Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Que Paso, Amigos?

I just finished my Spanish lesson for today, so I am feeling muy fantastico! It's so much fun learning Spanish. I don't know why. I guess I just get a kick out of learning, and to be able to speak a completely different language is so cool to me.

I've been trying to learn this romantic language for about 2 years now, so I know quite a lot of words, but the grammatical structure is what I'm mostly working on now. I think it'll be impressive to be able to say to one of my Hispanic co-workers "Yo hablo espanol muy fluentemente!" I'd love to see the smile on their faces as they don't know whether to laugh at me or be impressed. Usually when I say anything in Spanish to a Hispanic person though, the person'll get the wrong idea and start going a mile a minute, and I end up standing there, looking confused going "um, despacio, por favor?" Can't practice with just anybody.

I plan to start having more immersed lessons when I start going over to Marcella and Jay's house specifically for that purpose. Marcella is Colombian and she and Jay both speak Spanish fluently. I'm going to suggest that when I come over we speak nothing but Spanish, cause otherwise I have no one to practice my espanol with, and that's the only way I'm gonna become as fluent as I'd like.

I thought about one day becoming a person who taught English to immigrants coming to America or maybe opening a center teaching English speaking students Spanish and vice versa. I think it's more and more important these days to be bilingual, and to speak Spanish especially. I don't know what I'll really do with this second language, but I'm sure I'll find a way to use it in my life and maybe to benefit others' lives.

All I can say at this point is I'm completely fullfilled when I finish a passage or learn a song completely in Spanish. Yep, I do know some songs in Spanish and I love to sing 'em. My favorite Spanish artist is Shakira (although she's Colombian). I know most of the tracks from her last album. I also dig Julieta Venegas, who I sing to all the time, and Dominic Marte! He's got a beautiful voice, so I sing along with him constantly, as well.

I even ordered the Latino package with my cable, but that's been a big waste of money. I never watch it. I think whenever they first hooked it up, I watched for like an hour and my television has not seen that station since. I intend to watch more, though, cause there's more opportunities to be immersed there....at least an hour every other day or so. And those Latino folks are beautiful! Don't believe me? Turn on any telenovela and see for yourself. The men are all smouldering sex pots just waiting to erupt, and the women are so well made up and dark and beautiful, they could all be beauty pageant contestants.

I suppose that would be the reason I was on a Latino kick for a while a couple years ago before I met my beau. I tell you, it was like they could smell me learning Spanish, cause I was approached by one after another after another. But you know? They say you attract what you put out, so maybe subconsciously I was emitting a "lust for Latin" vibe or something. (Oh, snap! Could be because I was frequenting a Latino joint, too.....Hmmm...forgot about that). Whatever it was, I went through a period of some hot and steamy encounters. The Latino is a passionate being and I ain't mad at 'em for it. But I find that passion can easily turn to jealousy, so you gotta take the bad with the good. But hell, that's with everybody, isn't it? I know with me, you don't get all roses. Trust me. Jeremy will be quick to second that. But anyhoo.......

If anybody out there, including you Gerardo and you Ivan, want to communicate with me in Spanish and help a brother out with his lessons, envia me algo comunicacion in espanol y podemos hablar a veces!

Until tomorrow, my friends (hasta manana, mis amigos)! Viva Big pimp!!

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