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Spanish 2, 2nd Period Monday
El took a sip from his mug and looked out at his small class. "Buenos dias, mis estudiantes. //I hope you had a good weekend. Welcome to the second Spanish class.//"
He walked around to the front of the desk and leaned against it. "Now, I would like to apologize at the beginning of class for something. I have never taught a foreign language before, and I fear that I may not be particularly adept at it. If there's anything you don't understand, please come talk to me about it."
"Today, we'll be talking about the present tense. What you are doing right now. To start with, I'll put up three basic verbs."
He opened up a black dry-erase pen and wrote them on the board:
"Hablar" "Comer" "Vivir"
"Now, these words mean "To speak, to eat, and to live," respectively. Each verb in spanish has one of three endings. Either "-ar", "-er", or "-ir" You conjugate the verbs depending on which ending it is and which tense you have."
El continued to lecture on the conjugation of present tense verbs.
"Now, the next question is, obviously, what do you mean by "first person", "first person plural", "second person", "second person plural", etc?"
El reached down behind the desk and pulled out a guitar case. With great deliberation, he snapped open the latches and pulled out a black acoustic guitar.
"Well, I'm quite glad you asked."
He plucked a note and started singing.
Some of you my ask who these persons are, y what they have to do with us.
They’re our friends, and believe me, they are from anonymous.
When you say “I”, you’re speaking in First.
Which, in my opinion, is hardly the worst.
Of course, it must be understood that that is the singular form. Me, myself, and I alone.
Singular form never has any friends who will phone.
In the Spanish, this is “Yo”.
Put the plural form, with all of us and we together, is “Nosotros”.
Very different from it’s second person plural, vosotros.
A word is not often found outside of Spain,
Although I feel learning it will not cause you too much pain.
Then comes its singular form, tu.
Meaning one and only you.
Finally we have the third person, in all its forms.
He eats, she lives, they talk. But these are people, not worms.
Él, ella, ellos, ellas. All of them refer to people other than me and you.
Masculine or feminine, singular or plural. Don’t you think they’re all important too?”
El stopped playing and coughed. “Well, something to that effect. If you want, why don’t you all try to come up with your own song about the present tense? I'll accompany you on my guitar. Oh, and on your way out, be sure to pick up a vocab sheet and study it for next week. We're starting on basic stuff that is essential to getting by."
[[Sorry it’s up so late. I wasted God knows how much time trying to write the song. So I’m going to make all of you do it! HAHAHAHAHAHA!]]
He walked around to the front of the desk and leaned against it. "Now, I would like to apologize at the beginning of class for something. I have never taught a foreign language before, and I fear that I may not be particularly adept at it. If there's anything you don't understand, please come talk to me about it."
"Today, we'll be talking about the present tense. What you are doing right now. To start with, I'll put up three basic verbs."
He opened up a black dry-erase pen and wrote them on the board:
"Hablar" "Comer" "Vivir"
"Now, these words mean "To speak, to eat, and to live," respectively. Each verb in spanish has one of three endings. Either "-ar", "-er", or "-ir" You conjugate the verbs depending on which ending it is and which tense you have."
El continued to lecture on the conjugation of present tense verbs.
"Now, the next question is, obviously, what do you mean by "first person", "first person plural", "second person", "second person plural", etc?"
El reached down behind the desk and pulled out a guitar case. With great deliberation, he snapped open the latches and pulled out a black acoustic guitar.
"Well, I'm quite glad you asked."
He plucked a note and started singing.
Some of you my ask who these persons are, y what they have to do with us.
They’re our friends, and believe me, they are from anonymous.
When you say “I”, you’re speaking in First.
Which, in my opinion, is hardly the worst.
Of course, it must be understood that that is the singular form. Me, myself, and I alone.
Singular form never has any friends who will phone.
In the Spanish, this is “Yo”.
Put the plural form, with all of us and we together, is “Nosotros”.
Very different from it’s second person plural, vosotros.
A word is not often found outside of Spain,
Although I feel learning it will not cause you too much pain.
Then comes its singular form, tu.
Meaning one and only you.
Finally we have the third person, in all its forms.
He eats, she lives, they talk. But these are people, not worms.
Él, ella, ellos, ellas. All of them refer to people other than me and you.
Masculine or feminine, singular or plural. Don’t you think they’re all important too?”
El stopped playing and coughed. “Well, something to that effect. If you want, why don’t you all try to come up with your own song about the present tense? I'll accompany you on my guitar. Oh, and on your way out, be sure to pick up a vocab sheet and study it for next week. We're starting on basic stuff that is essential to getting by."
[[Sorry it’s up so late. I wasted God knows how much time trying to write the song. So I’m going to make all of you do it! HAHAHAHAHAHA!]]
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