Hola Abuelita-Personal Narrative

I would struggle with mishearing words, forgetting tenses and verb meanings. This made Spanish stressful, and my teacher’s advice was to study more, but I felt I could not do it. I tried my best on every assignment, and hoped for the best. Luckily, I passed the class with a B, but I learned afterwards that B could have been A if I actually tried new methods or even went to see the counselor. I still look regret not pushing myself, but I remember I was not the only one.

In high school I spent time in France after completing my required classes in French. Once I returned home I rarely ever spoke it again. I regret that I have lost that language. My son does attend preschool Spanish, but I will push to keep him exposed to the Spanish culture and language as he gets

I eventually let him know that I had a serious problem with learning Spanish from our teacher and if I didn’t get I was going to fail. My biggest problems were the eighteen different conjugations we had to use and how to structure a sentence. There are four present tense, four past tense, three futures, four conditionals, one simple, and three preterite tenses. He first taught me how to use all of the conjugations because without those I could never learn how to structure a sentence appropriately. Once he taught me how to structure a sentence I never felt so confident in my ability to speak Spanish.

The fourth advantage of learning Spanish is that, it gives space for expansion and promotions for people at work. Most jobs require that one has at least more than one main language. It gives one opportunities to work in other countries. Being posted to a country like Spain to work would be a wonderful idea for anyone. It would bring about more profits because of language proficiency in Spanish. This is a language that if not so many people at work know it well, then one should grab the opportunity and learn it for the purpose of advancing at work.

During high school, I put lots of effort into learning Spanish. I took three years of Spanish in high school, then stopped and began pursuing it on my own, studying books, participating in Spanish - English language exchanges with native speakers and even practicing with the line cooks in the restaurant I would work in every summer. Slowly, I became more and more proficient. Half the Latinos I talk to tell me my Spanish is perfect,

Not being able to communicate with someone who is new to the family was extremely difficult, but when I heard my Uncle Gerardo speaking in Spanish I instantly knew I had to learn the language. From then on him and I exchanged small lessons on our primary languages with each other. We began with the basics- uno a diez (one to ten), and then moved onto more difficult topics. By the time I entered middle school I was beyond excited to finally be able to take a Spanish class. Halfway through the year I realized something extraordinary, I was passing the class with an impressive grade and could understand much more Spanish, but I also understood so much more about the culture. This is about the time that I became obsessed with learning how people in other cultures live- what do they eat, what do they wear, do they go to school, how many people are in the average family? And the questions did not stop there. I have fallen in love with places I have never even seen with my own two

It was nearing the end of the second day, and I was still with Astraia, she wasn’t exceedingly interested in the craft and just wanted to talk so I listened. She told me about her life, a tragedy, one only hears about in the news, but never see. I learned how she lived with her grandmother and had lost her mother due to a heroin overdose. Her grandfather had passed away and her father was never in the picture so it was just her and her grandmother. They lived in a cramped one bedroom house together, but had lost power earlier in the week. I thought she was talking about the storm that had, taken trees, power lines, whatever was standing, down in its wake, but her grandmother told her it wouldn't be coming back on. I was speechless you hear

“When I was a little kid I had a good friend who lived down the road from me. Her name was Aria Robin Hunter. I always thought it was cool she had two first names but she thought it was bothersome since she had to explain it to everyone. Aria Robin was always a very creative girl, even for a kid, she seemed to have all these never ending ideas. She was perfectly fine with being left to her thoughts even when it was because all the other kids thought she was weird. She never minded them when they saw her creations as strange alien things. All she said to the boy who told her an animal she drew was strange looking was that he simply hadn’t seen one before. She didn’t seem odd to me when we were little but I began to see her differently as we

One of the reasons why Spanish was difficult was because it was a lot different than english. For example,things like the verb endings and the masculine,feminine,and neutral types of words made it difficult to learn for me.My memory did not help either because it is appalling.Also,I was not the most dedicated student as I fell asleep often,never studied,and sometimes forgot to do homework.

From a young age, I needed to fight to comprehend English. Which later in my life it would help me transition myself into a new person. It was not an easy path, having to guess what the speech therapy wanted me to do. Only thing that ever helped me to understand was pictures on a block. After that whole experience, it helped me realized that learning English would mean success in the future. But it was also holding me down during the elementary years. Being forced to take the ELDA test until my junior year of high school. Being tested over listening, reading, writing, and speaking for about four hours was probably the worst thing that I ever experience since it was basically the same format for every year. But it helped me to know that I believed

Spanish class has now become a mandatory part of being a high schooler. Sadly, it has not been particularly successful due to the fact that most kids don’t utilize the information causing the course to just be a big waste of time; time that could be spent in other more essential subjects such as English, Math and Science. But not only would this be of interest for the students, but the school as a whole as well because it would save tons of money. Ultimately, this adjustment would help everyone and should be put in place in all high schools.

The two subjects I have had trouble with in school have been Spanish and English. It comes to a surprise to many people that I struggle in Spanish given the fact that I'm Hispanic. But people don't realize how difficult it is to learn two languages at once. During my freshman year in high school when I first started taking Spanish my grammar was really bad.. One factor that contributed to my difficulty in Spanish was the fact that I never had to write in Spanish until I got to high school . I could speak Spanish efficiently because I was raised in a Spanish speaking family. But I never knew how to spell most words because I never had to spell them. So when I took Spanish I made many errors like not putting an accent in the right place, or misspelling

As a little girl in preschool, I was constantly getting in trouble for talking. The teacher would move me away from my friends, but I would end up making new friends and getting in trouble all over again. I was the type who could talk to anyone. I was not afraid of asking questions or starting conversations. Even language barriers were not a problem for me. In kindergarten, there was a boy who sat next to me in class. He did not speak any English and I did not speak any Spanish but that could not stop me. Every day I would go home and ask my mom "What does this mean" or " How do you say this?" I loved meeting new people and no obstacle could stand in my way from doing just that. Since I had such an interest in Spanish, my mother enrolled me in the dual language program when I entered the first grade. I struggled at the beginning only knowing a few Spanish phrases but I caught on very quickly. By wintertime the mothers of the other children were not only surprised that I was speaking Spanish but I had the other kids speaking English.

“Come on, let's go,” said Kathie. “No, we can just sleep here in the park, behind the bushes. Did you bring our sleeping bags?” I said sarcastically. “Em, come on, seriously,” said Katherine. “I'm not joking anymore.” “Ok, fine. Just wait,” I said, trying to peer over the bushes. “Hey! Kathie, look there's a shoe over there.” “Who cares? Someone probably dropped it,” she replied. “Yeah, I'm just gonna leave my shoe behind the bushes,” I responded smartly. As I advanced on the bush, I gasped. Suddenly unable to find my voice, I spoke “K-Kathie…,” “Yeah?” she called out. “C-can you come over here?” I stammered. She slowly walked over, approaching the bush, I heard her gasp quietly. We stayed there a minute or two listening to our heavy breaths.

Throughout my sophomore year of highschool I had a hard time in Spanish and faced many challenges all year. About two weeks into the school year, there was an issue with my teacher and she was forced into retirement. This left myself and the rest of class with no teacher for over a month. Learning a new language was not the easiest thing for me and I could feel myself moving more behind the longer I went without a teacher. I had three more Spanish teachers that year making it harder to get into a routine to succeed in that class. By the end of the school I had to make the decision of whether or not I wanted to move on to the next level of Spanish. I felt that if I continued I would be setting myself up for failure in the language because of