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​Goal of this conversation: Practice getting to know someone using spanish.

Questions to ask:

¿Cómo se llamas completo?

¿Cuántos años tienes?

¿De dónde eres?

¿De dónde está tu madre?

¿De dónde está tu padre?

¿Qué te gusta hacer?

¿Qué comida te gusta?

La Conversation Uno- Con Brianna Perrin (Transcript)

Yo- Hola Chica!¿Como estas?

Ella- Hola! Estoy bueno, ¿y tu?

Yo- Yo también.Tengo muchas preguntas personales para tu. ¿Esta bien?

Ella- Si,esta bien.

Yo-Primero, cómo se llamas completo?

Ella-Brianna Beverly Perrin

Yo-Esta bien. ¿Cuántos años tienes?

Ella-Yo tengo diecisiete años.

Yo-Bueno. ¿De dónde eres?

Ella- Yo soy de Puerto Rico, pero yo nací en Nueva Jersey y vivo en Filadelfia.

Yo-Esta bien. Yo nunca sé.¿De dónde está tu madre?

Ella-Sí. Mi madre es de origen hispano, mientras que mi padre es afroamericano.

Yo-Esta bien,esta bien. ¿Qué te gusta hacer?

Ella-Me gusta hacer muchas cosas. Depende del día y mi estado de ánimo. Pero me gusta mucho cantar, bailar, leer, escribir y dar largos paseos por el parque.

Yo-si, me gusta bailar tambien! ¿Qué comida te gusta?

Ella-Me encanta comer pastelillos de arroz con frijoles, tostones y Kit Kats.

Yo-jaja

Reflection:

I spoke with Brianna because she is a friend that I knew had grew up around spanish. Something new that I learned about her was that she is from Puerto Rico. Asking the questions I had prepared was kind of like a reminder of how to ask people about themselves and also how to tell people about myself. The more I practice the better I become, my goal is to just become better. I think I achieved my goal for this specific conversation. I learned more about Brianna. I need to work on making the conversation flow a little better rather than being more like an interview.

My goal for week 1 was to learn the correct order of a sentence. What goes where because I get confused and forget sometimes. 

I picked my friend, Isa because she is a native speaker. Below is a screen shot of our conversation that we had so I could further and better understand the correct order of a sentence. 

This helped because now I know I am typing and saying the Spanish correctly. I don't want to be in another country talking spanish incorrectly. This will also help me with my next couple weeks of goals.

What is negative space? 
Negative space are areas in your drawings that are not the drawing itself. It is basically the spaces that are excluded by the structure of the drawings. 

Explain how you find the negative space in your cut out and your stool drawing. 
In my cut out I find the negative space by cutting out the template and then imagine the parts that is not needed in the cut out. Basically you just separate the black and gray parts of the template. In the stool drawing, I first draw the whole picture and then erase the lines that intersects to make a silhouette. The areas that are not within the lines of my drawing is the negative space.

Why does it help an artist to see in negative space? 
The artist will see the outer structure of the drawing they made and enhance their skills by making the objects that draw more proportional and more realistic. The negative space also give the artist a sense of how much empty space is in his or her the actual drawing. 

Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings?
Knowing the negative space in your drawings enhance your drawings' angle (is there too much empty space does it look awkward?) and also their structure (is the stool's legs straight?).
 

• Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
  -I chose to speak with my friend Nicole from Dominican Republic because she doesn't live in United States and I wanted to know more about her country. 
• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
  -I learned that DR has a lot of cyclones, rain, and thunderstorms. I'm guessing it doesn't snow because during the winter, the temperature can reach up to 60 degree. Usually, in the U.S. the temperature would be in the 30's. 
• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
  -It helped me conjugate better and not hesitate so much. There were time where my sentence didn't sound right, but she corrected me. Because of that, I learned from my mistakes and I'm one step closer to understanding more spanish.
• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
  -I think I did well on asking a lot of questions ans sticking to one topic instead of going all over the place.
• 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)
  -Wrong sentence: "¿Pero no gusto que gente inventó acondicionadores de aire para los días calurosos?"
  -Right sentence: Pero no le gusta que alguien inventó el aire acondicionado?

    Para mi Español tres benchmark, yo asignada un proyecto adónde yo hablar con un natal Español dora. Para el proyecto, yo trabajo con website livemocha.com, adónde contactar un natal dora. ésta semana, la pregunta es "How to know when to use accents when writing the language."

Antes la pregunta es respuesta, yo tener un compañero a hacer conversación con. Para ésta, yo registrar un compañero en livemocha.com. Mi compañero en conversación es a niña de nombre Yuna-Chan. Yuna-Chan es un natal español dora quién España. Nosotros decidir a enseñar una otro natal lengua. En canje para saber Español, mi compañero voluntad Ingles.  

