Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Learning another language is exhausting!!

It takes all our conscious effort to listen for words/phrases that we are familiar with to gain an understanding.

Our teachers speak almost totally in Spanish - don't understand every word, but we generally get the message. Sometimes with my communication practice teacher, I just have to say - 'No entiendo' - and leave it at that.  Because we are out places, there's lots of pointing - and telling us Spanish words for things.  Today we went to San Pedro market - a local market area.




 I managed to buy some fruit and flowers to bring home - and we all enjoyed a juice.  It's 2 full hours of talking and thinking in Spanish - even in a taxi back to school, they are still communicating with us - asking us questions, going back over things they have told us during the morning, quizzing us on our vocab.  Exhausting!!!

Tonight we joined other language students for a cooking class.  Turned out to be more of a social get together - where we all pitched in with the preparation, than a cooking lesson.  But we all enjoyed Lomo Saltado afterwards.

Tomorrow we're off to a museum with our communication teachers.

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