This week my primary focus was on architecture. My original question was on terminology used for architecture, but that had to be edited to better fit the requirements of the project. For this week, my focus is no one general things involving spanish architecture. By asking general questions about architecture, I felt that I would be able to earn more than I otherwise would have, if I chose to just learn about general architecture terms. For this week, I have prepared five questions that I'll use to answer my bigger question.
    ¿qué son la cuidad estructura en tú cuidad?
    ¿Cómo es la casas en tú cuidad como?
    ¿Veritana estructura?
    ¿Tradicional edificio estructura?
    ¿Interior de casa?

For this week my partner was Miguel, someone who I met through Livemocha. Me and my partner chose to do our communications via e-mail, as we saw it was the most convent way for both of us. My partner told me to censor out his e-mail when I told him I would be uploading the screenshots of our conversation. To respect him, and have him as someone for possible conversation with, I have upheld his request.

​This week I wanted to know more about how conversations work but I didn't want to go and ask another straight up question about the actual conversation, I wanted to ask about the people in the actual conversation.  This week I wanted to ask about how to listen politely.

This week I was able to go and talk to my old spanish teacher, Maestra Sandra, again since we both had an opening during this past week.

Questions

- ¿Cuales son algunos formas de escuchar cortésmente?

- ¿Hay algunos cosas que no son cortés cuando alguien le esta hablando?

- ¿Es difícil a escuchar cortésmente o es facil escuchar cortesmente?

I learned a few different things during this interview, one would be that it really doesn't seem to be that hard to listen politely unless you're in some kind of cramped space that doesn't allow you to move around.  Also I learned that it takes your whole body to fully engage the other person, nodding your head, responding, looking at the person, and quite obviously listening to them.

You can find examples of how to listen politely at the beginning of this page.

In this conversation  I talked to my mom about when we went to a feeding program. I did not learn anything about my mom but she did tell me that she liked that I learned how to make tortillas when we were there. This helped me reach my goal because I was able to talk about the chicken story, el cuento del pollo.   

Why are things the way they are? 

Conversation

Me: What does Music look like in Puerto Rico? 

Mom: Es como aquí pero casi no hay canciones en ingles 

Me: Why is the beat different from other spanish speaking places to puerto rican music? 

Mom: Porque cada lugar tinei el clase de música y toda son diferente 

Me: Why don't people in puerto rico like music from other countries? is because of the grammar or pronunciation? 

Mom: Porque como las canciones y el clase de música es different porque haci es como las personas en Puerto Rico se crio. 

Me: Why are things pronounced different? 

Mom: Porque aveces las palabras se use diferente en mucho lugares y tiene diferente significado

Me: Why are their the same words but different meaning. 

Mom: Porque las personas se crio different y hoeyendo la mia y pai hablando haci y ell ss acostrunbro

How do you anticipate your partner will respond to your questions? 

I think that she (they) will tell me it's just the way it is and how they were raised

What are you looking forward to about this conversation?

To understand why are the same words have different meaning depending where you go in the spanish world.

What are you nervous about? 

Saying things wrong in spanish or not knowing how to say some words or the meaning of some words.

Reflection questions

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

My mother and my grandmother because spanish is their main language and they have a lot of experience with spanish

• What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them? I learned that my grandmother knows no english what so ever and my mother knows just a little. I learned what i was asking them and why are things the way they are and said ect.

• How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal? It helped me stop being lazy and finally asking them the questions that i wanted to ask them so it helped me finally understand.

• What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? I finally understand why things are said the way they are and i understand why music is different and why people have their way of saying a word and others have their own way of saying it was just the way they were raised. 

• 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)r Saying words in spanish right and working on my accent.

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Preguntas

¿Cómo hago insultar personas, yo quiero aprender cómo a usa ironía y aprende cómo usar sufijos correcto en español?

 

¿Que tipo de limpieza expresión, tono y rapidez yo tengo quein yo insulto personas estar comico?

 

¿Cómo hago usa ironía para comedia?

 

¿Que son algunos chistes común que use ironía en un comico forma?

 

¿Es hay un especial forma ecribir plabras con sufijos? ¿Es hay un principio para sufijos?

 

 

 

Conversation

I'm Red, Partner is blue 

hola

hola :)

como estas puedo pedir tu algunos preguntas en cómo hago insultar personas, íronía y sufijos en español

 

pues es muy dificot por que  hay un montón de maneras de insultar una persona.

puedas dece mi algunos forma a insulta personas

pero por que ceres insulta una persona?

 

penso lo haría esta diversión a hace diversión de personas en español

pero eso es malo >:-)

lo es pero no cuido y yo uso les cuando personas deces insultas a me

Pues si quieres que te tiga las malas palpras?

palabras*

yo quieres solo chistes pero no cuido si tu diga mi palabras malas

no se tegon chistes :\ !

tu tienes malas palabras

no muchos. pero no te quiero decir, por que es malo

so

así

¿hola?

si?

no se mala palbras

perdon

puedas enseña me cómo usar ironía o sufijos

cuando estas ablando de una nena, usas la "a" como, "ella es bonita" y cuando estas ablando de una nene usas "o" el es bonito"

so tu cambias la letra passado de la palabra para un sufijo

o ironia

 

Hola

 

¿Hola como estas?

 

Muy bien que haces aprender sobre hoy

 

Yo quiero aprender sobre sufijos.

 

Puedo ayuda tu con que

 

¿Gracias es hay un reglas para aprender sufijos?

 

Sí en ingles hay es un raíz palabras para el sifijo en español lo es el mismo

 

¿Puedas usa un ejemplo de sufijos?

 

Sí, pero algunos sufijos cambia el sentido de la palabra todo. Algunos sufijos son –ado y ada es –ed in ingles, para –ly lo es –mente y para palabras que refera a algo menor son –ito, -ita, -cito, -illo, -zuelo. Estos son solo algunos de el sufijos pero son comun en espanol

 

¿Que es el otro sufijos?

 

Hay es mucho mas pero algunos cambia sentido de la palabra.

 

Oh gracias para su ayuda.