No Habla Espanõl
>> Thursday, January 24, 2008
I remember my 9th grade Spanish class. It was awful. I’m not even sure our teacher had ever been to a Spanish speaking country. She was dull and I dreaded her class.
Sadly, I really wanted to learn Spanish. Well, really I wanted to learn French but it wasn’t offered in my small-town school, so I settled. And learned nothing.
Even more disturbing is that I believe I have learned more espanõl from Dora and Diego than I learned in a year of Spanish 1.
I do, however, expect my daughters to learn a foreign language and, living in the US, I think Spanish is probably a good first choice. Of course I hope to learn some, too. I could probably even keep up if I used an online program like eLanguageSchool.net. Their website is really easy to navigate and offers “guests” to try the program before investing.
And I see that they also offer French…
3 comments:
I'd like to see about that Rosetta Stone software. I'd like to know what the Mexican illegals at the WalMart are really saying.
jarod
hee, hee, you're funny! Sadly though, this half mexican isn't much better off. okay, well I do know a fair amount however i didn't do so well in the educational setting and settled for sign language instead. I went from fluent to flunking... how's that possible?
And Jarod, becuase you would never guess I'm half mexican, I do understand what those folks are saying at walmart :) I even translated for a couple the other day and they were quite surprised by this pasty white girl!
My son could count to five in spanish before he could in english thanks to Dora :)
Now that he is in grade 1 he takes french * all through grade school and a few credits in highschool* anyways.. according to him his mom and dad must have learned a different french because WE'RE not saying the word right! hahah.
And tonight when I was testing him on his spelling and asked him to spell " Cat" he says which cat? I said there is only ONE cat Connor spell "CAT" he goes no mommy there's cat and there's also the number quatre! cheeky little monkey!
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