Science Leadership Academy

Learn • Create • Lead

Spanish 3 - Gierke

Create a post

Public Feed

Conversation 5

Posted by Marley Utzig in SP3-005 on
First Week:

Partners Name:

City y Country:

 

Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner. What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?



I spoke too two different guys they both messaged me. I learned more about music, I had really wanted to learn more about the music of different cultures and I was finally able to learn this from Nicholas who told me about Folk Music in Argentina. I also talked to Sonador and he was telling me about what he was doing, cooking, and we ended up talking about food and what our favorite food was and such which was cool and chill. I learned from him how to say pasta in spanish which is my favorite food and I never knew how to say it. 

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


These conversations helped me in two different ways, the first was my general goal of speaking just in a normal confortable conversation. This was accomplished in the conversation about food, I was not nervous or thinking to much about what to say I just had to look up words of certain food in spanish, but other then that it was a good conversation. My goal for the conversations over all was about music. I wanted to know what type of music people listened too but also the cultural music from their country. Nicholas talked about folk music in Argentina which I had never heard about before, so I got both of my goals done in these conversations.

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

I think I was talking more and talking about myself, which I had discovered I needed to do, more then just asking questions to move the conversation along. I think these were my best conversations I was more comfortable talking to them in spanish. 

 

Screen Shot 2012-05-14 at 9.03.07 AM
Screen Shot 2012-05-14 at 9.23.00 AM
Be the first to comment

La Tomatina- Blog 4

Posted by Jennifer Wright in SP3-005 on

I wish to speak to someone about La Tomatina. Mostly everyone I talk to is from Spain, so I want to ask someone about this.


Mis preguntas son 

¿Tú sabes sobre "la tomatina"?

¿Qué tipo la gente assiste?

¿Tú pagas asistir?


I think La Tomatina sounds so amazing so I'm excited to hear about it from natives. 


I'm not really nervous about anything, the people are not intimidating.


I chose to speak with Jeff who is from Spain and is 20 years old. This was the first time I had spoken with him.


This interaction helped me toward my personal goals because I really just want to feel comfortable conversationally speaking and a topic about something they experience falls within that. 


I spoke with Jeff for a long time, but I include the best piece of our conversation

Screen Shot 2012-05-16 at 11.04.32 AM
Be the first to comment

Blog #4

Posted by Chelsea Smith in SP3-005 on
  • Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner

    I spoke with Looghan de Rubens from Mexico.
  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

    While talking to this guy he spoke in english to help practice his english. He also told me a little bit about himself, for example he worked in an office. 
  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?

    In general my goal was to enhance my spanish and be able to hold a conversation with someone. The more I chat with these people the closer I think I am to this goal. 
  • 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)

    Something I have done well that I continue to do is keep a conversation going as well as being able to interact more with the person I am having a conversation with. I had more with this person but something happened with my computer and I lost the other conversation me and this person had, but I uploaded everything that I do have.
Screen Shot 2012-05-16 at 12.39.39 PM
Be the first to comment

Bloggy Thingy

Posted by Sergey Kuznetsov in SP3-005 on

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

I talked to a Charles in my conversation, and obviously I chose him because he responded.

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

I learned that he loves anime, and speaks English pretty darn well.

 

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

He is the first one to correct me, so it helped me in more then one way!

·       What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
Since my goal was to learn about him and life there, I’d say that this Dominican republic guy was pretty helpful!

Screen Shot 2012-05-16 at 11.24.17 AM
Screen Shot 2012-05-16 at 11.24.23 AM
1 Comment...

La Conversation Numero Cuatro

Posted by Symone Smith in SP3-005 on

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?


Transcript:

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.

Be the first to comment

Yang- Conversacíon #4

Posted by Allen Yang in SP3-005 on
  • 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. 
Shot 2012-05-16 at 11.43.39 AM
Shot 2012-05-16 at 11.43.56 AM
Be the first to comment

Msanders Blogpost 5

Posted by Michael Sanders in SP3-005 on
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.

Screen Shot 2012-05-15 at 9.44.21 PM
Screen Shot 2012-05-15 at 9.44.33 PM
Screen Shot 2012-05-15 at 9.44.40 PM
Be the first to comment

Blog #4

Posted by Pauline Garcia in SP3-005 on
  • 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. 
Jonathan Flores
3 Comments...

blog post #4

Posted by Daniel Wirt in SP3-005 on
  • 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. 
Screen Shot 2012-05-15 at 10.13.39 PM
Screen Shot 2012-05-15 at 10.26.25 PM
Be the first to comment

¿Comó son las vidas de personas en otras países?

Posted by Sabrina Stewart-McDonald in SP3-005 on
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. 

Screen Shot 2012-05-15 at 8.58.58 PM
Screen Shot 2012-05-15 at 8.59.13 PM
Screen Shot 2012-05-15 at 8.59.32 PM
5 Comments...