the slang of another country. 

¿Habla mucho *argot con tu amigos?

¿Que argot en argentina?

¿Que Comica palabras adolescente habla? 

¿Tu habla mucho argot? 

¿*Argot es normal?

 *lenguaje de informal (Different way of saying slang, using this more people understood my questions.)

Sources:

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/spanish/spain-slang.htm 

http://www.spanish-slang.com/

What are you looking forward to about this conversation?
I am looking forward to learning some slang in spanish. I don't know any or if its really different from english slang. It should be fun!
What are you nervous about?
I am not really nervous, this is going to be my 5th conversation, I feel like I got this now!

Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
I spoke to many different people. The reason for this is because the first couple people I spoke with didn't understand what I was asking, but I am not really sure why. Also many people were very touchy with this topic. I am unsure why people were so touchy, I hope I didn't offend them. This was very weird to me. 

What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
I learned many different ways to say "slang." Using different versions of saying slang can cause you to get different types of reactions, some better then others. I was really surprised. I also learned about eres la hosita, which means thats awesome, but can be used positively or negatively. It use to mean something religious but now its used used to describe something. 

How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
It helped me learn a little about slang but it also showed me how people react to different questions and topics. I got the feel that this topic could of been touchy for some people in these spanish speaking countries where its not touchy at all in America.

 
What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
I kept talking to people until I learned some type of form of slang, This included talking to four people, but I didn't give up. I really wanted to learn something. 

What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)
I need to figure out better ways to phrase things. Many of the people didn't understand how I was wording things and wasn't use to the form of spanish I was using. For one the word Argot meaning slang in spanish confused almost everyone and no know knew it. This is what word reference told me but I guess people don't really use that word. 

For my final blog post I decided to guide my conversation from talking about the types of food he eats in Ecuador to what the culture is like and how the teenage life is like. Like what teenagers do for fun. So when asking him, he tells me that Ecuador is kind of a little more chill than other countries like Brazil. THe drinking age apparently is 15 years old, and they go to "farrear" which seems like it would be a noun in English but really is a verb. To farrear is when teens go out to party, sing, dance, and drink, and you only have to be 12 years old to go farrear. It seems like age really isn't that big of a thing in Ecuador since kids can be so young to drink alcohol. So I guess this also means they get treated like adults earlier meaning they are expected to be pretty independent and help support their families. 

Conversation question addressed: Cuales la diferencia entre "conocer" y "saber"?

​Pre-Conversation: 
So this conversation will be discussing with different people about the diference between "saber" and "conocer". I don't really have any discussion questions ahead of time...but I want to ask questions like:

"Como tu ta?"

"Que estudias?"

y "Cuales la diferencia entre "conocer" y "saber"?"

I'm anticipating a few interesting, but not really difficult conversation. 
 
Post Conversation:

This weeks goal was a run off of last weeks goal was about obtaining jokes and knowing how to speak about where you are from and what it feels like.

This week, I was interested in knowing what my friend, Maria, is main mistaken for. Although she's Latina, her pale skin can make people think she's many other nationalities. I wanted to know which. For myself, I'm unmistakably one race, so I wanted to the the perspective of someone who has to deal with being called one race versus their own. 

This week, I decided to talk to my friend, Maria, about her country versus the US. Since she moved here when she was 5, it wasn't much to remember. But, I tried to pick her brain to see if there was anything of significance to mention. I was intrigued to see the perspective of a person that wasn't born in the US and how it's differences make it so.... unique in the experience here. 

For my last conversation I decided to talk with my mom about our trip back to Guatemala. We had to get though customs in our layover with enough time to get to our flight to Philadelphia.     

​This is my last post it was fun to do this project. It wasn't so much to do with speaking Spanish but learning it and if people would want to learn it right.

¿En ingles Por favor? On Mayy 22, classe de espanol uno experienced the foods of Puebla, Mexico. While eating these delicious foods we got to speak to the amazing chiefs. They told us that cooking was their passion and is an art form that they enjoy doing.Not to mention one of the caterers was a boxer but this was his second love.I would recommend this food to any one who is willing to take their taste buds on a cultural journey. 

