Even Jimena Needed a Break from David

Well, I think we all know how I feel about David and I had promised myself I wasn't going to bad mouth him again. But really, wondering how long "things last" with Jimena and her boyfriend, just makes you want to call him a CULO all over again. Thankfully Jimena seems to be getting a bit fed up with him too, so hopefully next week she will ream him a new one and whip him into shape.

Anyway . . . .in the world of Bueno, entonces... Learn Spanish, today is Saturday so today's class was a re-cap of this past week. Jimena called David at home (even she couldn't stand to see him again ;-) ) and they reviewed a lot of what was learned during the past 5 classes.

By the way, for those that were wondering, this is Jimena.

Jimena decided to play a few games with David to review his numbers, family members, moods, a few greetings, as well as conjugating some verbs in the present tense. All and all, quite the informative lesson.

In addition, there are some practice exercises for me to do in the support material that came with the Bueno, entonces... Learn Spanish learn Spanish DVD. A great way to really reinforce what Jimena has been teaching us.

As I am being taught more and more new things (from what I had learned in previous Spanish classes), I find myself pausing the video more often to jot down more notes . . . new vocabulary words and useful Spanish phrases. It is nice to see my notebook filling up, ever so slowly.

I still find myself looking all over the screen at all the colors and all the words (both English and Spanish), all the while, trying to listen to Jimena. So at times I feel a bit distracted by doing so many things at once.

During all my previous Spanish classes (both private lessons and Visual Link), I found that I started to excel in writing and reading while I really lagged behind in speaking and understanding other speakers. I am really hoping that listening to Jimena, who ONLY speaks Spanish (no matter how much David exhausts her) will really help boost my listening (and understanding) and speaking skills.

One thing that was new today was Reflexive Verbs. I have been taught them many times in the past and while it all makes sense when it is explained to you, being a native English speaker, it is still hard to grasp. All a reflexive verb is one where the action is done to yourself. For example, ducharse (to shower one self) vs. in English one would say I am showering. (I hope I got that right.) The little professor popped up and did a great job of explaining it. Let's hope that this time it sticks.

This is a video that I might repeat again before I move on to Class 7 just to make sure that I am not too far behind Señor David since he really seems to be grasping the Spanish language. (My one and only attempt to say something nice about David).

Well, there may be a day off for David, it is Monday for me (and I already took the weekend off) so I will be back, bright eyed and bushy tailed mañana!! Chau Chau para ahora!!