Proyecto de Conversación: What are sports like in your country?

Pre-Conversation

• The five questions that I plan to ask are:

1. Why do you want to learn English?
2. What are sports like in (the country)?
3. Do you play any sports?
4. Do they play American football?
5. What do you think is a funny sport to watch?

• I expect my partner to find the questions that I am going to ask interesting. I plan to make the chat as friendly as possible, so that my partner will not feel uncomfortable.
• I am looking forward to learning about another person's culture. The reason is because I enjoy learning about foreign cultures. It is interesting to compare my culture with theirs'.
• I am nervous that my partner will not be friendly. I hope that they do not say anything rude to me.

Post-Conversation

• I spoke with Cindy because I thought that her name sounded friendly. She was also the only person that actually accepted my chat request.
• I learned that they don't like sports and that they think learning English is difficult. I learned that the main sports played in Colombia differ from the main sports played in the United States. American sports like baseball aren't as common in Colombia.
• This interaction helped me to move towards my goal of becoming more fluent in Spanish by forcing me to speak with a native Spanish speaker. Talking to my partner provided me with a lot of practice writing in Spanish.
• I did well keeping the conversation with my partner going. I thought that the chat would be quite dry, but we actually had a good conversation.
• I need to improve on using correct grammar in Spanish. I would start sentences with lowercase letters and occasionally forget to end sentences with punctuation marks. If I were to do it again, I would have wrote more properly.