Allie Wagner

I completely lost track of time this week. I had planned to do more lessons on Duolingo and look into some more vocab type words, but that completely slipped away from me. During the only time I worked on Duolingo this week I came to the conclusion that so far I am better at using context and piecing together what Spanish sentences say than actually making my own. In addition to that while I was on the bus going to golf I asked on of my teammates, who has taken Spanish at the school, what I should do next. She showed me a video on YouTube that sings the Spanish alphabet. I listened to the song multiple times and think that I am starting to catch on, at least a little bit.

After taking four years of French class I was really hoping that I would catch on to speaking Spanish quickly. That has proved to not be the case and the most important phrase that I need to know is: “no hablo Español.” This phrase will let people know that I do not know how to speak Spanish, even though I am trying I definitely would have difficulties having a conversation with someone in Spanish. Sometimes I even feel like the Duolingo owl is disappointed in me for how badly I am doing at this. Some things have been made easier by already knowing another langue. One of those things is distinguishing between the masculine and feminine versions of words. I do wish, however, that I could get myself to stop trying to pronounce things more "French."