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Objetivos que hice (5):
Michelle Torrelli me está ayudando a alcanzar mis metas. Michelle habla con fluidez el español. Vamos a video chat una vez por semana durante cinco semanas con el fin de cumplir con mis metas.
Week #1) I want to focus on clothing. In this first conversation, I want to focus on being able to recognize different articles in clothing and able to say them in Spanish. I also want to be able to compliment on clothing that I like.
Week #2) I want to learn how to tell other people where I am or where I was, using past and present tenses. I also want to describe the places I’ve been.
Week #3) For week #3, I want to focus on talking about emotions. On top of that, I want to be able to describe why I feel that way.
Week #4) For week #4, I want to talk about food! Food is an interest of mine and would like to expand my Spanish speaking on it.
Week #5) I want to work on completing sentences. Not just any sentences, detailed sentences where I describe everything I’ve learned so far.

Pre Conversation
1.¿Cuál es tu tema de conversación?
Mi tema de conversación para una semana se va a centrar en la ropa. Quiero reconocer artículo diferente de la ropa. Quiero felicitar a la ropa que me gusta.
What are five questions related to your conversation goal that you can think of ahead of time to ask your partner?
Five questions that I am going to ask Michelle are:
-¿Qué es una buena de complementar la ropa de una persona?
-¿Me puede dar un vocabulario para la ropa?
-¿Cómo se utiliza el tiempo pasado?
-¿Qué ropa te pones?
-¿Qué ropa usa la gente en la Argentina? (Michelle originates from Argentina)
3.How do you anticipate your partner will respond to these questions?
I anticipate that Michelle will know the answers to all of these questions. She will defiantly be able to give me some vocabulary. I think that these questions are going to be good conversation starters and will enable the conversation to go really smoothly for the five minutes.
4.What are you looking forward to about this conversation?
I really am looking forward to having a full on conversation in Spanish with someone who is fluent in the language. I’m also looking forward to learning some new vocabulary. I’m curious to know what kind of clothing they wear in Argentina as well.
5.What are you nervous about?
I’m not as nervous as I would be if I was to chat with a stranger. Since Michelle is my friend, I know she will be able to help me and I shouldn’t be too nervous. I’m a little about not being able to keep up with the conversation or not knowing what she is saying. But I know Michelle will help me if I get stuck and won’t get irritated with me like maybe someone over the internet would.

Post Conversation
Post-Conversación
Michelle Torelli’s nationality is Argentine.
Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
I spoke with Michelle Torelli. I chose to speak with her because she is one of my good friends and I know she will be able to help me out with my Spanish goals. I also know that she will be patient with me.
What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
I didn’t necessarily learn anything about Michelle because I’ve known her for three years now. I learned from her, new vocabulary, what they wear in argentina, and how to compliment on clothing,
How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?
This interaction helped me move towards achieving my goals because I learned new vocabulary. Michelle also answered all my questions. So now I can look back on this video and reflect on what she said, I can always go back and recap.
-What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
I did well with understanding what she was saying. I also did well with learning the new vocabulary and asking her the questions.
-What specifically do you need to improve on?
I need to improve on my accent. At times, Michelle could not understand what I was saying.

Pre-Conversation

• The five questions that I plan to ask are:

1. Why do you want to learn English?
2. What are sports like in (the country)?
3. Do you play any sports?
4. Do they play American football?
5. What do you think is a funny sport to watch?

• I expect my partner to find the questions that I am going to ask interesting. I plan to make the chat as friendly as possible, so that my partner will not feel uncomfortable.
• I am looking forward to learning about another person's culture. The reason is because I enjoy learning about foreign cultures. It is interesting to compare my culture with theirs'.
• I am nervous that my partner will not be friendly. I hope that they do not say anything rude to me.

Post-Conversation

• I spoke with Cindy because I thought that her name sounded friendly. She was also the only person that actually accepted my chat request.
• I learned that they don't like sports and that they think learning English is difficult. I learned that the main sports played in Colombia differ from the main sports played in the United States. American sports like baseball aren't as common in Colombia.
• This interaction helped me to move towards my goal of becoming more fluent in Spanish by forcing me to speak with a native Spanish speaker. Talking to my partner provided me with a lot of practice writing in Spanish.
• I did well keeping the conversation with my partner going. I thought that the chat would be quite dry, but we actually had a good conversation.
• I need to improve on using correct grammar in Spanish. I would start sentences with lowercase letters and occasionally forget to end sentences with punctuation marks. If I were to do it again, I would have wrote more properly.

