Those of you who follow me on Facebook have had the (mis?)fortune of seeing my daily updates about what I learned (or did) each day during the Spanish course. Here’s the whole list in one place: Aprendo “vale” Aprendo “deberes” 😱 Aprendo las palabras para las frecuencias Aprendo localizaciones. (Y practico muchos verbos. 😰) Aprendo el futuro […]
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Spanish Language School – Week Four
Last week was my fourth and final week of Spanish classes. My class saw more change (a new professor and new students) but not a lot of new material. We spent the week practicing and reviewing the two past tenses we’d learned the previous weeks, which I found a bit frustrating. (The practice was very, […]
Spanish Language School – Week Three
Two new students this week, but otherwise it was business as usual. Week three covered: more past tense! additional practice with pretérito perfecto and the introduction of pretérito indefinido pronouns for direct and indirect objects new vocabulary: crimes, body parts, and animals (hmm… sounds like the setup for an episode of CSI) In comparison to […]
The Rain in Spain
It started raining heavily sometime during the night. I kept waking up during the night as I kept dreaming that the apartment was being flooded. (Note: my apartment has no notable risk of flooding.) The mere threat of rain tends to send granadinos into hiding, so my walks to and from class were very quiet […]
Spanish Language School – Week Two
By some miracle, my class stayed exactly the same this week: we had all of the same students, same teachers, same classroom. (This is not typical; all of us are in the school for varying time lengths with different start dates so classes typically see at some change each week.) Next week we won’t be […]
Adventure Even in the Mundane
Today I moved out of the homestay and into a private apartment in the Albaicín neighborhood of Granada. I’m a stone’s throw away from the San Miguel Alto view point, which has spectacular views of the city and mountains. The move from the homestay where 2 meals per day were cooked for me to a […]
Spanish Language School – Week One
Three and a half weeks and only one blog post so far… Off to a slow start, but it should be a little easier to write from here on out! On Monday I started taking Spanish classes at Escuela Delengua in Granada, Spain. I have about 3 hours of instruction per day (broken up into […]