La Conversation Numero Cuatro

Goal: Share my opinions and experiences (Talking about things we have in common)


Las Preguntas

¿Música esta importante en tu vida? ¿Por que?

¿Qué typo de música te gusta?

¿Comó estas presentar bailar?

¿Solamente tu te gusta bailar en tu familia?


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Yo:Hola chica! Que pasa?

Ella-Hola.nada,escuchando música y tu?

Yo-Yo también! Yp escuchando a Justin Bieber para el momento.jaja.¿Música esta importante en tu vida?

Ella-si musica es importante en mi vida

Yo-¿Por que?

Ella-La música es importante para mí porque me ayuda cuando estoy molesto, feliz, cansado, excitado. No importa lo que yo estoy en el estado de ánimo que puede encontrar una canción para que coincidan. Yo crecí con la música tocando el piano, la guitarra y el violín. Es lo que me mantiene viva del tipo.

Yo-yo ve,yo ve.M siento también…la música ayuda me relajarse,concentrado,y hace feliz.A veces música describe comó me humor mejor de me.

Ella-claro que si.

Yo-Esta bien.Me gusta R&B y pop.¿Qué typo de música te gusta?

Ella-todos.

yo-esta bien. Qué es tu favorita?

Ella-R&B

Yo-si si…con todos la música a escucha,te gusta bailar?

Ella-Si te gusta.

Yo-Yo también!! ¿Comó estas presentar bailar?

Ella-Yo bailo ballet y danza moderna. Cada canción me hace bailar de otra manera. Depende del ritmo y el humor de la canción.

Yo-¿llevas clases de baila?

Ella-No. Yo me enseñan a partir de vídeos y viendo Dancing With The Stars.

Yo-Jaja yo también! Yo bailo desde que pequeño pero yo no llevo un clase.Me gusta veo vídeos de baila en Youtube y intento aprendo la coreografía.

Ella-si si yo también!

Yo-jaja.Mi padre baila tambien...yo obtengo mi habilidades desde el.¿Solamente tu te gusta bailar en tu familia?

Ella-Un poco más. Mi papá baila para ser gracioso. Pero desde que mi mamá es de Puerto Rico baila salsa cada vez que tenemos los partidos con la familia.

Yo-Muy Bien!


Reflection:

For this conversation I continued talking to Brianna Perrin. I like talking to her because I feel more comfortable.In this conversation we talked about something that interest both her and me, music and dance. I feel like this conversation is actually a conversation we would have as friends, it seemed more realistic and not like an interview. I think I am making progress with making my conversation more casual. This is helpful because if I'm talking to someone in spanish its not just going to be question and answer. I noticed that my transitions and conjugations are getting better. I still do need to improve on getting my point across with my questions,make them more specific.

Proyecto de Conversación: Our Favorites

Annisa Ahmed
Español lll, D Band
Conversation Project: Week Four

Antes de Conversación:
What will your topic of conversation be?
    Trying to find out what people enjoy doing as well as how can we find similarities within.
What are you looking forward to about this conversation?
    I am looking forward to talking to a person on a more personal level than I have ever dared to go before.
What are your nervous about?

    I am a tad bit nervous about how I will write down my own key highlights, and responding to theirs. I don't want to take very long or make them feel reluctant to share. Wish me luck.

Después de Conversación:
Who did you speak with and why did you choose them?
     All of them find me, as did Majela Alvarez Rivera. She was around my age and I figured it would be easier to find some things that we might have in common - teenagers are pretty much the same.
What did you learn about them?
    Majela likes basketball, swimming as well as music. And she likes a long list of genres.
How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your goal?
    I got a long list of answers, from things she likes to do to the number of siblings she has. So yes, I would consider this to be a success.
What did you do well according to your goals?
    Yeah, I sidetracked a bit but for the most part, it was a great conversation. 
What specifically do you need to improve on?
    I should try to not use WordReference too much for words I don't understand and just go with what I know because it will be better practice and also, less relying of me.
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Yang- Conversacíon #4

  • Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner

    I spoke with Emilio for the 3rd time, and that's also the reason why I picked him. It's easier to communicate with. 
  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

    Spanish verbs are a pain to learn even though he's a native speaker. He taught me some different ways to say "awesome." 
  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?

