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I will talk about how the financial crisis is affecting people in their everyday lives. We learned about "Huelga total en la enseñanza" in Spain but we still need to learn about this same situation in other countries.

•  What are 5 questions related to your conversation goal that you can think of ahead of time to ask your partner?

1. How has the global financial crisis affected you and your family?

2. Are there budget cuts in education?

3. How do you save money?

4. Are things like groceries and fuel more expensive?

5. Do you think life will improve soon?

•  What are you looking forward to about this conversation?

I am looking forward to learning more about how the economic crisis is affecting people across the globe. I am excited to learn about the outlook of the people and how they are coping. We have learned about the issues facing Spain and the cuts that were made to the education system but I want to expand this to other countries.

•  What are you nervous about?

I am a little nervous about this conversation because this is an advanced topic and I might not know all the vocabulary words that I will probably need. This is why did did now some prior work trying to get some of the essential vocabulary words that I will need for my conversation.

Post-Conversation:

Reflection:

• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?

I spoke with Hector Paisanocharca from Lima, Peru. I wanted to talk to Hector because he is 38 years old and he is likely to know more about the financial situation in his country.

• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

Hector told me that the financial crisis did not affect Peru as much as it did other countries. However, Peru has seen a rise in the price of goods and services. Hector also said that the economy of Peru is seeing less growth. On the family level, he says that people have to spend more money for the same products than they did before. Hector says that he had to cut back on spending to save money. I also learned that sometimes the prices of gas and groceries sometimes double in Peru. Hector is very optimistic and thinks that life will get better soon. I also told Hector the life int he United States has gotten very hard for some people and prices are higher. People here in the US are also trying to save money by spending less.

• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?

I learned many new spanish vocab words from this interaction with Hector. I also got to learn about the financial struggles of people in Peru while at the same time sharing information about the economic impact here in the United States. Finally, I got to use my existing spanish language to form sentences and ask questions of Hector.

Introducción On tuesday las cazuelas catered us to a luncheon.This was a very nice experience .The last unit we did was with food etiquette.Also we have seen picture of poblanna food and practice our spanish.This was our chance to exprience poblanna dishes.

Nombre del plato Sope de Maiz 

Opinión  Tacos es mi favorita porque primera vez que se intena 

Unos Ingredientes los ingredients es solamente pollo con sauce . 

 Opinión : Mi gusta  

Unos Ingredientes:   tres leches ,pastel de vainilla

Comentarios: si lo recomiendo

For this blog post me and Estafan talked about his favorite celebrity.  It was odd because his favorite sport is Soccer and he plays soccer, but his favorite celebrity was Kevin Durant, whom happens to be a basketball player.  He also said that his favorite basketball team was the OKC Thunder, and they are believed to win the NBA championship this year, so we talked about that and he believes that they would win the championship because they are a young team who are fast and strong and very athletic.

For this blog post me and Estafan talked about his favorite celebrity.  It was odd because his favorite sport is Soccer and he plays soccer, but his favorite celebrity was Kevin Durant, whom happens to be a basketball player.  He also said that his favorite basketball team was the OKC Thunder, and they are believed to win the NBA championship this year, so we talked about that and he believes that they would win the championship because they are a young team who are fast and strong and very athletic.

Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
I spoke to Marco. He is cool I guess, and we had a long discussion, but I was only able to ss one small part of our discussion.

What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
I learned that he learned English for two years and Russian for a little while, I learned how he did it, his reasons and…. Then we just talked about our lives in both languages.

How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
My goal was and is to find out about people’s language skills, which means that this one obviously helped a lot.

What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?

I… simply learned about him. I did not follow my goal too much, but for a good chunk of our discussion, I did, so… yea!

Nombre del Plato: Sopes de Maíz (Round Corn tortillas)

Opinión: No me gusta el sabor.

Unos ingredientes: La harina

Comentarios: No lo recomiendo.

Nombre del Plato: Pollo Cazuelas

Opinión: Me fascina es my delicioso

Unos ingredientes: pollo

Comentarios: Lo recomiendo.  Agradable intentar.

Nombre del Plato: Tres  Leches ( el postre)

Opinión: Me gustaría inténtelo otra vez.

Unos ingredientes: La leche.

Comentarios:Todo el mundo debe probar este pastel.

Nombre del Plato: Horchata

Opinión: Es definitivamente remojo mojado con leche.

Unos ingredientes: La canela y la leche

Comentarios: Cada uno le gusta.

• Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner?

  I spoke with this girl from Venezuela named Zulelulsmar. She started the conversation.

• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

  She's a petroleum engineer and also a bit about Venezuelan holidays. How it gets out of control and crazy during holidays.

• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?

  Learned how to properly arrange certain sentences. 

• 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)

  I think I did well in at least being able to interpret what she was trying to say. I do need to improve on sentence structures and the proper use of vocabs. Such as "si, soy un estudiante" or "no estudio en la universidad, en escuela secundaria" 
  

• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
  I spoke with Juan. I chose him because he is a native spanish speaker and he wanted to learn english or german so I figured we would be a good match. 

• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

  I learned some proper ways of speaking spanish. I got mistaken when I wrote down I was hot. He immediately showed me how to say it without it being I am like on fire or something. 

• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?

  This interaction helped me achieve my personal goals because I want to try to have a basic conversation without translating and having people correct me is a great way for me to learn. 

• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?

  I didn't use a translater this time and I tried to keep the conversation going. He eventually left though. 

• 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 improve on my basic spanish sentence structure.  

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/