4 Weeks of School

 We are in our fourth week of language school, and we are still smiling!  Yeah!  It has been a real blessing to go to school and a real challenge at the same time.  As an English teacher I have some knowledge of the different grammatical terms, but I sure never disected the English language the way we are now disecting Spanish.  There are 14 tenses in Spanish and we are working our way through.  Everyday we are learning new things and are better able to converse and even joke in Spanish!  That is such a blessing! 

I am on my third teacher...not because I am such a bad student (I know - hard to believe).  My first teacher got a job with the Ministry of Education evaluating teachers and my second teacher is only available in the afternoons.  This week we went back to morning classes and so, I have another new teacher.  All three have been excellent and in some ways, I think it is a good thing to receive three different presentations/perspectives; it is helping me see the "big" picture!  Rocky has had the same teacher for all 4 weeks - Jaime [hi-me].  He is the owner of the school and a really neat young man. 

I have been working through the first round of tenses:  present indicative (I speak - Yo hablo); Present Progresive (I am speaking - Yo estoy hablando) Imperfect Indicative (I spoke; I was speaking; I used to speak - Yo hablaba); Preterito (I spoke - Yo hable); Future (I will speak - Yo hablare); Future Popular (I am going to speak - Yo voy a hablar); Present Perfect or Past Indefinite (I have spoken - Yo he hablado); Pluperfect Indicative or Past Perfect (I had spoken - yo habia hablado); Future Perfect (I shall have spoken - Yo habre hablado). 

Oh my...what an adventure!  Did you know, in Spanish there are 4 different ways to say "I was" depending upon the circumstances!  Yo era; Yo fui; Yo estuve; Yo estaba - all four say "I was." 

It is a good thing we have such good teachers! 

Blessings, Karren