    Gained new vocabularies and learned proper ways to state a certain question. It's advancing me in vocabularies. 
  • 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)


    Still need to improve on question/sentence structures. 
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Msanders Blogpost 5

Before

•  What will be your topic of conversation be? 

Drinking.

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

 - Do you drink?

 - Whats the drinking age?

 - Where are the partys at?

 - If so where do you go?

 - If not then what bad stuff you do.?


•  What are you looking forward to about this conversation? 

I don't know if this was personal but I asked about drinking in Mexico. Obviously I talked to someone who was underage and she said never in her live did she drink.


•  What are you nervous about? 

I'm nervous that I might mess up and she will Yell at me and say I can't speak spanish correctly. I had no confidence.


After:

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

I talked to Nohemi from Mexico She was 17 from Mexico. 


• What did you learn about them? 

The drinking age in Mexico is 18. Thats different from the 21 drinking age in America. I also learned that in Mexico there are a lot of partis at the beach. Its different from regular teen parties. In mexico its more tradition with music parties.


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

Nohei was a very nice girl. She was my age and understand what I was going through because just last year she felt the same about english. Also she said that she was ok with the topic which was fine by me.


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

I learned about drinking in Mexico. I also learned that Nohemi is a good little girl who never does anything wrong. She said she never had one sip of alcohol in her life. Not that she was suppose to but most teens usually have at least 1 sip in their teenage years.


• 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 want to improve on talking like a regular spanish person and not like I'm some 5 year old trying to learn the language. I want words to come natural to me instead of looking them up.

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Blog #4

  • Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
    I spoke to Jonathan Flores, he's from Spain. I didn't chose him chose him. He asked to have a private conversation. Then I thought, why not? 

  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
    I learned that he loves rock and romantic musics, but he hates rap music because he think it's ugly. He's 23 years old and he's a student in college majoring in English because he said he wanted to be a teacher in the future :) 

  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
    To be honest, I always tend to talk about other things that what I planned to do. I think this is because we're both just going on with the flow of the conversation. But dont get me wrong though, we still talk to each other well and have a good conversation. We might have some awkward silence for a while but we both regain back our cheerful self. 

  • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
    I did well on speaking and actually not being awkward and getting along well with him. I didn't have the awkward pace were I'm trying to see what I can say. 

  • What specifically do you need to improve on? 
    Probably more topics to talk about. 


    I would have more pictures but I didn't know that when I shut my laptop, the conversation will end and close as well. Lo siento. 
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blog post #4

  • Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
    I spoke with Alice, and i spoke with her for a few reasons. For one i hadn't spoken to a girl native speaker yet and wanted to see if there was a similarity in different genders. She was also 18, so she was the youngest person i had talken to as of yet. 
    What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
  • I learned that she is from Mexico and she is chosing to learn english because she wants to come to the US to take up college education. She also wants to learn medication which is cool because i too want to take that up in college. 
  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?

    Well it helped me to see that learning different languages are helpful for future education and depending on the field you go in, it could be necessary

    What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
  • I was able to improve on my vocabulary and see what the younger people want from learning different languages. 
  • 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)

    Work a little more on conjugations. 
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¿Comó son las vidas de personas en otras países?

I spoke with an 18 year old boy from Mexico named Miguel. He had invited me to talk on Sharedtalk. I learned that he loves architecture, wants to visit New York and also loves Dragon Ball GT. He was very friendly and extremely enthusiastic; using a lot of smileys and talking avidly. He also wanted to prove that, unlike the movies, Mexicans do not wear festive looking sombreros and not everyone sells drugs. I learned that his city has a huge cathedral and is very quiet. 
At first it was difficult to get him to speak in complete Spanish; he loved to speak in Spanglish and I actually had to ask him if we could set aside about 10 minutes so I could ask him a few questions. I had to remind him again to speak in Spanish after my first question. 

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JHinton - Blog Post #4

For this blog post, I spoke with someone named Santiago, from Colombia. I actually enjoyed speaking to him. I felt really comfortable speaking with him, so I think that's why my Spanish was much better. We spoke a little bit about school, and then we spent time speaking about the culture in Colombia. 


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Conversation Fail_post cinco

These were the different conversations I had but ended in a fail. Sometimes talking to people on the site was not as easy as it looked.
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Human Trafficking Blog Post #2

Human Trafficking, a story that never ends…

 

Why does this continue? Will this ever end? Why does this happen? Is it for greed or do the Traffickers do this to feel superior? What are the reasons behind this? Is there a way to stop this?

