Spanish – Absolute Beginners
Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/languagecentre/courses/winter/courselist/spanish/
Se llama Kieran. Es de Inglaterra. (My name is Kieran. I am from England.)
Yup, that's me, an absolute beginner at learning Spanish.
I finally got my arse in gear to start learning Spanish after being frustrated at not knowing barely a word whilst on holiday in recent years. It's easy as anything to take up a language at Warwick because of the Warwick Learning Account making the course free for me and any other student or staff member.
The first lesson was fairly easy I guess, but I certainly found it harder than some (and hopefully easier than others). I can tell that I'm going to struggle in the coming weeks and months seeing as I've not done any kind of language learning since my bad attempt at scraping through GCSE French 11/12 years or so ago.
By the end of the first lesson, in theory we know quite a bit already, but it won't stick without a good bit of homework and plenty of work on my awful accent!
03 Oct 2005 22:29
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[Skip to the latest comment]Yay for Spanish! I wanted to take a course but didn't feel like getting up way early to queue for hours. By the way – you might frighten people talking about yourself in 3rd person :-)
03 Oct 2005, 23:06
Luke Parks
I think you might mean:
Anyway. ¡Mucha suerte!
03 Oct 2005, 23:08
Luke Parks
Or maybe even 'soy inglés.'
03 Oct 2005, 23:09
Told you I was a beginner :)
04 Oct 2005, 00:11
It's a good begin though. Could be a great song! Se llama Kieran. Es de Inglaterra. Trabaja en la universidad lalala... I'm tired of working :-(
04 Oct 2005, 00:26
Holly Cruise
Wait till Lisa and Mia get to hear of this. Spanish is practically the second language of the Powerblogger so you've made a wise choice senor Shaw.
Quiero dos cervezas, por favor.
04 Oct 2005, 00:28
Dos cervezas, señor Shaw, muchas gracias. Llueve y hace frío, er, n'est-ce pas?
04 Oct 2005, 01:00
I really do have a long way to go :(
If I can successfully order food and drink without sounding completely English by the end of the course, I'll be happy enough. Judging by the pace in the very first lesson (if I keep up and do my homework!), I could be doing a fair bit more.
¿Apenas dos cervezas? ¿Stella o fomenta? ¿Usted quisiera quizá una botella de vino con su cena?
Gotta love BabelFish
04 Oct 2005, 09:32
Luke Parks
Actually that's not too bad a translation. Although it uses 'tú' in one question and 'usted' in another which is slightly odd.
04 Oct 2005, 11:14
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