Me: The first question is just about when I should use accents when writing Spanish.
Yuna-Chan: could it be, for accents, you mean acentos?
Me: Sí, acentos. Mi Español es maso o menos, ahí es pieza para mejora.
Yuna-Chan: I get it now, I get it haha :D
I can explain that to you. ^^ But I'm more comfortable explaining it in Spanish, so if you don't mind.. sorry >_<

En palabras agudas (con la sílaba tónica al final de la palabra), se acentúan las palabras que acaban en vocal, vocal+n, vocal+s. Ejemplo: mamá, camión, detrás.
En palabras llanas (penúltima sílaba tónica), se acentúan las palabras que NO acaban en vocal, vocal+n, vocal+s.
Las palabras esdrújulas (antepenúltima sílaba tónica) se acentúan siempre. Ejemplo: álgebra, sábana.

Estas reglas pueden variar, debido a hiatos (vocales seguidas en diferentes sílabas, para separarlas hay que acentuar, como por ejemplo-> vacía)  y a acentos diacríticos (para distinguir unas palabras de otras, como más y mas).
Hope this helped you!(:

Me: Ah, tan hacer acentos ayudar en creación el consejo más distinguido?


And that was the conversation. Though I did learn a lot from this girl, she unfortunately never replied back to my other message, and I'm suspecting I'm going to have to find another partner for this week's question.

​My goal is to learn moderate insults. I wanted this as a goal in case I was in a foreign country and I was confronted by an unwanted person. 

I chose my friend Maria because Spanish is her first language. I thought that if I could learn from a native speaker, my insults could be slang instead of formal.

Well, since she's my friend, there wasn't much to gain from the conversation that I already don't know.

It helped a lot because I've noticed I learn better when I'm orally taught by a friend.

When I was being taught different moderate insults, I needed help spelling and saying the phrases in an angry voice. I had explained that I can say Spanish in a monotone voice, but not in any other expressions.

I learned:
"Te puedes ir." - Go away.
"Vete no quiero hablar con tigo." - I don't want to talk to you.
"Porque me estas gritando." Why are you yelling?
"Porque estas en mi cara." - Why are you in my face.
"Estoy jugando." - I'm kidding.

It was fun. The project didnt take very long but I worked hard. The only problem I had was the file. I had some problems uploading and whatnot. You know technology. If I could do It again I would have taken a bit more time. 

Overall I did well on the project but the actual recording process was the hardest part. When you have different schedules you have to find a time to record together. This project was interesting and it was easy answering the questions.

I think it went pretty well. I like how we had to interview eachother and it was pretty cool. The part that I struggled with was reading some words so I kind of messed up alot. If I had to re-do this project I would probably have read over the paper way before recording so we wouldn't have to re-do it over and over. 

​I am proud of how I congregated the different verbs.  Something I had problems with was trying to put the sentences together to fit what I was saying in english.

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​I am proud of the way that me and my partner Dejah answered the questions and I'm proud of the final product. One of the main thing that I had trouble with is the pronunciations of the words and I kept stumbling when I was talking. If I could do this project over again, I would change the answers and the way the podcast was.

Here's a link to listen to the podcast: HERE

 I learned a lot about future tense. I also became a better actor. I think that I need to work on my speech. Next time i wish to work more with my partner.

I am proud of how quickly we recorded and how well our accents sounded. I had a hard time knowing which verbs to conjugate though and if I had to do this over I would fix that and spend more time adding more information into my answers

I'm proud of our unique questions in our podcast, I think we would be hired in a real life interview. We had a little bit of trouble following all the directions of the project. We didn't know we had to use the provided questions. I would make the podcast a little bit longer next time.


These are the answers to the regular questions.

Yo amo los animals y niños, y jugeos divertidos.

Yo soy un maestro, yo tengo cinco años de experiencia, y yo hablo español.

Los niños duermen a ocho.

Los niños salvan conmigo.

Yo trabajo bien con niños intelligentes.

No, yo trabajaré solo.

En cinco años yo trabajaré en Microsoft.

Yo trabajaré duro y largo cada dia.

Si, yo amaré a.

Yo conservaré la reglas de compania.

 

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What i am must proud of is the process that me and my partner used. WE got all the questions answered and we recorded really quick. We had trouble with the conjugating of the words. If i could do it again i would have three other people check my work before recording. 

During the project I was proud of the amount of spanish I knew but I didn't think I knew. I found my self looking for words on WordReference and I kept saying to myself "Wow I already knew that." I had trouble with the short amount of time I felt we had, like I would have much rather have had a rough draft due today, have people make edits, and then have a final due next like Monday or Thursday of next week. I feel like the only part that was a little bit difficult for me was translating certain adjectives. 

I'm proud of the fact that I've learned future tense. I have trouble with some pronunciation and I would change that if I could do it again. 

I'm very proud of how detailed all of our speech was. While not all of the parts were done on time, we put it together very well, and we spoke very clearly.