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Costa Rica. (2017, May 23). Retrieved May 26, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica

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What differences have you seen between the Spanish language and your native language? What did you find interesting and exciting about the Costa Rican culture?

Spanish is written in the same alphabet that is used in English, with the addition of accent marks on certain letters. My native language, Urdu, has a completely different alphabet with 39 basic letters and even more symbols, which all add up to 52 in total. In Spanish, you don’t pronounce the letter J and the H is silent. In Urdu, every letter sound in the English alphabet is pronounced. I found the ecotourism, bright colors, and festive traditions of Costa Rica very exciting. Everything seemed so full of life.

What do you hope to learn if you continue to study the Spanish language?

I hope to learn the different tenses so that I can speak of the past, present, and future. I hope to also become better with conjugating verbs without having to spend a lot of thought on it.

We have learned elements of a language in a different teaching/learning style than you may be used to. Talk about your experience with learning Spanish in an online class. What did you like about the course? What did you not like and/or what could be improved?

In this course, I liked that we were free to go at our own pace and do the assignments whenever we had time, as long as we got it in by the main due dates. Even though I never saw my teacher in person, I really appreciate how easily and quickly I was able to contact her. Of course, not having a teacher physically in front of you is difficult, especially with a language. I didn’t like the elinguafolios because I did not find them useful. It seemed like a lot of extra effort just to see your progress. Other than that, I enjoyed everything.

What things did you do that helped you learn Spanish in this course? What things can you do to improve your own Spanish learning in the future?

I always reviewed my quizzes from the course, which I believe helped me see what I needed to work on. The instructor comments also helped me realize my mistakes, as well. I think to improve my Spanish learning, even more, I can do more of the non-weighted practice quizzes and assignments.

What things did your instructor do to help you with your learning? Was there anything that your instructor didn't do that would have helped you?

The comments that Sra.Chaney gave me on my writing assignments were very helpful, they really helped me see my grammatical mistakes. There’s nothing more she could have done :)

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Me llamo Areeba Khokhar. Yo vivo en Costa Rica. Soy de Carolina del Norte. Tengo catorce años. Mi cumpleaños es catorce de septiembre. En mi familia tengo un hermano, que se llama Izad y una hermana, que se llama Falisha. Son menor que yo. Mi mamá, que se llama Taranum. Mi papa, que se llama Asim. Ellos viven en Carolina del Norte. Soy una estudiante en Costa Rica. Estoy en la escuela secundaria. En mi horario hay clases diferentes cada dos días. Los lunes y el miércoles tenemos las matemáticas, química, el inglés y las ciencias. Los martes y jueves tenemos la historia, la educación física, el español y las ciencias. Los viernes tenemos todas las clases. El almuerzo es después de la segunda clase. Cada clase es noventa minutos. El almuerzo es cuarenta y cinco minutos. Mi clase favorita es la clase de ciencias. El nombre de la maestra es la Sra. Hummel. Termina la escuela a las tres. Después de la escuela yo voy mi casa. Mi casa está en San José. Mi dirección es Calle Iverton número cuarenta y nueve. Yo vivo en un apartamento. Vivo en el tercer piso. Mi apartamento es pequeña y bonita. El material es de ladrillo. Me ducho en el baño.Yo como en la cocina.Yo escucho música en el dormitorio. Yo trabajo y veo televisión en la sala de estar. Mis pasatiempos son ver películas y hacer gimnasia. No me gusta ir la escuela y trabajar. A veces me gusta jugar videojuegos y leer. Me gusta ir de compras. Yo compro las camisetas, los pantalones cortos y la gorra en verano. Yo compro un suéter, las medias y un chaqueta en invierno. En el supermercado, yo compro un cepillo de dientes, pasta dental, desodorante, jabón y un peine. Yo también compro comida. Me gusta comer fruta,  pizza y  papas fritas. Me gusta beber leche, agua y té. Me gusta comer la fruta por la mañana. Me gusta comer el pollo por el almuerzo. Me gusta comer el arroz por cena.  En los restaurantes yo pido espaguetis, ensalada y refresco. En la comunidad yo voy la piscina, la biblioteca y la farmacia. En la piscina yo paso tiempo con amigos. En la biblioteca yo leo. En la farmacia yo compro la medicina. Muy me gusta Costa Rica.