CSheridan;BlogPost#3
Este conversacion fue muy bien y perfecto. Yo hablé con una persona que vives en Oregon. Él es muy interesante y agradable. Yo quiero hablar con su otra vez.
Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
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)rc
Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner
- I spoke with Manuel. He was fluent at spanish, he was the one who decided to chat with me and he was willing to help me.What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
- I learned a lot about him because he was describing how he looked like and such. I learned that he likes to hang out with his friends, watch movies etc. I may have included it in the audio. For the audio, I didn't include the whole thing because originally, it was about 45 minutes and I had to cut it down to 5 minutes.How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?
- To be a little more comfortable with speaking because when he spoke, he was really quickly with it and I don't get what he's talking about so I ask ¿Como? like million times.What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to 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)
- My last week's goal was to have an actual conversation like audio wise instead of IMs because I wanted to improve my pronunciation as well.Last week was about understanding dating in Spanish speaking countries and now it is all about marriage. This week I talked to a 35 year old teacher from Colombia who was very willing to talk to me about marriage. To help understand my conversation, there are a list of vocabulary below.
Vocabulary
Casamiento/Matrimonio - marriage
Pareja- partner/ pair
Vigencia- validity
Cédula- identity card
Juzgado- court
Reclamar- to claim
llenar- to fill out
Coincidir- to coincide
Catolicos- Catholic
Pedir- to ask
Vendidas- sold
Tribu- tribe
Entregado- Selfless
Marido- husband
Summary
If the conversation was to difficult to understand I can give a quick summary.- ¿Cuales son algunos formas de escuchar cortésmente?
- ¿Hay algunos cosas que no son cortés cuando alguien le esta hablando?
- ¿Es difícil a escuchar cortésmente o es facil escuchar cortesmente?
IM and text talk has become increasingly more popular in this generation. For the most part, people are very lazy, and decide not to type out full words or sentences. Personally, I type out full words and sentences when I talk to people online, but abbreviate everything when I text people. My research questions were, "Is there a difference between IM talk and text talk? What are the popular abbreviations?" I talked to a 20 girl, Fatima, from Spain to get her outlook.
Isabella T: Is there a difference between instant messaging and text messaging?
Fatima L: not really. it is all kind of the same.
Isabella T: What are the most popular abbreviations?
Fatima L: a10 and a2 are usually used to say "adios" and aki is used to say "aquí"
Fatima L: numbers are usually used in abbreviations. it is also popular to say b7s which is "kisses". which is said instead of adiós/goodbye.
Isabella T: Haha, that's interesting. In english, people usually shorten words, but it seems like in spanish words are abbreviated by the way the words actually sound. Such as "aki" or "bn"
Fatima L: yeah, that is true. other ones are like "exo" (hecho) or "fsta" (fiesta).
Isabella T: Are there any weird abbreviations?
Fatima L: yeah i guess so. por favor is usually "xfa" and hasta luego is "hl".
Most people don't know that texting and instant messaging started or became popular in Europe before anywhere else. I did find it interesting that they use numbers as apposed to just using letters.
There are many ways to break up with people. There are also many reasons why. Through my research I found out a couple of ways to say it if you want to learn there down below…
Corté con mi novia/novio.
Rompí con mi novia/novio.
Lo dejé con mi novia/novio.
Mi novia/novio y yo lo dejamos.
To Break Up-Separarse
To Break Up-Terminar
To Break Up-Hacerse Pedazos
As you can see there are many ways to let someone down easy. :)
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Who you spoke with and why you
chose that partner
The girl’s name was Astrid, and I talked to her because she
actually responded!
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What did you learn about
them? What did you learn from them?
We didn’t get a chance to finish our
conversation, but I know that she is about my age, a bit older, and she is
learning English on her own, which is really hard!
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How did this interaction help
you move towards achieving your personal goals?
My new goal is to find out about people’s abilities
to speak languages that are not their own (having me as the test subject as
well) I am pretty happy with this discussion.
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What specifically did you do
well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to 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)
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I am pretty sure that if I
could do this again, I would do it the same way.