My goal for week one was to get a feel for the type of people on sharedtalk.com and to just keep the conversations basics and relaxed. I plan on coming up with deeper questions and hopefully finding someone I can talk to regularly and learn from. Some of the questions I want to begin to ask are the differences in education or schooling in different areas. I also want to question the different daily habits or usual customs of people. I would like to discuss  the different things that others might find weird about America and clarify things. 

My native spanish speaker is my mom. Over the summer we went to Guatemala with a group and visited different places. I thought that it would be a good idea to talk about the experience with my mom in Spanish because I might go back next summer and it would be nice to be able to talk about my past experiences while I am down there. Sense this is the first conversation I decided to talk about the trip as a whole and then in later conversations talk about specific places. Sense we would be talking about the trip as a whole I decided to ask my mom what her favorite part was, "que fue lo que te gustó más?" and have what my favorite part was ready, "Toda la esperanza que tenian aunque vivian en mucha pobreza?".

I chose my mom because I knew that she had a good spanish background because she grow up in El Salvador and would like to use her Spanish more often. One thing I learned about my mom is how she likes to met different people and she thinks that in the United States we don't rely on people as much as they do in Guatemala. This conversation helped me reach my goal because I was able to talk about my favorite part and about how the two places are different.       

My goal for week one was to learn a little bit about sarcasm in spanish and I spoke to a man named juan gonzalez who helped me a little. Although we did not talk much he taught me a little and this is what I have so far  

Interview:

¿Cuál es tu nombre?  

: Mi nombre Javier. Javier Moya. 

¿En qué ciudad vive?

: Vivo en Caracas. Caracas, Venezuela.

¿Cuál es tu color favorito?

: Mi color favorito es el rosa.

¿Cuál es tu deporte favorito?

:practico polo acuatico , artes marciales mixtas y ajedrez. creo q mi favorito es el MMA

¿Tiene alguna habilidad?

:soy muy bueno en los deportes

¿Tiene hermanos? ¿Cuántos?

:tengo una hermana mayor

¿Cuál es su trabajo?

:no trabajo

- ¿Cuáles son las tres cosas que los padres esperan de sus hijos cuando crezcan?

:normalmente siempre esperan que estudien, tengan buena conducta y formen su propia familia

- ¿Cuáles son los tres problemas crecientes en la que viven? 

:los principales problemas son la delincuencia,el desempleo y la inflacion

he corrected my question: cuales son  los tres principales problemas de su sociedad

- ¿Cómo es el comportamiento de los niños de su

 generación diferentes a los hijos de la nueva generación?

: He responded in english… They have sex, do drugs, party, and drink. When he was younger, he never did any of that.

I learned:

I learned a few slang terms, q is the same thing as saying que. Ksas is the same thing as saying casa. 

I compared parts of our lives, we have the same values, but parents values there are revolved more around money. Everything seems the same. He doesn't have a job though, so I wonder how he survives. Where he lives people lose their virginity at age 20 or older. But recently teenagers have been having babies and he finds it weird. He said it's hard trying to go to a university full time and hopefully work. People become really stressed and rarely have time for anything. he makes about 50-60 bucks a day off of playing poker, but that's his only income. LIfe their doesn't sound too different for life for some people in America. 

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• Post-Conversation

·       I spoke with 2 persons originating from Spain on the language learning website. One named Karl Relher and the other named David Suarez.

·       I haven’t asked so many questions about the person’s life rather than the language. I focused on learning how to say a few quality jokes in Spanish as well as learn the types of jokes are used.

·       This conversation benefited me in many ways. I tended to think about what type of conversation I will most likely have in the future and humor is my field of interest. Knowing jokes in Spanish will be an icebreaker for meeting new people.

·       I did not think I would find quality jokes from these conversations but they turned out to be pretty funny.

·       I would need to improve on asking what I want to know with proper grammar. It seems that many of the people were confused of what I was asking for. Conversation Partners: