¡Mucho ruido y pocas nueces!
Lo siento mucho pero es verdad.....
A pesar de que he terminado de leer Harry Potter libro dos (Harry Potter y la Camara Secreta) en español, y dos libros de Francisco Jiménez, Cajas de Carton y Senderos Fronterizos, sobre su niñez en California.
Y he comprado dos libros más de Amazon, Harry Potter y la Prisionero de Askaban y un libro más de Jiménez, Más allá de mí. Es bastante fácil de leer estes libros para niños en español, pero no es fácil de escribir o hablar.....
My really bad attempts at writing in Spanish, but I'm starting to write some reviews in English that may be of use to people other than me.
sábado, 2 de enero de 2016
lunes, 21 de diciembre de 2015
Los Quehaceres Para Estudiar Espanol
draft in English. oh, well, lets just keep it in English for now and post it....
Here are the things I will continue doing in the Spring to practice Spanish on my own.
1. Keep reading books: Harry Potter, Francisco Jimenez
2. Keep subscribing to and reading Spanish language Facebook pages. Can I group them in some way?
3. Keep watching movies. Eventually go back over some with Spanish/Spanish rather than Spanish/English subtitles.
4. Watch Spanish language craft/animal videos on Youtube.
5. Figure out what to do in Puerto Vallarta and Oaxaca City.
6. Keep marking Harry Potter and other study words on WordLang and Export 3 fields: Original, Translation, Example with Original inserted. Add to Flashcard Machine list and clean up formatting.
7. Keep adding to grammar notes on Flashcard Machine.
8. Actually study these things on computer or phone while waiting.
9. Help Ann MacCormick with whatever needs doing. YES!!
10. Collect more songs, learn how to sing a few.
11. Listen to the radio as much as you can stand. Try to find stations on the computer to listen to.
12. Find some online speaking venue?
13. Date a native speaker, ha ha.... (a patient native speaker)
14. Write art and other essays for this blog.
15. Weekly review of online Spanish language news, spoken and written.
16. Create some sort of grammar/vocabulary drills.
17. Start a "page" in this blog to list online Spanish language resources. Sort by type.
18. Find some Spanish language craft/fish/garden/nature blogs.
19. Use a Spanish language recipe and report my success here.
20. Guest bloggers?
21. Word of the Day from SpanishDictionary has good, brief sentence examples. Continue copying these on to Flashcard Machine and keep going back to previous months/years.
Here are the things I will continue doing in the Spring to practice Spanish on my own.
1. Keep reading books: Harry Potter, Francisco Jimenez
2. Keep subscribing to and reading Spanish language Facebook pages. Can I group them in some way?
3. Keep watching movies. Eventually go back over some with Spanish/Spanish rather than Spanish/English subtitles.
4. Watch Spanish language craft/animal videos on Youtube.
5. Figure out what to do in Puerto Vallarta and Oaxaca City.
6. Keep marking Harry Potter and other study words on WordLang and Export 3 fields: Original, Translation, Example with Original inserted. Add to Flashcard Machine list and clean up formatting.
7. Keep adding to grammar notes on Flashcard Machine.
8. Actually study these things on computer or phone while waiting.
9. Help Ann MacCormick with whatever needs doing. YES!!
10. Collect more songs, learn how to sing a few.
11. Listen to the radio as much as you can stand. Try to find stations on the computer to listen to.
12. Find some online speaking venue?
13. Date a native speaker, ha ha.... (a patient native speaker)
14. Write art and other essays for this blog.
15. Weekly review of online Spanish language news, spoken and written.
16. Create some sort of grammar/vocabulary drills.
17. Start a "page" in this blog to list online Spanish language resources. Sort by type.
18. Find some Spanish language craft/fish/garden/nature blogs.
19. Use a Spanish language recipe and report my success here.
20. Guest bloggers?
21. Word of the Day from SpanishDictionary has good, brief sentence examples. Continue copying these on to Flashcard Machine and keep going back to previous months/years.
En Boca Cerrada no Entran Moscas.
Eso/a es un/a de mis [Spanish sayings] favoritos/as. Cuando era en [high school] yo y mi mejor amiga [used to say this, whispering behind our hands] como viejitas [disapproving] despues de caminar cerca de grupos de estudientes ruidosos.
first draft. Note that there are things I think I know in Spanish that could be wrong also, but I wanted to write them down as I thought they were.
Now, what do I learn as I start to improve the sentence? I guessed there would be a word related to proverb but wasn't sure if it was only used in the biblical sense. But it looks like it can be defined as a "short, pithy instructive saying" and I think this fits the bill. BTW, I just discovered an engrossing and entertaining website, http://www.lexipedia.com/spanish/proverbio, while investigating this word. A true word lover's website!
So, we now have:
Eso es uno de mis proverbios favoritos. Cuando éramos en la escuela secundaria....
I looked up "high school" in Google Translate because I know the school system names are different in English and Spanish. I realized I wanted to say "we" rather than I, so I looked up the conjugation of "Ser" in Spanish Dictionary's verb conjugation page, http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugate/Ser.
yo y mi mejor amiga .....I looked this up in Google Translate just in case I had done something wrong with the little words....nope, it was fine.
