Okay. ...okay.
Today was the first day of classes, and, as I suspected, I was placed at the wrong level. My reading comprehension for Spanish is at the intermidiate level. But my listening/speaking/vocabulary/writing are all at square1. Nada. I take comfort in the fact that after less than a week, I am already starting to recognize about twice as many words as before. Okay, maybe not THAT much of an improvement. More like I've learned 15 or so of the most common words.
Today I learned that Barranquillans don't believe in pronouncing S sounds. And they don't differiate between their y/j/ll sounds. Really lazy spanish! I think i'll get it though. My new friend Harold has volunteered to be a walking, talking spanish-english dictionary. He's got pretty good English. He's an English teacher for an international company, and for something like 6-10th grade.
¡gringo!
I couldn't listen to the sound, but it looks beautiful there. :D
ReplyDeleteYeah, Chilean Spanish was just like that. It was funny because I was able to speak LONG before I was able to understand, which confused people. I could say anything I wanted after not too long, and then they'd respond and I'd be completely lost, which I guess is backwards from how most people are with a language, but I blame it on the fact that I spoke very proper Spanish that could be understood by anyone, while they were speaking mud Spanish. Just awful. No Ss, no distinction between Vs, Bs, and Ws. And pretty much they could just drop out ANY consonant they wanted.
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