Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Spanish...oh the challenges!
Well, our latest attempt to help learn Spanish was to program in some DirecTV channels that are in Spanish. We found four that sounded worth following. It's interesting to watch commercials that are familiar.
I'm sitting here watching a commercial for Clorox and then one for Kraft cheese. I can pick out a few words here and there. The big thing is to get a feeling for the sound of the language, otherwise it's going to sound even stranger when we get off the plane in Ecuador. LOL!
It's done, We're done!
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