Different languages…

    I know it's been a while since I have blogged, to be sincere this summer has me pretty busy, between swim team, karate, and other various things. I guess you can just imagine. Back to the point, I was recently talking to someone about learning English, this immediately made me think about learning other languages. I have taught a few people to speak English what I learned was that if you make myself listen to the language your learning it helps. For example my cousin came from Peru, she wanted to learn English and took some classes sadly the classes, after a few weeks, did nothing for her, so we then suggested that she listen to radio and watch movies in English, she ended up learning in a few month almost perfect English. She now speaks Spanish, English and French. So my thought is if a person really wants to learn to speak English them why not forget the novellas and watch soap operas forget peliculas and watch movies, same with radio English songs make it easier to learn the language. Now if you are thinking it only work for English you are mistaken the other side of my family are all American with Latin/native descendants.  Most of my cousins don't speak Spanish, after one of my male cousins got married he decided he had to learn to speak Spanish, so he made himself watch and get into an actual novella, now he speak Spanish well not perfect but well enough to understand and answer. So I don't really understand why people say it is difficult to learn, I am making the effort to learn a new language this summer and also at the same time brushing up on my French. The thing I am learning which is possibly the most confusing about these languages is that in Italian there is a mixture of French, English and Spanish. So I'm guessing you are thinking that it may end up being easier for me since I know those languages. Well I got news for you!! IT"S NOT! It just occurred to me the other day while I was studying Italian, that it was going to be confusing, then I tried using what I learned to answer my father what came out of my mouth was Italian/French... I thought this was hilarious, then I started thinking about other languages German, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Chinese, so on and so forth. I thought those must me  hard to learn specially the ones with the harsh tones. Then I was thinking what about the Native American languages the ones that are not being taught that much anymore, for example my family as you know is Peruvian so the Native (Incas) language there is Quechua (there are various forms of course), this language for I know for sure is not being taught nor learned very much anymore it is on its way to being a dead language. Me, of course, want to learn Quechua very badly but I can not find a book or tapes, you tube has some videos but not very helpful, so what I do is try to pick my grandmother's brain about Quechua, so far I know a few sentences but I get confused on which is what ... haha     But it is a start!!! So to all those out there who say they cannot learn this is not true anyone can learn anything with the right push and confidence in yourself.  Till the next blog... A Presto! Hasta la Proxima! Jusqu'à le prochain!



                                                     

                                                                           

Fear...

  Well I was talking to someone that told me something, of course no names, but she got me to thinking. Fear is a normal word when talking about scary things like werewolves, vampires, zombies, mummies, Freddy Kruger, the chainsaw guy, taxes, IRS etc... I'm going to safely say that you all get my point. So back to what I was about to say, when the word fear comes up in conversation about a persons relationship, it is not a very good word it actually turns into a curse. When a person starts to fear the person they are with then, sorry to say, your relationship maybe doomed. I am sure there could be a few ways to save it but in my opinion and experience it doesn't work out. You see once you start seeing your significant other as someone to fear then how can you trust them again? I figure fear is a way that your sub-conscience tells you or shall I say warns you of the things that may come. Just think about it, you have seen those movies where the woman makes excuses for the man on why she fears him. Well doesn't she still keep getting beat after the fear hits, of course she doe. But its not only that its also words people say that words don't hurt well I am here to tell you sometimes words are worse then anything else. Because words make a person start to believe what is being said about them for example no one has the right to call you worthless, a loser, stupid, make you feel bad or anything negative think about it this way. GOD wouldn't have put you here if he knew you were not meant to be, GOD makes no mistake you are here because you have a reason to exist! So for the conclusion I would like to say that you need to make your own decisions and you need to think about what is right for you and yours. May you all be safe and do not fear the one you love. God loves you no matter what anyone else tells you, you are worth it after all GOD put you here so live your way and happy..... Blessed to you all....

It's been a while....

  I know it has been a while since I have written, I have not been feeling well not that it is an excuse but I am not in much of a good mood when my tendons and nerves are all acting up and giving much hated pain. So in a pinch this month was also very busy for me, besides the normal mother's day and my mom's birthday it was also the last month of school for my boy. I would go and try to help the teacher with the kids abit (also probably why I have been in pain non-stop ) but I have to admit it was fun. My boys little friends liked me a lot  I would get hugs and they all called me Tia (which means Aunt). The field trips were also much fun we walked to the park while the kids picked up trash to help the community then after had a picnic. Then of course was the fun day at school which is a obstacle course the kids participate in and a few us parents also participated in again super fun. Now that leads to today which I am relaxing and trying to get myself feeling better before I start my Summer School of Me started, in case you don't understand I teach my boy during summer the things that I believe the school is not teaching him for example script writing and also helping him get better at his math and reading I don't want him to forget everything he learned this year.Well I do hope everyone out there in the world has had a good May. I shall write a bit more often this summer. TTFN..