Globalization helping me in my life
Last night, I was stressing out about my Spanish work. I was studying like a madman(woman), stressing over it all. I really didn’t have practice with Spanish,except for the online labs. But that’s a computer. None of my friends are in a language this semester, so outside of class I really don’t practice it like I should–there isn’t an opportunity for it. Writing Spanish is one of my hardest things, because there are so many words(and I also add French in there, since I took French freshman and sophomore year in high school.IT’S SO SIMILAR,thank you Latin for confusing me with your romance languages…moving on). I mentioned in an earlier post that I have a blog outside of this, but not in this format. I would give out what site it is, BUT it’s like Narnia. All the hipsters have one.
If you know what “what is air?”, “I can’t even”,”THIS”, ”gpoy” means, know how to use GIFs, and who the “Y U NO guy”, “trollface guy”, and One Direction are, then you know what blogging format I am talking about.
Anywho, I was blogging about how stressed I was about it after studying for awhile, and alas, one of my followers messaged me anonymously in English asking what was stressful about it. She then went on to say that she was from Colombia,(she wrote this part in Spanish to see if I understood it) and asked me random things in Spanish.
So that’s what happened. I carried on a blog conversation in Spanish without the use of my book or dictionary with her.AND IT HELPED A LOT. I mean, it was a basic conversation. “Hi,how are you? What country are you from? What’s your favorite band”(which turned out to be the same–All Time Low).Practical small talk. I felt good that I had practice, and I was able to read the different posts. It was that extra reading and writing practice I needed, and I am grateful for it.
The fact I can connect with someone a continent away and speak a common language is astounding. It is easy to forget that America isn’t an island separated from the world. It’s connected to something larger, by this case, the internet and the knowledge of not one, but two languages.
Globalization—giving me a real life reason to fulfill my language gen ed requirement.
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1 slitchford said this (September 22, 2011 at 5:16 pm)
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2 jaynekorn said this (September 22, 2011 at 5:00 pm)
I was a foreign exchange student to Germany back in 2000 and still keep contact via email with my host family there. Its wild how you can study all you want in a book but its real interactions with people that have always had the most impact on my fluency of the language. Its amazing to think we didn’t even have Skype back then, its an incredible world of opportunity now with few barriers.
3 Tim Owens said this (September 21, 2011 at 7:12 am)