Buen dia. Este es me intento de comunicarse en espanol. Es difficil porque estoy impaciente. Muy impaciente!!! Pero es un idioma hermosa!
Eh, I give up! I need to gush and gushing with vocabulary as incomplete as this is so frustrating! I LOVE SPANISH. It is so beautiful and rhythmic and fun fun fun to learn. But ohmygosh there is so much to learn. I have no idea what an affirmative verb is from a reflexive. Who teaches you these things in English?! No one! I can barely differentiate between nouns and adjectives and verbs and tenses in English but somehow it all fits. Why can’t I magically just acquire Spanish like, say how people acquire swine flu? Easily, unexpectedly, and in full force in a very short period of time. Trying to translate from English to Spanish or Spanish to English is such a mind f*ck (pardon mi francais pero es divertido decir!).
For example:
“Que te pusiste hoy?” means “What are you wearing today?” but the verb is PONER, which means “to put”. So you are asking, literally translated word for word by my ignorant English tongue “What you put today?”. Which of course, to me, makes no sense whatsoever. And so how am I supposed to learn how to speak Spanish if I can’t even find a direct translation for “wear”?! And all these other little things. So I sit there looking at my Spanish teacher, her big grin and sweet eyes (her name is Vivi y la quero) and am trying to make logical connections to things that can’t logically be connected. What frustration, FRUSTRATION I tell you!!!! =D
However, it is SUCH GOOD FUN. Frustratingly fun (ooh, that’s some form of short alliteration si?) because it twists my mind and makes me want to learn. Frustration is a fantastic motivator but so is the need to find a way to express myself at a million words per second to all the great people that I meet here. Why can’t everyone just speak English? I guess because it doesn’t sound so pretty. =) And pretty sounds are really important in life.
I have come across some new favourite words as of late. They sound really pretty and are so fun to say:
- lluvia (pronounced shooveeyaa) – means rain
- helado (pronounced ehlaadoh) – for ice cream (I’ve known this word for a while but it is necessary for survival. When in danger, yell ICE CREAM and hopefully someone hands you a cone of fantastic dulce de leche)
- rodillas (pronounced rohdishas) – for knee (I like this word because it reminds me of a Rhodesian Ridgeback and those are really pretty dogs)
- casamiento – for wedding party (this is interesting because in Tagalog, casal means wedding and I just love how all of these random things come to me from different languages)
And then some fun sentences:
- “Esta re fuerte!” – HE IS HOT!
- “Puedo ver a traves de tus ojos” – I can see through your eyes
- “El dia esta barbaro” – What a great day!
… I learned some others but won’t post them here because they won’t make my Mama proud. 😉 Mostly, I now know how to pick up boys/girls or gossip about them with my friends. Such useful information, huh?! =)
Well, that is all for today’s aventuras en espanol. Tomorrow, maybe I will learn how to insert proper accents on this keyboard so I don’t look/sound/write so gringo!!! =)
Bueno! Hasta manana! =)
Besitos!