¡Aquí las cocinas!

Sopa de Maiz
mas o menos caliente y pequena
los frijoles,tortilla
facil hacer

Chuletas Tentacíon
Caliente y resistente
Crushed peppers,peprika
Mas comida

Pollo Cazuelas
Delicioso,pequina,mas o menos blanco
Cebolla,ajo,sal,lemon
mmmmmmm

Way to go students!  These biowalls are beautiful.  Thanks to Ms. Dunda for introducing such a terrific project.  It's inspiring.

Intro:
Yesterday, we had the Head Chef and owner, and chefs of "Las Cazuelas" because we had a luncheon that Senorita Manuel has ordered for us. 

Tres Leche 
Me encanta porque Tres Leche es me favorita
Leche, Flour
Porque es muy delicioso.

Pollo Cazuelas
Es muy juicy
Pollo, sauce
Muy Juicy

Sopas de Maiz y Tacos Dorados
Sopas es dry y Tacos es muy dry tambien
Pollo, tortilla, fritos
Dry

Arroz
Similar Cambodian comida
Arroz, Carrot
muy delicioso 

​Today we had a luncheon from a mexican restaurant, and it was muy muy fabuloso! We got to ask the chef and the owner questions, how he became a chef, about internships and how the food was made with love!

 
Tacos dorados
no me gusta!
pollo 
dry



pollo cazuelas
muy delicioso
pollo
tastes zesty!



Chueltas tentacion
mi gusta!
chuelta
tough



Sopes de maiz
delicioso!
frijoles
mi gusta!!!!!

¡​Todo es bueno, muy delicioso!

Bruskin Hardware: A Short Documentary & Website

 

By: Matthew Scuderi

 

In School Mentor: Chris Alfano

Outside Mentor: Irvin Bruskin

 

Overview:

My capstone project focused on the history and overall establishment of a local South Philadelphia historic hardware store through the means of a short documentary and website.

 

Abstract:

            For my capstone, I decided to improve my joint history and English benchmark from my junior year and completely renovate the website that I created for the project. A website alone seemed too quick and easy, so I compiled a short documentary that took hours of work throughout the school year to complete. In the documentary, I focus on what the store is, what it is like, the history of the store, and I touch on many other aspects of the store via narration and interview answers from the manager of the store. The website focuses on most of the same things as the documentary, but offers further exploration of the store and the history behind it with photos and text. Included in the website is also store information. Through the process of this project, I spent time planning the website’s features, planning and conducting narration and interview question, filming, and film editing. Through this project, I learned many things about the hardware store that I did not know before and also gained a lot of learning experiences from web design and film editing as well as storytelling.

 

Capstone Project Location (Website):

https://sites.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/bruskin-hardware-l/home

​For my last blog post I decided to ask and see what some of the significant changes in how people talk in spanish were over the recent, about 10-20 years maybe a bit more or less, are and if there are any in the spanish language.  

Yet again I was able to interview my old spanish teacher, Meastra Sandra.

In this blogpost I have learned that the way that people talk has changed over the years significantly in both languages.  Through these blog posts as a whole I have learned that the two languages are actually very similar to each other.

One place that you can find some examples of how the language has changed near the bottom of the page is here. 

Another place that you can find more about how the language has changed over the recent years is here.

I spoke to Ray from SharedTalk. Honestly, I spoke to many, many people and they just stopped replying after I asked for a joke. 

I just continued to do what I always did and speak to people about their day. Then as soon as I asked for a "chiste" they either didn't know one, didn't understand, or just didn't say anything. 

The only flaw with this conversation is that no one wanted to give me a joke. Maybe they don't value jokes in Spanish speaking countries. I tried to Google a few jokes, but I never understood the jokes. I guess I could have kept trying, but after ten people stopped replying after the mention of a joke, I felt like I hurt them in some way. One person not knowing a joke is fine. But when everyone just stops replying, it seems like something bigger. 

​Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
I spoke with a male from Columbia named Alejandro. I did not choose this person, this person chose me and I seen that spanish was his native language so it worked well for the both us beings though I wanted to learn/work on my spanish and he wanted to learn/work on his english. 

What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
I learned about his favorite type of music and what type of songs he likes and I found out that he is a fan of a band called "Def Leppard" and he talked about what songs he likes. I found it pretty funny how since I said I liked music and I am from philadelphia, he sent me a youtube video of a music video of a song called "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z2DtNW79sQ&ob=av2e)

How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
This interaction helped me move towards achieving my personal goal because I wanted to learn about people in other countries music tastes and not only did I learn about their music taste but I shared with them the music we listen to in America. He didn't know who Nicki Minaj was so I sent him the "Super Bass" video and he liked it.

What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
I asked questions about what type of music he liked. 

What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)
I think next time, I need to work on asking my partner to speak in spanish because I always give up and start speaking english whenever they start to speak english because I understand that just like me, they also want to learn a new language so I have to be fair. 

Goal:Effects of the language in persons life.

Las Preguntas:

¿Comó aprendes español?

¿Tienes la clase de español?

¿Qué haces en la clase?

¿la clases esta amable con tu vida diario?

¿Cuándos uso español?

¿Hablante do lenguajes esta bien? ¿Qué es unas ventajas?

Transcript:

Yo-Hola chica! Tienes un minuto?

Ella-Hola..si

Yo-necesito preguntar para el blog.

Ella-si.

Yo-Primero, cómo aprendes español?

Ella-Yo soy de Puerto Rico, así que crecí escuchando y me metieron en un programa de inmersión en español en la escuela primaria.

Yo-Tan hablas español desde que infancia...muy interesante.Explicas la programa por favor?

Ella-Así que el padre puede decidir si o no para el niño estar en el programa. Pero básicamente se trata de todas las clases (ciencias, matemáticas, escritura, etc) todos en español. Crees que va a ser duro, pero tiene un hijo a aprender cosas más rápido.

Yo-Muy interesante…¿Tienes la clase de español ahora?

Ella-si

Yo-Yo también...la clase de español tres.¿Qué numero tu tienes?

Ella-cuatro

Yo-si si..yo tengo la clase próximo año.¿Qué haces en la clase?

Ella-Trabajamos en la gramática y la conjugación de diferentes períodos de tiempo. Para que las cosas gramaticales en lugar de la palabra como un todo.

Yo-Si, yo hago cosas similares en español tres.¿La clase esta amable con tu vida diario?

Ella-Si

Yo- explicas por favor

Ella-Lo hace porque me ayude a ampliar mi vocaulario y mi programador para cuando en mi día que entran en contacto con alguien que hable español. Ya sea un visitante en la escuela o uno de mis amigos me ven en la calle.

yo-Bien bien…la clase ayuda en conversaciones similares a eso...jaja.¿Cuándo uso español?

Ella-En español clase jajaja Pero cuando voy a mi tienda de la esquina que tiene los puertorriqueños en el mismo, cuando veo a mi familia española o cantar canciones en español.

Yo-si si..¿hablante dos lenguajes esta bien?¿qué son unas ventajas?

Ella-Sí. Es muy divertido. Sobre todo cuando se los pone a ambos juntos. Pero sus ventajas es que puede una ventaja en las personas desde la lengua más común que se va a enseñar en las escuelas es el español. Me siento como el idioma está creciendo y va a ser el segundo al Inglés.

Yo-si si están completo gracias!

Reflection:

I contented talking to Brianna Perrin. Somewhere between this conversation and the last I considered talking to a stranger but I thought it would be better to continue with the same person. From this conversation I learned what to expect in spanish four next year. I also learned about immersion programs. I also learnedd how Brianna benefits from being bilingual. This time around it was easier to come up with questions without having to write them in english first. I'm not sure if that is because I'm getting better at writing questions or because my goals are easier to reach. I still feel like my conversations are more like interviews. So that what I'm definitely going to try to improve on for the last conversation. Maybe for the last conversation I won't plan out questions, just have a normal conversation.