Ano daw?!

Thoughts, questions and reflections on my langauge lessons.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Hola! Ni hao ma?

I am so excited! I have finally resolved to really pursue this goal:

I resolve to learn Spanish and Mandarin!

When I say, learn, I mean to say I would like to be able to conversant in the language and be able to read in write as well. (Read my previous blog here.) In fact, I plan to take the DELE and the HSK, as I mentioned in my other post. I have background in both Spanish in Mandarin but I haven't gotten the chance to be really conversant in it both in writting or conversationally. I have actually been attempting to self study the past few months and I have even gotten as far as having a study schedule but I haven't been able to keep up with it. This time though, I resolve to review really well before I take the diagnostic tests at the Confucius Institute at the Ateneo and the Instituto Cervantes.

I was inspired to write this blog when I encountered a sentence in my morning lessons today. I then thought I might as well post my questions here to help me remember them and who knows, someone could have an answer for me. Also, this would help me keep up with my lessons as I will obligate myself to write my comments on the difficult parts of my lessons and hopefully make it easier to go back to these questions later.

Right now, I'm reviewing Spanish using Teach Yourself Spanish by Juan Kattan-Ibarra (2003 edition, Contemporary Books) and Hola! