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how to say ‘procrastinate’ in spanish

1 February 2010 2 Comments

soon i will speak fluent spanish.

i have also noticed a trend: whenever i have a large amount of school work coming up (essays, mid-terms etc), i find myself becoming extremely motivated with a new activity. last semester it was playing the guitar (i even went out and bought a capo to show how serious i was about practicing) and this semester it appears to be learning spanish.

in my journey to learn the language, i have (over the past 72 hours) downloaded over 15 spanish podcasts to my iPhone, purchased a pocket spanish dictionary, enlisted my friend ivan as my official tutor (hey ivan, please & thankyou!), registered at 2 different ‘learn spanish’ websites, made myself some vocabulary flash cards and started my own little notebook of slang words & phrases.

my decision to learn this language was prompted by my earlier decision to spend this coming summer in peru working with the one laptop per child initiative. i discovered (a little embarrassingly) in the last 2 questions of my online interview, that i needed to be fluent in the native language of the country i would be visiting. so when asked to describe (over video) in spanish, a situation where i had been uncertain about a task but completed the task despite that uncertainty, i was desperately googling ‘how to say ‘uncertain’ in spanish’ whilst simultaneously conceding to the fact that the next 12 weeks would now become : operation learn spanish.

oh, i also started an ultimate book list. you can check it out here.

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2 Comments »

Teresa said:

All I have to say is, my favorite language tool is “Google Translate”.

# 2 February 2010 at 7:01 am

Anthea said:

Excellent, please make videos of yourself practicing and put them up for critique – I don’t know any spanish but it would be amusing

xx

# 2 February 2010 at 12:49 pm

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