cracker nuts<\/a>. I’ve been making some decent tacos at home for my lunches, so I also bought some commercial salsa verde and guacamole to put on them.<\/p>\nI’ve somehow found an hour every night before bed to work at my Spanish, so I also treated myself to a new notebook for that and a package of\u00a010 different\u00a0coloured pens, a very inexpensive gift (about $50 total) that made my “schoolwork” more fun that night. I’m working on a new verb tense, the imperfect (one of the past tenses) and treating it like a vocabulary lesson. Instead of using the standard verbs, like hablar and comer, to learn the new tense, I’m using new verbs that I’m struggling with,\u00a0like dejar and romper.<\/p>\n
I am once more grateful that I can go from French to Spanish because that makes learning Spanish so much easier. Dejar, for example, translates as “stop” or “leave” in English, but not in the senses that immediately come to my mind. Stop is more like quit (eg. smoking) rather than doing so in a car and leave is more in the sense of something being dropped off than exiting a room.\u00a0There is no ambiguity as to the meaning if I go from French and so I’m once more understanding what an enormous challenge learning Spanish would be to a native English speaker with no other points of comparison. I mean, the imperfect of, say, comer (to eat) is\u00a0\u00a0com\u00eda, com\u00edas, com\u00eda, com\u00edamos, com\u00edais, com\u00edan. In English? It’s ate, ate, ate, ate, ate, ate!<\/p>\n
So it’s really just routine here in paradise, but dang, the living is easy. \ud83d\ude42 Now, I have to really get to work!!!<\/p>\n
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