         Human Trafficking is not just making people work in farms, orchards and factories; Human Trafficking puts women and children into prostitution. These people are sold into sex trafficking and their scared because they know that the place that they are being taken to is not going to make them happy.

         These children, women and men who become Victims are forced to work and are tortured if they slow down. They are even raped and treated like trash. This is beyond Human Understanding of why captors would do this. What is it that makes them think this?


         Human and Sex Trafficking is an underground trade. What I mean by that is that the underground is like a black market, it’s all done in secrecy. I found out that women that are aggressive towards their Captors are treated work while does their “work”. There is an interesting Blog Post I found that talks about not just women in Sex and Human Trafficking but men too. The comments show what people think about Human and Sex Trafficking. 
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Henninger Conversation, Post 4

Before

•  What will be your topic of conversation be? 

La tomitina y San fermines.


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

 - Do you know what La tomitina is?

 - Do you know what San fermines is?

 - Have you ever been to either of them?

 - What kind of people go?

 - What is the atmosphere of the event?


•  What are you looking forward to about this conversation? 

I'm looking forward to learning about these events from a local. It will be interesting because from what I know these are mostly tourists events. 


•  What are you nervous about? 

I'm nervous about finding someone who has attended these events or even knows what they are. 


After:

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

I spoke to Antonio, 19, from Spain. I didn't choose to talk to him. He started a conversation and it worked out. 


• What did you learn about them? 

I learned that he is a student and he knows of these events but has never attended. He wants to go but he can't afford it. 


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

It helped me because I learned about these events and Antonio also helped me with my grammar a little bit. It helped become a better spanish speaker in general. 


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

I learned about la tomitina and san fermines. 


• 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 should make sure I check my grammar before I send a message. I continue to make simple and silly  mistakes. 




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CSheridan;BlogPost #4

Blog Post #4
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Conversation Question: What is the daily life a person living in your country like?


Pre-Conversation:


•  What will be your topic of conversation be?

I will try to find out what a typical day in the life of a person living in their country is like. I will inquire about what time people usually go to work, eat lunch and dinner. I also want to know what people do on their weekends.

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

1. What time you wake up and you go to bed?

2. What time do you eat lunch?

3. When do you have work?

4. Do you go to church on Sundays?

5. What do you do for fun on the weekends?

6. How are the current economic problems affecting people you know?

•  What are you looking forward to about this conversation?

I am looking forward to having a long, sustained conversation because I have so many questions to get answered. I am also looking to share things about the United States, especially Philadelphia, with the person I talk to.

•  What are you nervous about?

I have gotten so used to sharedtalk that I am not nervous about anything. I am only feeling excited to get the conversation started because I have an interesting conversation question that I can't wait to get answered.

Blog Post 4-Education System in PR

​I wanted to know about Education system in Puerto Rico and how it differs from the United States. I had someone to talk to but when I started to talk to them they seemed uncomfortable and quickly ended our conversation. But this is what I found out....

The education system has 3 main levels Primary(elementary school),Secondary(intermediate and high school) and higher levels.Primary is grades 1-6 and High School is 7-12. The constitution of Puerto Rico is set up that everyone has the right to learn on the island and public without cost.The largest in Puerto Rico private college system is Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez which is in control of the Metropolitan University.

Blog Post 4


I spoke to the same person I talked to last time. I learned a few new ways to say goodbye in Spanish. I wanted to learn how to say goodbye in new ways just to expand my own vocabulary. This conversation was definitely much better than other ones.  I think I made my point pretty clear. I wish that I had asked him more about if there is a type of social divide due to the way one sys goodbye. 
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Blog Post #4

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


    I spoke with Melina in this conversation. I've talked with her before and decided to use this one.

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


    She has a cat, and she calls it dog. And her family calls it other names, so it must be a very confused cat.
  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?


    It worked out good, my goal was to talk about sports but this helped a bit. And was interesting.

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


    My goal was to talk about sports but I forgot I asked her that already. But my expectations were met because it was interesting an I used a bit of spanish I don't normally use.

