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Throughout the eight units of this course, I learned quite a bit. Not only did I learn about those eight different topics, such as, school, family, and food, I learned how to express needs and wants in Spanish relating to those topics. I can talk about things like my daily schedule, how I get ready for school in the mornings, and the time frame in which those events occur. I also learned how to find a place to live in Spain, like an apartment or a house, and that they can be found in advertisements, the internet, and other sources. I can speak about what supplies are needed for cleaning, as well as who to go to for electrical or mechanical problems. While I learned a lot about many different topics, the most important thing I learned that I can now express in Spanish is information or stories from the past. Because I learned about the imperfect and preterite tenses, I can talk about events that occurred in the past, which helped me communicate a lot more than I could in Spanish I by only using the present tense and little bit of the near future tense. I can express past tense speech in Spanish because of the concepts we learned in this Spanish II course.

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Day, Andrew. King, Caleb. "Past Tense." Photo. Pasttensecomic.com 08 June 2013. 29 May 2018 <http://pasttensecomic.com/>

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Cuando estuve en España, aprendí mucho. Primero repasé información del español uno. En la escuela en España, tuve clases de matemáticas, clases de química y una clase de cultura española. También hice algunas actividades extracurriculares con mis nuevos amigos. Nadamos para la escuela y me hice gobierno de estudiantes.
Viví en una casa grande en Barcelona cuando estuve en España. Usé Internet para encontrar mi casa en Barcelona. Limpié la casa con mi familia anfitriona. Mi hermano anfitrión cortó el césped, limpié la cocina, y mi hermana anfitriona lavó la ropa. Nuestra casa estuvo en la ciudad y fue muy agradable. Me gusté mucho la casa.
Viví con una familia anfitriona cuando estuve en España. Mi familia fueron muy agradable, y me ayudaron mucho con mi español. Tuve dos hermanos anfitriones, y sus nombres fueron José y Javier. Mi padre del anfitrión fue un carpintero y mi madre del anfitrión fue una profesora. Gabriella fue mi anfitrión hermana y ella fue muy bonita.
En mi tiempo libre en España hice mucho. Fui de compras a veces en Barcelona y compré souvenirs para mi familia durante mi tiempo libre. También fui a museos y espectáculos por diversión en España. Pasé mi tiempo libre explorando la ciudad y aprendiendo la cultura española.
Mi madre anfitriona en España hizo muy buena comida. Porque comí mucho de la comida de mi madre anfitriona, tuve que ir al gimnasio para estar en forma. Cuando fui al gimnasio hice la cinta a menudo. Mi comida favorita en España fue el arroz con pollo porque fue muy bueno.
Me gustó ir de compras con mi familia anfitriona. Mi hermana anfitriona ayudó a mi encontrar tacones para complementar mi vestido de seda. Compré ropa nueva cuando estuve en España porque hice mucho calor en Barcelona. Pasé dos cientos de euros durante mi tiempo en españa. Fui de compras mucho.
Para prepararse para mi vuelo a los Estados Unidos, tuve que hacer mucho. Primero compré mi boleto de avión. También empaqué mi equipaje. Finalmente, fui al quiosco para conseguir mi tarjeta de embarque y abordó mi avión a América. Tuve un buen tiempo en España, pero yo estuve preparado para ir a casa.

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No author. "Map of Spain." Photo. www.independent.ie. 01 April 2015. 31 May 2018. <https://www.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/health-features/article30878414.ece/BINARY/2015-01-04_lif_5799173_I2.JPG>

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There are many differences between Spanish and English. One major difference is that the nouns in Spanish are assigned genders, and in English there is nothing like that. The fact that the nouns have genders means that the correct article has to be used for each noun. For masculine nouns you use "el" and "la" for feminine nouns. Like in English, the nouns can be plural, but if a noun is plural in English you don't have to change the article. If a noun is plural in Spanish the article becomes either "los" or "las." Another major difference between Spanish and English is that there are no apostrophe marks in Spanish. Instead of saying "My mother's food" like you would say in english, this would be "La comida de mi madre" which translates to "the food of my mother." One huge thing in Spanish is the conjugation of verbs, which is something that doesn't exist in English. Instead of having to state the subject of a sentence directly in Spanish, you can simply conjugate the verb for the conjugate ending that matches your subject. This was a rule that took a little bit of work to memorize, but it can make writing easier. My last difference between English and Spanish is that in Spanish accents are used over some vowels, which can sometimes indicate things such as a different tense of a verb like in the preterite tense or the subject of a sentence.

