Kevin's Watch

Auleliel wrote:

Vraith wrote:I know:
maricon
pendejo
mas cerveza
(and I don't know if they're spelled right. I was only told to say them)
So 2/3rds of the time I need to run from Spaniards.

Add "hijo de puta" and make that 3/4.

oh...I think I knew one related to that once...um...derogatory and involves...um female anatomy?

Why is it that all the high school spanish I remember revolves around crude talk?

So I'm auditing Spanish 102 this semester... We're learning the preterite right now.
I think my favorite verb is Poner(to put).
For anyone who doesn't know, the first person singular form of Poner in the preterite tense is Puse(pronounced poo-say).
Our prof was making sentences on friday, and happened to write "Puse el gato en la mesa." Which is "I put the cat on the table." But then she took a second look at what she had written, erased cat, and replaced it with dog. And then a second later erased dog and replaced it with book. We all laughed for like five minutes.

magickmaker17 wrote:So I'm auditing Spanish 102 this semester... We're learning the preterite right now.
I think my favorite verb is Poner(to put).
For anyone who doesn't know, the first person singular form of Poner in the preterite tense is Puse(pronounced poo-say).
Our prof was making sentences on friday, and happened to write "Puse el gato en la mesa." Which is "I put the cat on the table." But then she took a second look at what she had written, erased cat, and replaced it with dog. And then a second later erased dog and replaced it with book. We all laughed for like five minutes.

I'll keep that in mind as something to avoid with my 8th graders (I'm teaching Spanish at a Catholic school this semester).

Auleliel wrote: I'll keep that in mind as something to avoid with my 8th graders (I'm teaching Spanish at a Catholic school this semester).

Cool Auleliel I take it then you are fluent in Spanish then, I can speak it quiet well and when I,m with my spanish friends I can understand the majority of what they say, well apart from when I,m tired and I can,t understand anything LOL! But my spanish writing is very poor as I don,t practice enough.

Cleburne wrote:Cool Auleliel I take it then you are fluent in Spanish then, I can speak it quiet well and when I,m with my spanish friends I can understand the majority of what they say, well apart from when I,m tired and I can,t understand anything LOL! But my spanish writing is very poor as I don,t practice enough.

Well, I wouldn't say I'm fluent in Spanish, per se, but then again I don't claim to be fluent in English either. The hardest part of Spanish for me is reading comprehension. I'm taking a Hispanoamerican Literature course this semester, and some of the older stuff is really complicated to read (plus I'm terrible at analyzing/interpreting literature in any language, including English).

Auleliel wrote:I'll keep that in mind as something to avoid with my 8th graders (I'm teaching Spanish at a Catholic school this semester).

yeah, probably a good idea to avoid it. Certainly not a bad idea. I mean, there's nothing wrong with the word, it just gets a lot of snickers.
You'd think at an all women's university we'd be better(more mature) about that, but in actuality we're worse.