[2016] A Spoonful of Spanish [TAC] (feat. Italian, Esperanto & more)

[jennybenny25]

looking good hun- you have done alot!

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[Spoonary]

Keep it up! It looks like you're accomplishing a lot more than just a spoonful of Spanish. I am about to embark on the Spanish adventure myself (I think). I'll try to do it in big swigs.

Yeah, that spoon looks more like a shovel to me.

You're right, I have been doing lots of Spanish just lately. The thing is, my nick/username is Spoon(ary). I am the spoon, so it's me that's full of Spanish.

Thank you Rdearman, for the suggestion. I will definitely have a closer look at that list of prompts.

Thanks jennybenny25 for the encouragement

[steyyan]

Goal #2 ( Writing) - Write at least 150 words/a page in my 'diary' each day.

How do you find keeping a diary like that? I didn't find it very productive as a way of practising writing, since I kept writing much of the same stuff: 150-200 words of what I read, listened to, etc. and comments to that as well as what I did (what I did in a game, where I went that day, ec.).

Maybe your days are more interesting than mine!

[Spoonary]

@steyyan Yeah, I know what you mean. As I wrote in my goal wrap-up for last week, I am feeling the need to change up my writing a bit, because I have been constantly writing about the same things (although I sometimes go off on a tangent and discuss a topic in more depth). From now on I will be trying to use writing prompts to give my writing more focus, while also covering more diverse topics.


Output: January mini challenge (Spanish) - Rules
Well, here you have it: my January mini output challenge in audio and text form. Note: I improvised a bit and added another phrase onto the end, so sorry about that. Also, I am terrible at doing voices so my two characters sound almost identical in the middle (Berto is supposed to be more nasal, while Amelia has my "neutral" Spanish voice) where it also gets a bit shouty, so watch that volume!



(Amelia y Berto entran en el ascensor. Amelia pulsa el botón 0, suspira, y mira a Berto de reojo)
Amelia: No te habrás sentado tú en la silla roja ¿verdad?
Berto: Er… pues… sí, fui yo quien se sentó en la silla roja ¿vale? ¿Y qué pasa?
Amelia: ¿Qué pasa? ¡Qué pasa! Lo que PASA es que yo acabo de recibir una bronca tremenda del jefe por haber dejado que alguien que no fuera “su majestad” dejara una marca con forma de culo en su trono. “Era TU responsabilidad” dijo, “¿Cómo se te ocurre dejar que un “crimen” de esta magnitud pase desapercibido?” gritó ¡y ahora dices que fuiste tú! Manda huevos tío…
Berto: Tranquilízate. No es para tanto. Sólo quería sentir ese lujoso terciopelo debajo de mi culo ¿Qué más da?
Amelia: ¡Podría haber perdido mi trabajo, y todo por tu maldito culo!
Berto: Pero no lo has perdido, así que no pasa nada.

(Amelia le observa con los brazos cruzados. No parece tener ganas de hablar)

Berto: Uff, lo siento vale. Te prometo que no volverá a ocurrir. Vengaaa tonta, vamos a tomar algo. Verás cómo se te pasa todo después de un par de copas.
Amelia: (suspira) Vale, quizá tengas razón. Y además, tengo mucha hambre.
Berto: (Saliendo del ascensor) ¿Ves? Venga, vamos a ver si tienen esas croquetas que te gustan tanto. Y hala, pago yo, a lo loco. (Sonríe) Total, te… quité 20 euros de la hucha ayer, pero estamos trankis, ¿no?
Amelia: ¿Qué dices? ¡No, no estamos “trankis”! ¡Ven aquí mamón!

(Amelia persigue a Berto que había echado a correr, riendo como una hiena.)

Yo: Gracias

[Radioclare]

I have no idea what it's about but your audio sounds impressively Spanish And it sounds like you have done an amazing amount for the Output Challenge already!!

[Elenia]

I have no idea what it's about but your audio sounds impressively Spanish And it sounds like you have done an amazing amount for the Output Challenge already!!

Seconded! You're shaming me into doing more!

[Sooniye]

Wow, sounds and looks like you have done great so far in the Output Challenge! I always get so happy hearing Spanish, and you speak lovely Spanish!

[Spoonary]

Aww, thank you all for your kind comments, everyone.

With regards to the output challenge, I am simply determined to record my 10 minutes/write my 150-200 words per day, every day, so no matter how I am feeling, I crank them out and check them off on my list of goals. This amount of output would be all well and good for someone at an intermediate level but as I am at a pretty advanced level in Spanish, I can't help but feel like I should be putting more effort into my output, discussing a different topic each time and making sure I use advanced structures and vocabulary, so although I admit I have done a lot so far this year, I'm not completely happy with the quality.

And as for my Spanish, I don't think I am hearing what you're all hearing I am willing to admit that my consonants are pretty good and my intonation is ok at times but my vowels are constantly all over the place, and that's a bit pathetic considering Spanish only has 5 pure vowel sounds.

[Cavesa]

Keep it up! It looks like you're accomplishing a lot more than just a spoonful of Spanish. I am about to embark on the Spanish adventure myself (I think). I'll try to do it in big swigs.

Yeah, that spoon looks more like a shovel to me.

:...The thing is, my nick/username is Spoon(ary)...

That's why I suggest you renamed yourself immediately to Shovelary.

I am simply determined to record my 10 minutes/write my 150-200 words per day, every day, so no matter how I am feeling,

WOW! I should focus on such output goals too, it sounds to work awesome for you! Btw your recording sounds really good.

[Stelle]

That's why I suggest you renamed yourself immediately to Shovelary.

This made me laugh out loud - for real, not just the internets version.