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No author. "Difference Between Spanish in USA and Spanish in Spain." Photo. http://salonurody.info/ 2018. 31 May 2018. <http://salonurody.info/?y=Differences+between+Spanish+in+USA+and+Spanish+in+Spain

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Throughout this course I learned a lot about Spanish culture, and most of this information was brand new to me. One of the most interesting things I learned about Spanish culture is that there is a Spanish Royal Family that is much like the Royal Family in England in the way that people are fascinated by them. This was something that never occurred to me before this course, and it was really interesting to learn about. Another interesting thing I learned about Spanish culture in this class was that Spain has there own NASCAR called Formula One, where the race car drivers go even faster. I also learned that in Spain waiters and waitresses get a full wage, so people don't usually leave tips when they go out to eat. This was really interesting to learn because that is not how it is in America at all. There were many things about the Spanish culture that I found interesting, like the fact that in some parts of Spain people still dance the flamenco and other dances on the street, but I think what fascinated me most were the parts of the culture that were entirely different from those in the United States. I love the fact that stores and businesses close to take a siesta along with the rest of Spain, and that life seems to flow at a much slower pace than life does in America.

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No author. "Spanish Dancing." Photo. http://coralfrontinn.com/ 2016. 01 June 2018. <http://coralfrontinn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=10&itemid=11182#>

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If I do continue to further my knowledge of the Spanish language, I would hope to learn how to speak in future tenses, and well as learn more specific adjectives to describe things in my writing. I hope that I become more comfortable with my ability to speak and write in Spanish, which I'm sure will happen with more classes and Spanish practice. I want learn more vocabulary to help me express myself in conversations with others, and to be able to speak in Spanish without having to write down what I'm going to say before I speak.

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No author. "Latino Voices." Photo. www.huffingtonpost.com. 13 March 2012. 01 June 2018. <https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/10/celebrities-speaking-spanish_n_1337104.html>

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I had taken three online classes before this one, but I had never taken a foreign language online. This was a very new experience for me as there was no one-one-one attention from a teacher in this course like there is in a traditional classroom setting. I think that this course is set up in the most beneficial way for students with the vocabulary flashcards and the Require Live Classes. It was harder for me to take Spanish online because I had to put in more work to learn the concepts than I do with a teacher in the classroom, but because of this I learned more about my learning style and what works for me, which is really important for me to understand before I get to college. I continuously looked back at my notes throughout this course, and I sometimes had to read them out loud to myself to fully understand a concept of remember vocabulary, but overall I had a good experience learning Spanish online.

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I really like online classes like this one because I am given the ability to work on my assignments anywhere I have Internet connection. I love that I get to work on the course around my own schedule, which makes the course seem easier because I don't have to stress about getting the work done at school. I also really liked the fact that all of the vocabulary for each unit was given at the beginning of the unit so I could go ahead and make flashcards for that information and have a basic grasp of some of the information for a unit before I went straight into the assignments or quizzes. One of my favorite parts of the course were the cultural lessons for each unit because I got to learn the Spanish language along with the Spanish culture, and most of the time they were really interesting. I do wish that the escuchar assignments had been a little different because the voice that we listened to was sometimes really hard to understand, but other than that I think this course is very well structured.

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No author. "Thumbs Up Good." Photo. http://www.dexteracademy.in/ 2017. 01 June 2018. <http://www.dexteracademy.in/quiz/current-affairs/april-month-current-affairs-tamil-quiz-6/>

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My favorite part of this course was the Required Live Classes. I was a bit nervous about them at the start of the semester because I'd never had anything like them in my prior online classes, but they were by far the most beneficial part of this course. The information was all given to me in the lessons for each unit, but the RLCs really helped to reinforce that information, and it was nice to have a teacher there to explain any questions I had because most of the information in this course was brand new to me. The RLC assignment also helped me because I got to think about what I still had questions and then my teacher could directly address those topics, so those were very helpful as well. The vocabulary lessons were also very helpful because I was able to pick up on those words during different assignments like the escuchar and the hablar assignments. In the future, I will probably take more notes during my Spanish classes because throughout this course I learned that I remember things better if I write them down or say them out loud.

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I think my teacher did a really good job of answering any questions I had during thing class whether they were about the assignments or the Spanish language, and she was easy to talk to, which makes things easier to understand. Most of the time my teacher addressed different topics that many people had during her daily announcements, which was very helpful. In other online classes the teachers had outlines of notes for students to follow along with during lessons, so I think if this had been an aspect of this course it might have made learning different topics a little bit easier, but overall my teacher did a really good job of helping me in anyway I needed by being available whenever I had a question.

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No author. "Thank You." Photo. feedyeti.com 2018. 01 June 2018. <https://feedyeti.com/hashtag.php?q=thanku>