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This week was about responding right away. With out being able to have to think or re-read the spanish and just comprehending it. Since it was this my partner, Isa and I just had a conversation. I happen to be seeing her this weekend so we kind of talked about that. (All in spanish, of course!) I thought it was going to be hard, but I learned that I do know more spanish than i thought and that I actually can have a back and forth conversation with out taking forever to reply. It was really excting to know that I could do that because I came in with low expectations because of my thoughts and came out of this conversation with high expectations. My partner Isa was proud we were having a back and forth conversation with out me taking FOREVER to reply and her just sitting there. It was good to know that I can have a normal conversation in spanish! :)

1.) El bano es muy pequeño
2.) Mi casa es muy pequeño
3.) No tele y sofa.
4.) No tiene sala de estar.
5.) La cocina es grande.
6.) Mi dormitorio es muy pequeno.

1. El jardín es muy grande 2. Dos habitacións es pequeño 3. Un sofá en la casa 4. el guardarropas es grande 5. Tres laventanas 6. Hay cocina y comedor es muy muy pequeño

For this week, I choose to focus on the political system of my partner's country. My interest in their political system came from a discussion me and one of my peers, Jacob Lotkowski had on political theory. The talk brought upon thoughts of how political systems work in other countries. I decided I would use my resources for this project to establish the question of "Que es gobierno como?" For this question, I established five questions to answer this question:

en tú país, político sistema como?
cuando ley ridículo?
intersección entre governo y religión?
Es ahí algo como US senate?
Defectos en tú politico sistema?

The person I met is from Colombia, and her name is Violeta. I met her through Sharedtalk, which I will be using for now on to answer my essential questions for this project. Talking to Violeta, there was a lot of miscommunications and understandings. Some of my questions she wasn't able to understand very, as I wasn't able to word them well enough. Some of the answers I received were a vague and without an actual answer, such as the fourth question that I asked. I didn't get very much of an answer with that, as I don't think my parker was very prepared to answer the questions that I asked. It was pretty difficult to talk to her, as she wouldn't talk back to me in spanish when I would ask a question in spanish. I was able to find out a few small things though, which allowed me to research them and find out more. I found out that Ley Lleras was a bill that would affect how content was shared and downloaded, similar to the recent bills which were trying to be passed here. I also found out that Colombia has similar to the United States in structure of government, as they both have presidents.
    My final question was never answered, but I understand how Colombia's government functions from this.  This was my first time using Sharedtalk for conversation, and I enjoyed it much more than I did live mocha, or using friends of mine. With Sharedtalk it was so much quicker to find people to talk to, as I had several conversation request (I know, I'm quite popular) while I was talking to Violeta. For my final entry, I'm certainly using shared talk, as it was less of a headache than the other outlets of communication I had.

Some Political terms in Spanish:
la política
político
gobierno
constitución
ciudadano
derechos
presidente
congreso
senado
diputado
senador
gobernador
votar
el voto
la elección
elegido
campaña
partido
encuesta
republicanos
demócratas
independientes
derechista
izquierdista
conservador
liberal
debate
candidato/nominee
delegado
colegio electoral
ideología
lobby

Conversation about Politics:

1) La cocina tiene mucho cabinas.

2) Hay un tele.

3) Hay no tiene nevera en la casa.

4) El baño es grande.

5) Hay dos pisos.

6) Hay tres sofas.

Rough Cut Film Festival 2012

at The Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, PA)

Tues, June 5, 2012 (6-8:30 PM)

Rough Cut Productions proudly presents its first annual film festival showcasing student work from the past academic season. Varying in length and content, all of the films in the showcase make it abundantly clear that age is not pre-requisite for professional filmmaking.

The films included in this inaugural show run the gamut of storytelling via content, style and format, but all come back to skills honed through our video production courses.

Come to The Franklin for an evening of films that will entertain, provoke thought, inspire and most importantly celebrate the amazing work of these young artists.

A Q&A session with the filmmakers along with a reception will follow the film screenings. This event is free, and open to the SLA community and their guests. The Musser Theater has a 250 person capacity, so reserve your ticket early.

Go to our event page on EVENTBRITE to reserve your free ticket

Hay un carror en el Garaje. Hay una computerdora en el cuarto. la cama en el cuarto es grande. Hay una ventana en la sala. un perro en el jardin. la sofá en la sala es grande. la jardin es grande.

I spoke to Henry King from SharedTalk because he was kind of ok to speak to and wasn't a creep, like Mercader. He held up a conversation well. However, when he found out I was a noob and learning from strangers, he went Spanish grammar Nazi on me. 

I tried to speak as well as I could just to get my point across. I made mistakes by just throwing our random words that one would think would get my word across, but Henry K kept correcting me and I got frustrated. 

I guess my main mistake was mixing up similar words with one another, like "por" and "para." 

On italki, I asked if there are double entendres in spanish. I learned that it is called "doble sentido" in spanish and french. I also learned that they only have "doble sentidos" in only some spanish speaking countries. I also received a couple of other insightful answers.

No hay un tele.

Tiene un baño es bañera.

No hay un carro.

No un garaje.

No una tiene dos animales.

No una bicicleta.

Aaron 
Jamie 
Joe 
Daniel 

Eastern Europe - Henry Poeng, Sean Force, Jhonas Dunakin, Mike Roth, Jake Lotkowski

You can also find the video here if it's not working

El bano es muy peceno

Refesco en el corre

En casa es dos bano

La dressora es muy grande

No hay el tele nada

Hay un techo

Hay un ventuna

Tienrrre la sala

1.     Hay dos ventanas.

2.     Hay  uno el stufa.

3.     Hay una concina bonita.

4.     Hay un techo.

5.     La casa es muy peqina.

6.     La casa   tiene un el baño.

Tyanna Pleasant, Markietra Keese, Sarybel Melendez, Zaria Linton

1. Tiene dos habatacion
2. tiene un sóntano
3. Tiene un jardin
4. tiene un baño
5. tiene un arbol
6. Tiene un cocina
7. tiene una flor
8. Tiene un ventana en todos la cocina