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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:53 pm
Oh My GOD! I want a/to be a foreign exchange student so bad! crying crying crying crying crying crying
Ok, I think I'm gonna start to rant know. I think that my parents not letting me go to Spain or something is the one thing holding me back from total fluency. I mean, if I lived in a house where they only speak Spanish, and all I hear all day is Spanish, I would HAVE to use it to "survive". And then I'd easily become fluent. Every morning, I listen to Spanish music/podcasts with out any kind of interaction in English. The problem is, the minute I take the iPod off, I hear English again, which ruins everything. I've GOT to do this! sweatdrop
So then I thought of letting a student live here. We could speak Spanish a lot, even though he/she'd want to speak English also. I wouldn't mind, because I'd have a friend at school who can actually speak Spanish well. whee But, my parents aren't good with that idea either. It Sucks so bad. cry
So, I guess I'll never get to experience anything like I dream. It's makes me sour inside.
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:54 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:39 pm
Hell move down here with me, you can't get away from Spanish here. Well you can, we're getting an influx of pasty white gringos. Of course, if you're looking for Castilian then no go, it's Mexican here. We do have a Spaniard here though. Either she hasn't been told of the differences between American personal space and Spanish personal space, or she really likes me. D:
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:50 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:51 pm
Theochan XD. That is where my Czech friend is from. Kladno, I mean. I really want to go to Prague >_<. Especially in the winter. Then I can go to the Old Town area and see all the old cool buildings in the snow. Plus, it probably won't be so touristy in the winter, so then I will not get trampled on the Charlesbridge. That goes over the Vlata. Apparently, in tourist season the bridge is so jam-packed that it's practically impossible to walk through. Nsh, there would be so much to do in Prague... it would be uber ^_^ Gosh..... i've always wanted to go to prauge! Its like this odd little lifetime obsession of mine. *sighs wistfully*
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:51 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:52 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:55 pm
spanishnerd99 Oh My GOD! I want a/to be a foreign exchange student so bad! crying crying crying crying crying crying Ok, I think I'm gonna start to rant know. I think that my parents not letting me go to Spain or something is the one thing holding me back from total fluency. I mean, if I lived in a house where they only speak Spanish, and all I hear all day is Spanish, I would HAVE to use it to "survive". And then I'd easily become fluent. Every morning, I listen to Spanish music/podcasts with out any kind of interaction in English. The problem is, the minute I take the iPod off, I hear English again, which ruins everything. I've GOT to do this! sweatdrop So then I thought of letting a student live here. We could speak Spanish a lot, even though he/she'd want to speak English also. I wouldn't mind, because I'd have a friend at school who can actually speak Spanish well. whee But, my parents aren't good with that idea either. It Sucks so bad. cry So, I guess I'll never get to experience anything like I dream. It's makes me sour inside. Maybe you could try asking them to go to Mexico for 2 weeks during the summer? It took me half my life to convince my mum to let me go to France (I might be going to France for a month this summer!), but it took me like 5 minutes to convince her to send me to Quebec for 2 weeks the previous summer. Quebec is (obviously) a lot closer to us than France so it's much cheaper and easier to get there, and 2 weeks was enough for my French to improve but not enough for her to grow sick with worry. Course, if you go to Mexico you'll have to speak the Mexican dialect instead of Standard Spain Spanish, but believe me, it's still a LOT better than nothing.
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:56 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:58 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:59 pm
I completely agree.
French conjugations, for me anyway, are a piece of cake. There are more of them in French, but they're easy for me. I once memorised 6 French conjugations in LITERALLY 60 seconds. I can recite them perfectly to this day.
But with Spanish, it's like... gonk
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:00 pm
Proudly_Jewish spanishnerd99 Oh My GOD! I want a/to be a foreign exchange student so bad! crying crying crying crying crying crying Ok, I think I'm gonna start to rant know. I think that my parents not letting me go to Spain or something is the one thing holding me back from total fluency. I mean, if I lived in a house where they only speak Spanish, and all I hear all day is Spanish, I would HAVE to use it to "survive". And then I'd easily become fluent. Every morning, I listen to Spanish music/podcasts with out any kind of interaction in English. The problem is, the minute I take the iPod off, I hear English again, which ruins everything. I've GOT to do this! sweatdrop So then I thought of letting a student live here. We could speak Spanish a lot, even though he/she'd want to speak English also. I wouldn't mind, because I'd have a friend at school who can actually speak Spanish well. whee But, my parents aren't good with that idea either. It Sucks so bad. cry So, I guess I'll never get to experience anything like I dream. It's makes me sour inside. Maybe you could try asking them to go to Mexico for 2 weeks during the summer? It took me half my life to convince my mum to let me go to France (I might be going to France for a month this summer!), but it took me like 5 minutes to convince her to send me to Quebec for 2 weeks the previous summer. Quebec is (obviously) a lot closer to us than France so it's much cheaper and easier to get there, and 2 weeks was enough for my French to improve but not enough for her to grow sick with worry. Course, if you go to Mexico you'll have to speak the Mexican dialect instead of Standard Spain Spanish, but believe me, it's still a LOT better than nothing. Heh...... before i moved i could never find programs that wouldnt cost me my soul. My school has an annual spring trip to france that i might do next year but i'm going on the summer trip to south africa already and i cant afford both ^^. Which reminds me..... anyone want to teach me affrikaan?
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:01 pm
Proudly_Jewish I completely agree. French conjugations, for me anyway, are a piece of cake. There are more of them in French, but they're easy for me. I once memorised 6 French conjugations in LITERALLY 60 seconds. I can recite them perfectly to this day. But with Spanish, it's like... gonk Yeah...... there is so many irregulars in french but for me its not a problem, but for spanish its like there are no irregulars but they make up for it with 40 thousand different odd rules for each conjucation.
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:21 pm
Hell let's all go to Prague, all three of us >:\ And anybody else who wants to come.
And then we can check out Kladno and Hranice and surprise our friends there D:.
Then again I dont know if I'm considered his friend anymore since I hvaent contacted him in easily a year.
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:59 pm
Sluvotsky Hell let's all go to Prague, all three of us >: And anybody else who wants to come. And then we can check out Kladno and Hranice and surprise our friends there D:. Then again I dont know if I'm considered his friend anymore since I hvaent contacted him in easily a year. That is an excellent idea. Then we can go get lost in the Czech Republic together! And scare the Czech people. And stuff.
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