Hola
I went to my first Spanish class tonight. We learned the alphabet, how to count to 20, and how to ask for/give out personal info. At first I wondered at learning how to ask for/give out a phone number in our first lesson (international dating?), then realized that it was an excuse to practice saying numbers. I must have seemed a little nuts riding home on my bike muttering letters and numbers in Spanish.
Yay, though, for being able to say:
Me llamo Kathryn. Vivo en la calle Lubbock veintecuatro en Norwich. Soy de America.
The above involved ample cheating from my notes of course . . .
(Steph and Krystal, feel free to correct me.)
The teacher is actually Spanish, nice, fun, and seems to have a good feeling for pacing (fast enough to push, not so fast you give up). We do a lot of partner practice and group interaction, which I find really helpful.
Wednesday I go back to Capoeira and the necessary pain that creates. Thursday is a free dinner with my work-mates due to reaching goal back in December. So a nicely full week.
On a totally different note, Mom and Rob responded to my "game". Here's what we have:
"There was no sail,
no cloud to show the mighty world in scale,
so sky and ocean, by my gaze defined,
were drawn within the compass of my mind
under a temperate sun."
- From "Peace" by Amy Witting
to
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. - Kahlil Gibran
to
Carl Rogers:
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Any responses to Rogers?
Adiós. ( :
Yay, though, for being able to say:
Me llamo Kathryn. Vivo en la calle Lubbock veintecuatro en Norwich. Soy de America.
The above involved ample cheating from my notes of course . . .
(Steph and Krystal, feel free to correct me.)
The teacher is actually Spanish, nice, fun, and seems to have a good feeling for pacing (fast enough to push, not so fast you give up). We do a lot of partner practice and group interaction, which I find really helpful.
Wednesday I go back to Capoeira and the necessary pain that creates. Thursday is a free dinner with my work-mates due to reaching goal back in December. So a nicely full week.
On a totally different note, Mom and Rob responded to my "game". Here's what we have:
"There was no sail,
no cloud to show the mighty world in scale,
so sky and ocean, by my gaze defined,
were drawn within the compass of my mind
under a temperate sun."
- From "Peace" by Amy Witting
to
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. - Kahlil Gibran
to
Carl Rogers:
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Any responses to Rogers?
Adiós. ( :