It's all Greek(ish) to me!

[waitforsuperman]

Who: Alfred and Emi
When:  September 7th
Where: LU's library
What: Alfred is good at many things. One thing he is not good at is Spanish and his angry tutor is more than pleased to remind him of this fact.

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[salylimon]

Emi was going to kill Alfred.

She had work at four that very same day and these tutoring sessions, especially the first tutoring session, were not supposed to last longer than one hour. Granted, she was fine with staying a few minutes longer or even scheduling an extra session later on in the week if the student needed it. However, again, the university wasn't more than a week in so the workload for Spanish I shouldn't have been all that heavy - even for a non-native Speaker such as the blond idiota in font of her.

"Alfred," Emi started slowly, rubbing her temples. "Compared to Spanish, English makes less sense if you really bothered to study it," she finished dryly as she pushed a blank sheet of paper towards him.

"And, really, from what I was told, your class should really only be focusing on the alphabet and simple, elementary level vocabulary." Seriously, how hard was it to understand that gato meant cat and that amarillo meant yellow? "You really won't get too deep into grammar until Spanish II, so I really don't know why

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Picking up the pen and letting out a long sigh starting to dutifully scribble out the letters, saying them quietly as he went, feeling like a child. He got most of them, the Ñ giving him a little trouble and he accidentally added a ü but besides that he managed to achieve most of them.

That was mostly because Emi had spent the first hour of their lesson making him repeat them a thousand times over. Now there just the dull rhythm in his head. He shoved the paper back at her. "Theeeeeeeeeeeeere," he groaned, flailing on the table, looking like a noodle, "Doneee."

His blue eyes peeked up from his arms. "So?"

[salylimon]

Scanning the paper, Emi crossed off the 'ü' with a raised eyebrow before nodding towards the blond. "You got it," she muttered before she propped her chin on top of her palm. Eying the blond, and wondering if whether or not it was a good idea to even attempt what she was considering, Emi sighed.

"Right, so, quick practice with greeting someone formally and introducing yourself in Spanish and then we're done for the day."

Pausing, Emi straightened slightly as she offered Alfred a small (and hopefully not strained) smile. "Hola, me llamo Emiliana Guadalupe de León. ¿Cómo se llama usted?"

(OOC: ffff- here's some help if you need it, bb~)

[waitforsuperman]

Alfred hated oral because when he spoke Spanish... it sounded like it was German or something. He just couldn't get that accent down but if it meant getting out of here, he would talk all the Spanerman Emi wanted.

His mind took a moment to dissect what she has sad before he opened his mouth, frowning, the expression a little dopey. "M-Me llamo Alfred," he said, face scrunching a little as he tried to remember, "Mucho gusto en conocer-...le?"