  • 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


    I need to improve on constantly speaking spanish, this was one of the few times I didn't. But I decided to use this anyway.
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Blog Post #4

​My partner's name was Johnny from Colombia. We spoke in Spanish over video chat and he also spoke English very well, so if I had a question I would send it to him over a text chat. We did drills of conjugation and he also spoke to me about the culture in Colombia. I was having problems with saying things in the future tense when I would mean the past tense. I was happy because Johnny knew a lot of English and assisted me regularly. At some

What did you learn about your partner? 

I learned that Johnny lives in Colombia and is still in college studying computer engineering. He lives in a dorm and enjoys hanging out with his friends, hiking, playing guitar and drinking wine. Johnny also sent me a remake of the Black Eyed Peas song "I got A Feeling" it was really good, and I enjoyed listening to his music.

What did you learn from them?

I learned that a lot of the music that I listen to in America they listen to as well. The thing is that I think the music takes a little while longer to get to them. I also learned how to conjugate irregular verbs in the future, present and past. I also learned about the culture of Colombia, many of the people are huge fans of Shakira.

What did you learn about yourself?

I learned that when I begin to screw up a bit, I mess up things that I already know because I get nervous. I also learned that I need to relax and not take things so seriously when I'm speaking and if I make a mistake it's okay.

What were you surprised about?

I was surprised that we had such a long conversation but I was also glad that we got the opportunity to talk and that he agreed to help me out.

What are you proud of?

I'm proud that I was able to hold a conversation in Spanish for a good amount of time.

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Blogpost 4- Breaking up

Since last week I talked about marriage in Spain, now I will explore breakups. It was difficult explaining to people my topic because they all thought that I was asking them for a relationship. I did find two willing participants, one was Sandra maria from Columbia and Pablo from Chile. From these conversations I learned that men say in Chile "Terminamos porque no quiero hacerte" which means We are finished because  I don't want to hurt you. Another phrase that men say is "Quiero terminar contigo porque ahora te quiero como amiga", which means I want to terminate with you because right now i want to be friends. For women they say "Terminamos porque no quiero mas engaños" which means we are breaking up because you lie a lot. I thought the differences in reasons were interesting or perhaps Pablo experiences this a lot. 

I also learned that people typically date a lot before getting married. Also to get divorced it is very expensive, but it is not difficult to get one. If you want to know about Pablo or Sandra or even see what eles they said the conversation is below. Muchos Gracias!

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Blog Post 4- Dame tips por favor!!

Pre- Conversation:

What are you looking forward:
I am looking forward to just doings what I usually do: talking as naturally as I can.



Post Conversation:

So I spoke with a guy from Spain, named Javi.

He also recommended me to this site.
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Interrupting/Butting into a Conversation Politely

​So for our second to last week of blogs I deiced that I wanted to talk about how to Interrupt/butt into a conversation politely.  Obviously I know how to do this in english for the most part, with most conversations you just say something like excuse me and wait patiently for your turn to budge in.  I just wanted to make sure that it was the same way in spanish and also to find out if there are any other ways that we don't use in english.

As I have said in my other posts I interviewed my old Spanish teacher, Maestra Sandra again. 


I don't know as though I learned as much from this interview as I had in some of my past ones as I is very similar to how we do it in english, the most important way to make it sound polite is to make sure that you have an appropriate tone, for example you don't use the same tone with your friends as you would with your boss and so on.


You can find a link to how to do this here
Interview #4

Goldie Robins- #4

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! :)


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Blog #4 Moving On From Food

​Kleber and I's communication has been lagging a bit due to busy lives and he tends to not answer my questions all the time so we talk about whatever he responds to my emails with. Since it has been a short while since I emailed him from tonight, I've decided to kind of change the direction of our conversation. So after a few weeks of getting to know Kleber a bit, I finally asked him (for the second time) where he's from. He replied by saying Ecuador, so at that moment I decided that I wanted to ask him what is the culture of Ecuador and what is the life of a teen in Ecuador like. Sure my conversation topic could be googled but information is always better when it comes from a person who experiences that particular topic on a daily. I have yet to wait for his response but I'm actually fairly interested as to what he says. Maybe the teenager life is very active with outdoor activities and having fun. Or maybe they don't have much fun because they have to spend their free time assisting their families. Who knows, I can't wait to hear what life inEcuador is like and if it can relate to my life or not.
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