"we would say", translated to diríamos in GT, but I didn't trust it so I went to Spanish Dictionary and looked up conjugations of Decir and believe that instead, GT was treating it as a conditional and it should be a habitual action, so decíamos is the word I actually want. Should I have known these conjugations already? Yes, based on what we covered in class, but I didn't feel at all secure about them so I looked them up anyway.
So, now we have:
Eso es uno de mis proverbios favoritos. Cuando éramos en la escuela secundaria, decíamos esto .... cuando caminando cerca do un grupo de estudiantes ruidosos.
I skipped a bit because I was thinking more productively about the last part more clearly than the next at the moment.
"Whispering, behind our hands". I gave up and used GT for this whole phrase, initially the second part because I wondered if there was some specific phrase for something you say behind your hand. If
there is, I didn't discover it that way. Anyway, susurrando detrás de nuestras manos.
como viejecitas desaprobandas ... Here I found GT really useful because I wanted to make vieja diminuative and viejitas wasn't correct. GT actually knew what I wanted when I typed in "little old lady". And it helped me with disapproving but I didn't like what it did with the word beyond the basic definition for desaprobar. So I went back to Spanish Dictionary's conjugation page and came up with a gerund, desaprobando, that looked like what I wanted.
So, now we have:
En boca cerrada no entran moscas.
Eso es uno de mis proverbios favoritos. Cuando éramos en la escuela secundaria, decíamos esto, como viejecitas desaprobandas, cuando caminando cerca do un grupo de estudiantes ruidosos.
Oy! That took a lot of time! In addition, since I can't type accent marks, I copy whatever text derived elsewhere that does have them, and blogger copies also the font, the color of the font and the background, and the line spacing, so then I have to clean all those things up. But normally, I should be eventually creating it all elsewhere, on a webpage that does allow typing of accents while writing text, http://spanish.typeit.org/, and it will all be uniform by the time it is entered. While this took a vast amount of time, I was learning, re-learning, solidifying, etc. my Spanish vocabulary and grammar. Hopefully it all adds up as I go along!
first draft. Note that there are things I think I know in Spanish that could be wrong also, but I wanted to write them down as I thought they were.
Now, what do I learn as I start to improve the sentence? I guessed there would be a word related to proverb but wasn't sure if it was only used in the biblical sense. But it looks like it can be defined as a "short, pithy instructive saying" and I think this fits the bill. BTW, I just discovered an engrossing and entertaining website, http://www.lexipedia.com/spanish/proverbio, while investigating this word. A true word lover's website!
So, we now have:
Eso es uno de mis proverbios favoritos. Cuando éramos en la escuela secundaria....
I looked up "high school" in Google Translate because I know the school system names are different in English and Spanish. I realized I wanted to say "we" rather than I, so I looked up the conjugation of "Ser" in Spanish Dictionary's verb conjugation page, http://www.spanishdict.com/conjugate/Ser.
yo y mi mejor amiga .....I looked this up in Google Translate just in case I had done something wrong with the little words....nope, it was fine.
"we would say", translated to diríamos in GT, but I didn't trust it so I went to Spanish Dictionary and looked up conjugations of Decir and believe that instead, GT was treating it as a conditional and it should be a habitual action, so decíamos is the word I actually want. Should I have known these conjugations already? Yes, based on what we covered in class, but I didn't feel at all secure about them so I looked them up anyway.
So, now we have:
Eso es uno de mis proverbios favoritos. Cuando éramos en la escuela secundaria, decíamos esto .... cuando caminando cerca do un grupo de estudiantes ruidosos.
I skipped a bit because I was thinking more productively about the last part more clearly than the next at the moment.
"Whispering, behind our hands". I gave up and used GT for this whole phrase, initially the second part because I wondered if there was some specific phrase for something you say behind your hand. If
there is, I didn't discover it that way. Anyway, susurrando detrás de nuestras manos.
como viejecitas desaprobandas ... Here I found GT really useful because I wanted to make vieja diminuative and viejitas wasn't correct. GT actually knew what I wanted when I typed in "little old lady". And it helped me with disapproving but I didn't like what it did with the word beyond the basic definition for desaprobar. So I went back to Spanish Dictionary's conjugation page and came up with a gerund, desaprobando, that looked like what I wanted.
So, now we have:
En boca cerrada no entran moscas.
Eso es uno de mis proverbios favoritos. Cuando éramos en la escuela secundaria, decíamos esto, como viejecitas desaprobandas, cuando caminando cerca do un grupo de estudiantes ruidosos.
Oy! That took a lot of time! In addition, since I can't type accent marks, I copy whatever text derived elsewhere that does have them, and blogger copies also the font, the color of the font and the background, and the line spacing, so then I have to clean all those things up. But normally, I should be eventually creating it all elsewhere, on a webpage that does allow typing of accents while writing text, http://spanish.typeit.org/, and it will all be uniform by the time it is entered. While this took a vast amount of time, I was learning, re-learning, solidifying, etc. my Spanish vocabulary and grammar. Hopefully it all adds up as I go along!
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