Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

We reviewed question words last week.  Rather than pre-learning for next week, take some time to do some vocab activities or other practice.  It's great to see how conversational ya'll are getting.  It's important to maintain practice and exposure!  Here's some resources for that:

Next class, we will:
  • review question words and practice basic questions and verbs
  • introduce adverbs of frequency to incorporate in questions and answers
  • start working on prepositions and places in a city 
Also, here's the conversation starters I keep forgetting to bring!  

Thursday, April 13, 2017

On Wednesday, April 26, we will meet at the Pupuseria on Livernois in Southwest Detroit to order food.  Continue practicing foods (pictures below).  Also, here are some useful restaurant phrases

  • Bebidas- drinks
  • Comidas- foods
  • postres-sweets
  • aperativos- appetizers
  • entradas- entres
  • desayuno-breakfast
  • almuerzo-lunch
  • cena-dinner 
  • ¿Qué quiere(s)/desea(s)?-What would you like (you could add comer or beber to the question)
    • Yo quiero/deseo  or me gustaría...- I would like...
  • ¿Me trae...? or ¿Me puede traer...?- Can you bring me...?
  • ¿Algo más?- anything else?
  • ¿Qué lleva...?- What´s in...?
  • Pásame...por favor- pass me...please 
  • La cuenta, por favor- the bill please
  • propina- tip 
  • separado/a parte- separate bills
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Image result for la comida
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We will also do some basic conversation starters.  Below is a chart with different question words.  If you have time, create some questions to ask each other 
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Monday, March 6, 2017

Along with practicing pronunciation and other vocab from past weeks, feel free to practice conjugation here:
https://conjuguemos.com/verb/133#
http://www.spanishdict.com/topics/practice/36

Additionally, here is some practice for pronunciation (there are tutorials listed too)! http://studyspanish.com/pronunciation

Thursday, January 19, 2017

In addition to clothing, colors, and prices review, we'll be working on prepositions and giving directions. Preview the vocabulary with this rhyme here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eYeqUetm6fY

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Next class will be January 11!  I emailed you practice for clothing.  You can also get a head start on colors here:
https://rockalingua.com/games/colors
http://www.spanishspanish.com/colors/color_menu.html

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Due to people being out of town, we will have two classes in a row.  Our next class will now be Wednesday, December 14 from 6:30-8 at the Repair the World workshop in Southwest Detroit.  Last week, we reviewed letters, numbers, time, and basic questions.  We also practiced new verbs with a few conversation phrases.

  • ¿Qué te gusta hacer en tu tiempo libre? (what do you like to do in your free time) or ¿Qué le gusta hacer en su tiempo libre? (formal)
    • Me gusta...(add a verb)
  • For discussing regular actions you do, you drop the ar, er, or ir at the end of a verb and add an o.  So, for aprender which means to learn, you would say yo aprendo
Below are the verbs we were practicing with!
You can also practice verbs here (though the lists may not be the same): http://www.sporcle.com/games/druhutch/clic-con-el-boton