Proyecto Final de Español 1 by

Parte 1

ashley_rodriguez8 — 2019-01-01 21:37:15 UTC

¡Hola! Yo estoy pasando mis vacaciones en Costa Rica. Me estoy quedando con mi amiga y su familia. La casa de ellos está en la ciudad de San José. La casa tiene cinco dormitorios, una cocina grande, un comedor, un baño, un ático, un sotano, un garaje, y una sala de estar y la casa es azul. Yo me estoy quedando en el cuarto de mi amiga. Ella dijo que es mejor que yo me quedo con ella en ves de la casa de su tío. La casa de su tío tiene los niños de él, los papás de él, y su hermana.

Ayer, fuí al supermercado y quería comprar leche. Yo pensé que la leche estaba en un refrigerador pero estaba en una caja, y tambíen, quería mayonesa y estaba en una cosa de pasta de cepillo de dientes. Para mi, eso es muy extranjero.

Una cosa que fue una sorpresa para mi, fue que los hermanos de mi amiga se fueron de la casa para ir a la escuela y regresaron a mediodía. Me sorprendió porque los estudiantes en los Estados Unidos salen de la escuela a las tres de la tarde.
Un día, mi amiga me invito a ir al parque con su familia y yo le dije "¡Por supuesto!" Fuí con ellos y vi que el parque estaba muy grande y tenia mucha gente. En el parque, nosotros jugamos al vóleibol. Los hermanas de mi amiga son muy atléticas y talentosas.
Algo que yo pienso que es interesante es que el dinero aquí en Costa Rica son colones y quinientos colones son un dolar americano.

Hoy, mi amiga me va a llevar a un restaurante a las ocho de la noche. ------------
Ahorita estoy en el restaurante y mi amiga me dijo que ella va pagar por mi. Ella es la mejor amiga. Le dije al mesero que yo pedí el gallo pinto y un Fresco porque mi amiga me dijo que los Frescos tienen un sabor muy bueno. ------------
El mesero ya nos trajo la comida y la comida está buena.------------
Ya regresamos a la casa y tengo sueño. Me voy a dormir. Todavia, tengo muchas cosas que hacer en el país de Costa Rica. ¡Buenas noches!

Parte 3

ashley_rodriguez8 — 2019-01-01 21:38:34 UTC

Taking a Spanish course this semester was certainly a unique experience. I learned part of the language that Costa Ricans speak.
I've noticed a few differences between my native language and the Spanish I learned in this course. One of the big differences I noticed is that Costa Ricans don't roll their R's and in my Spanish, rolling R's is essential to speaking correctly.
What I found interesting and exciting about the Costa Rican culture is that they do things different from that in the U.S.
If I continue to study this Spanish, I hope to learn a greater vocabulary. Learning Spanish in an online class is way different than how I learned Spanish. I grew up learning Spanish and English at the same time. My mom would grab some random object and say what it was in Spanish, then in English so I could know how to say it in both languages. This way of learning Spanish online was very different from how I learned Spanish and it was interesting.
One thing I liked about the course was that in the notes that were given to everyone, there were flashcards which were very helpful. What I didn't really like was that, because of the hurricane, I didn't have WIFI to do my work at the time, but in the end I got a whole unit of work off, so everything's perfect now.
One thing I did to help me in Spanish, or to help me know where there were accents, was to pronounce the words in my head to see where there was some sort of stress in the word to signify if an accent was needed somewhere. I still have trouble with that sometimes. I guess that could be something to improve on and also to figure out what the gender of a word is because I also have a bit of trouble there, too.
Something I could do to to improve my Spanish learning would be to really imagine a word by a picture of what the word represents and to sound it out to completely understand the word and to study how a word is spelled and how it is said.
Something my instructor helped me do was to remember to do my work on time, which helped me have more time to study some Spanish. I don't think there was really anything I needed help on that my instructor couldn't help me with, so this semester of Spanish was pretty interesting.

Parte 2

ashley_rodriguez8 — 2019-01-01 21:39:02 UTC

Wallpaper Used

ashley_rodriguez8 — 2019-01-03 02:15:25 UTC

Pheterson, Eric. "Monte Verde, Costa Rica." Photo. Flickr.com 7 Sep. 2013. 1 Jan. 2019
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