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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2003-04-20 09:18 pm

foreing language ed for teenyboppers

[livejournal.com profile] southpaw526: if parents want their kids to learn some Spanish, you can tutor!
me: hee
me: everyone, repeat after me. 'whenever, wherever, we're meant to be together--' now how would shakira say that in SPANISH?

princesse: (everyone repeat after me, SHE IS WEARING A SHIRT WITH BLUE STRIPES AND A SKIRT WITH GREEEN POLKA DOTS)
naina: you don't learn the everyday stuff from the damned textbooks
princesse: this is the table of my uncle! oh yeah, bitch, well THIS is the refridgerator of my GRANDMA! ahem.
naina: elle est...something...un blouson(?) avec something bleu et un...something avec something something vert.

[identity profile] bookofjude.livejournal.com 2003-04-21 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Teenybopers is such a brilliant word. No hablo mucho en Espanol, y cuando hago: es mierda. ¿No?

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[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2003-04-21 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
i'm afraid i am unqualified to grade. i would call what i do with it 'reading,' for the most part, and not speaking, although i did finish a literature course last fall.