Saturday, April 30, 2022

BEGINNERS COURSE, SPRING 2022, CLASS 1

 We began by looking at the sounds in Spanish. 

The "r" sounds can be problematic. 

The rolled "r" is when the R is at the beginning of a word - Real

...or when it is a double R in the middle - Borracho. 



A video here with some of the other sounds of Spanish 


WE also learned some basic introductions....









PRE-INTERMEDIATE, SPRING 2022

 

Class 1

We listened to an interview with an actor, from p.3. Some vocab…

radioyentes – listeners (to a radio show)

Nada en absoluto – absolutely not

mensaje de texto – a text message

una cualidad – a quality (a characteristic)

(la calidad – quality (how good something is))

tu lugar favorito – your favourite place

encontrar a mi media naranja – to find my soulmate

cariñoso – affectionate

Some words that came up…

sencillo – simple

el éxito – success

mentiroso – liar

humilde - humble

Beginners 2 - class 8 (11/06/24)

We start the class with a couple of audio to review the physical descriptions. We also reviewed clothing vocabulary and learned colours. The...