to the conclusion that I’m very content with the goals I chose at the beginning of the semester. I really looked hard and contemplated on changing my long term goal, but in the end I decided it was perfect for me.
I already accomplished my short [...]
Conversation with Magnus
This is the Magnus favorite book “El Alchimista”
I talked to Magnus through Skype. He explained to me many things. We instantly made a connection through reading and movies and talked about that for some time. After this chat conversation I had another chat conversation with him on Sunday night where we discussed our interests even [...]
Oprah Winfrey
No quiero que Oprah vaya! Me gusta la programa de television de Oprah. Es muy bueno y interestante. Oprah es intellegente y divertida. Ella dinero a organizaciones de caridad. El blog de dentrotele tiene mucho que decir sobre Oprah.
http://www.dentrotele.com/2009/11/25/oprah-winfrey-produce-una-escandalosa-serie-para-hbo/#comment-44777
Ever since I was a little kid, I grew up watching the Oprah Show with my [...]
La comida rápida para niños, sin regalos
No me gusta comida rápida. Es muy mal. Burger King y McDonalds son muy mal para tu.
http://www.vitonica.com/alimentos/la-comida-rapida-para-ninos-sin-regalos
In the article I found in Vitonica’s blog it talks about how a lot of children in Spain are increasingly becoming obese. This interested me because I’ve always had a curiosity about how what people affect them. This blog [...]
Lady Gaga y Beyoncé
Me gusta la musica de hip hop. Beyoncé y Lady Gaga cantan muy bueno. Me gusta canción de “Telephono.” El blog de Reformusic es muy bueno.
http://www.reformusic.com.mx/?p=985
Beyonce is a truly remarkable person. Not only is she a powerhouse on stage, but it is what she does off the stage that truly impresses people. She is a [...]
Fútbol Argentino
Me gusta el equipo de Argentino. Argentino is mucho bueno. En el blog de fútbol, habla sobre los momentos de Argentino. El nombre de el blog post es Efemérides del Fútbol Argentino. Pienso que al fútbol de Argentino es muy interesante.
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8433707537284441391&postID=5893210505462336542
In the blog, I found many interesting facts about Argentinean soccer. I learned about the [...]
Wild Bull Chase
My amazing English teacher was discussing her trip to Spain the other day in class and she told us something very interesting. When she went to Spain that week, they were having their annual “bull chase”. I thought this was the craziest thing I had ever heard! Who would chase bulls and get severely injured [...]
Spongebob SquarePants in Spanish
Who thought that something as simple as the cartoon Spongebob Squarepants could help me learn Spanish? Spanish is everywhere! Ever since I was a little kid, I have always loved cartoons. I found them fun and easy to understand. The thought came across my mind the other day, “Do spanish-speakers watch cartoons?” I went on [...]
Discovering Peru
After researching many Spanish-speaking places, I came across Peru. I was instantly entranced by its beauty. It amazing history and landforms caught my attention. The eastern part of Peru experiences a very tropical climate and is home to many different species of animals. The largest city in Peru is Lima. Lima looks like an amazing [...]
School Subjects Voicethread
The new Voicethread Project we are doing is very helpful when learning new things and broadening our Spanish vocabulary. My voicethread focuses on the different classes we take in school. Each slide shows a picture of one of the classes along with a voice comment by me on how to saw each word in Spanish. [...]
Exploring Spanish Music with Beyonce
This weekend as I was looking songs up on youtube, I came across a Beyonce video in Spanish. Beyonce is such an amazing artist and role model. When I came across her video, I watched it a million times. I did some background research and found out that she learned Spanish at a young age. [...]
Week Three-Working With Voicethread
This week in class we did projects on voicethread.com. I absolutely loved this project. We had to create slides of pictures of ourselves, family, and friends. This project allowed me to experience learning how to speak and pronounce Spanish in a creative way. It really forced me to look up how things were said and [...]
Spanish Character Song
Here is my Spanish song. It is a song about all the character words of our school and words that you should just live by. It’s about respect, responsibility, peace, integrity, courage, tolerance, caring, patience, trustworthiness, fairness, citizenship, and last but not least. These very important characteristics and values are incorporated into a Spanish song. [...]
Finding Native Speakers on Soziety
This week I started achieving my goals by creating a Diigo, Soziety, and Epals account so I could start connecting with people there. Through Soziety I connected with one woman from Spain. We chatted on Skype and she corrected my Spanish and told me all about her culture and life in Spain. I think if I [...]
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