Spanish
Spanish Video 1
So, apparently, through the nervousness, and the slipping of the tongue, Barg and I passed. I felt like the conversation went by pretty smoothly, but the occasional slip of a tongue disrupted the flow. I think we covered basic conversation, but left out some of the more complicated speak. Maybe it was short or maybe time flies by when you're having fun. Whatever the case, I felt like we did pretty good for 1.5 weeks of Spanish.
Spanish Video 2
My first thoughts about this class were that I was going to be super amazing at Spanish. I was pretty good at English and all of it’s tricks so how hard could it be to learn our neighboring language? Answer: Hard. From 1-10, my enthusiasm for Spanish is a solid 8.95643. I don’t jump up and down on the way there, but I try to speak it as much as possible. I’m looking forward to learning words in the dictionary, so I can piece together foreign sentences. I certainly learned more content and therefore had a longer conversation. However, I need to work on the flow of conversation, carrying a more casual, fluid conversation. I think I can see myself speaking spanish easier if I knew basic words, so that I could fill in the holes in my sentences and eventually piece the words together to make my own sentences and questions.
Spanish Video 3
I chose to work with Bargman because I thought we could have a pretty smooth conversation that wasn’t about something boring. We said it over and over, eventually taking away the script. Something very helpful was to understand what we were saying and thinking of a response, which also happens to be your line. Now, I feel pretty good with conversations. Not nearly enough to have a talk with a stranger, but enough to scrape my way. Compared to the first day, I most definitely feel better about conversations. Mostly because I knew nothing. I feel pretty confident with verb conjugations. It seems straightforward (except i’s) and makes the Spanish sound more like Spanish. Jeez, I hope I can hold up with all of the script my partner and I made. But, my main goal is to get down pronunciation so I don’t sound like an idiot. Well, my partner is better at Spanish than I am, but I’m pretty good at verb conjugations.
Final. 2. Spanish. Videos. With. Reflections.
This year, the unlikely hero, Google Translate has helped me with the base words of Spanish, filling in the empty, desperate spaces in my conversations. This tool could supply me twice the content in a dictionary millions of times faster. I need all the motivation I can get or at least confirmation I don't sound like an idiot, and my partner, David really helped supply that hope. He already knew how to speak Spanish, so he was a great partner (and translator). My goal is that eventually, I'll embarrass myself enough in these conversations so, that eventually, I'll get conjugation down, or pronunciation for that matter. By the end of High School, I hope to have a good grasp of the Spanish language, and have a smooth conversation. I'm not sure I could be defined as "Spanish Speaking" in the beginning of the class, so now, by relativity, I'm the best at Spanish. Speaking seriously though, I feel that I have greatly improved in the notion of speaking Spanish, in all manners of the term. I still would imagine a conversation with a Spanish speaker would be awkward, but I do believe that help from cognates and of course, what I've learned in this class, would make it possible to convey basic information and I hope that the future Spanish knowledge I gain will help me in conveying more than my name, or my favorite food. I would like to discuss my personal interests in Spanish (varies per person), as a conversation subject. This would make it easier to talk about because rather than having a posed conversation, you could answer directly from your mind rather than thinking of a basic, preset answer. Why did you choose your partner, or choose to work with me for the final exam?I haven't seen any TV shows or movies that were in Spanish, but due to the nature of my iTunes library, I do have a multitude of Spanish music, with the lyrics being in Spanish, and actually some, switching from english to Spanish, to develop a correlation between the two.Outside of the classroom, I mainly researched Vocab. words in DuoLingo and Google Translate. My primary conversations were with my mom and older brother. These, were coincidently mainly around the time of finals and midterms. No relation there ... With the articles we read in class, the basic language, again assisted by cognates, was easier to understand, as we could interpret the sentences fully and could understand the message behind them. This was pretty easy too, because in a place like politics, words like "Muy Mal" and "Mejor" were commonplace.
The main difference between the first video and this one was mainly that we got to talk about something we liked to talk about. (Spaceships). This made the conversation a bit easier, as I mentioned before with being able to answer directly, and gave it a personal touch. Actually, you can see the difference in expression, and from a behind the scenes perspective, I can tell you that the second video was the only one done on the first try. (I certainly hope that wasn't obvious.) Anyhow, the main point was the difference between talking about a thing and talking about a passion, and how that could easily reflect on the quality of your speaking.