Friday, December 03, 2004

Lyrics

What do you think about this?...it´s one of my favorite songs and although for some it might be depressing for me it´s inspiring...Bonne nuit!!

Time
(Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour)

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Pl
ans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Thursday, December 02, 2004

French pronouns

Les Pronoms sujets

Singular Plural

1st person je I nous we

2nd person tu you vous you

3rd person il he,it ils they

elle she,it elles they

on one

Thursday, November 25, 2004

They say it gets easier....

eddiekar72

Good luck on your venture into the unkown realms of a new language. I hope this turns out to be an enrichful experience for you.

I was remembering a while ago that I heard somewhere that learning a third, fourth,... language is easier. Because of certain skills that you have already developed in the acquisition of your second language, the following languages will lay themselves out for you rather simply. of course, you will have to put effort into it, but it is more likely that you´ll find the language´s logic quickly.

You know?..., that could be another motive for your reserch on this assignment. Experiment the language on yourself always asking yourself -
In comparison to my second language acquisition, Does this third language seem easier or more difficult to me?
How am I processing information?
Am i unconsciounsly comparing French to English or Spanish? or

Are you doing it like me?
I aisolate the meanings and separate them from the words. This allows me to have access to the fundamental idea, feeling or notion of a sentence. As a result, I easily produce the idea, feeling or notion in any of my two languages. But then again, I´ve spoken both languages all of my life. i don´t have a conscious memory of learning a second language. Well, it´s only thought.

If indeed you decide to follow through on my proposal, I would really love to recieve your input on this learning expericence. You see, an important thing about being a language teacher is that you must know what your students are feeling when you are teaching to them. You must know what their frustration feels like, what their triumphs feel like, what the learning routine feels like. The only way to know this is by actually going through the experience.

This experience will thrust you into educational stratospheres which you probably at the moment are not aware of. Believe me when I say that this experience will not disperse itself into oblivion, but in its stead a stronger grasp will extend from within and merge awareness and higher conceptions providing a broader and endless vision of your craft when you are faced with the honorable task of unlocking wonderous things in the expanding minds of your aspiring disciples. :)

The more you open your persceptions to reality, the wider the scope of your vision.

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Tania: November 2004

Tania: November 2004: "I�m learning french

I´m excited...
becasue of school I must learn something new about a foreign language so I�m choosing french.... my first goal is to learn greetings and I expect to learn all of the greetings below by tomorrow.

Bonjour Salut Bonsoir

Formal, plural
ça va? Comment ça va? Commentallez-vouz?
ça va �a va bien ça va mal Pas mal Comme ci, Comme ça Je vais bien

Familiar, singular
ça va? Comment ça va? Comment vas-tu? ça roule? ça bouge?

Quoi de neuf?..... Rien de nouveau Pas grande chose

Au revoir...Salut...À bientôt À tout à l'heure...À la prochaine...À demain...
Bonne nuit...Adieu"

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Nacimiento

Miércoles, 17 de noviembre, nace este blog y todavia no se como usarlo...