Week 18- Verbos Negativos y Affirmativos
This week I really concentrated on working on learning how to you negative and affirmative verbs. This is important because I will need to be able to tell somebody do something or don’t do something. I am playing different games that help me improve my affirmative and negative verb use. Specifically on http://www.quia.com/mc/435640.html. I really enjoy using this website because it uses fun and interactive games to teach different things. I particulary enjoy the matching game that they have on there. I have also been applying the new things that I learned through a games. If you look at my post called “Para tener buena moda” there is a link to a game that I made that shows you how to have good style and fashion but also lets you practice your affirmative and negative verbs. I feel like this really helped me with working on my verbs. I also commented on http://elfashionista.net/2010/01/12/dora-romero-aw0910/comment-page-1/#comment-21493. This is the fashion website whose creator is very nice. Her name is Piti and I talk to her a lot. This website is great. I basically said what you have to do in my school to have good fashion. I used affirmative verbs in my comment. I will continue working on perfecting my verb use. I would like to have it down in time for the final exam.
Week 13- Practico Mis Verbos
This week I have been working on improving my past tense verb forms. Even though I was working on this last week I still don’t think that I have this down as much as I would like to. This is something that I have been struggling with a lot. I finally feel like I have gotten a little bit of a hang on it but I could still use improvement. It is very important to be able to use past tense verbs when having a conversation with someone. So far I have practiced my past tense verbs in the form of writing. I have used some past tense verbs when emailing people. I have been sending out many emails to native speakers through my personal email account and my epals account. Unfortunately most of the people I have been connecting with are off on summer break because they are from Argentina. Even though my work isn’t perfect i still feel like I am improving. I also used http://www.quia.com/shared/spanish/ to practice my past tense verbs using a matching game which was very fun.
I have also been working on my use of the reflexive verbs. We have been working on this in class a lot. If you look at my post “Las Rutinas” you will see that all of my verbs are conjugated using the reflexive format. In class I have also been doing many worksheets concerning the use of reflexive verbs. I have also been practicing my reflexive verbs using http://www.quia.com/mc/845288.html . I really like the matching games that they have on there. It is important to practice this skill as much as possible.Hopefully I am working to achieve my goals to the best of my ability. It is very important to me to become fluent in Spanish.
Week 12- Trabajo en mi metas
This week I am focusing on working on my goals. I would really like to be able to use past tense verbs better. I think that this is very important when having a conversation. I have done a few activities that have helped me with conjugating verbs. I used http://www.quia.com/mc/1331029.html Both of these websites have activities that help you practice your Spanish. I especially like the matching game because it is a a game that makes learning these verbs fun. I think that if I keep practicing I will be able to achieve my goals.
Here is an email where I conjugated my verbs well. I was talking to a girl named Maryorith. This is the second email I sent her but she hasn’t replied back yet.
Week 9- Connective Blogging
This week we started a new project, connective blogging. This means that we will be responding to other people’s blogs from around the world. So far I have commented on two different blogs. You can find the links to these blogs on the home page of my blog. I made posts about the different blogs. Since I am very interested in fashion I commented on two different fashion blogs. I really would love to connect with these girls because I would love to learn more about what they do. Hopefully they could teach me about Spanish fashions and what’s popular where they live and I could educate them in the styles that are popular there. We are also continuing to exchange email with the students we met through epals. Unfortunately I have not recieved any emails back. I’m going to try to email more students and hopefully they will email me back. I am looking forward to making even more connections. Especially with people who share the same interests as me.
Week 5- Talking with the ESL students
This week has been a little disappointing. On Tuesday we talked to students in the ESL class which was fun. I got a chance to really use my Spanish and we got to help them with their English. I have also been trying to contact a native speaker via Skype so I could talk to them using a microphone but I have had no luck. I tried to contact about 15 or more people but so far none of them have messaged me back. I’m not sure what I am going to do to complete this project but hopefully I will find a solution.
Week 4- Making New Contacts
I can’t believe that it is already week four! So far this week I tried to have a conversation with a native speaker using a microphone but it didn’t quite work due to technical problems. I really hope I will be able to have a conversation using a microphone soon because then I will be working towards my long term goal which is to be able to have a semi fluent conversation with a native speaker. In class we worked on how to lead a conversation and learned some good phrases that will help us when we are trying to communicate with other Spanish speakers. I feel that I have worked hard this week and hopefully my hard work will soon pay off.
I am also about halfway done with completing my mid term goal. So far I have made 3 connections on Skype. I have been talking to these people frequently and have even been helping them improve their English while I improve my Spanish. I only have to make 2 more connections and then I will have completed my goal. I have also made a connection with a teacher and her class on epals which is great. We are going to be exchanging information with them and helping them improve their English while we improve our Spanish. I am very happy about this.
rachel g