A beginner´s guide to Spanish
Trip Start
Jan 28, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 18, 2008
Alicante,
Spain and Canary Islands
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
1. Get a lisp. Pretend you are the little girl in the Brady Bunch or Bugs Bunny.
2. Stick labels all over your apartment
3. Buy fruit and veges at the local market. We don´t actually know many of the food names, but we know how to say ´green thing, yellow thing, white thing and orange thing´, which pretty much covers all the items we need.
4. Read menu´s along the street (not that we can afford to eat there)
5. Buy tickets on public transport to places you have never heard of
6. Listen to game show hosts on late night TV
Bimbo bread...hmmm
. (We could actually answer one of the questions!)7. Speak bad Spanish with your Portuguese flatmate.
8. Eavesdrop on conversations in the street and guess the topic. I kept hearing ´pero´which I thought meant dog. It actually means ´but´. I also keep hearing ´paraguas´, which means ´umbrella´. I´m pretty sure I´ve got that wrong too.
9. Listen to Spanish FM. We know how to say ´Good Morning!´ I am sick of hearing Amy Winehouse though.
10. Count your push-ups in Spanish. It is pretty funny watching Cameron do this, because by the time he remembers the next number, his arms give way underneath him
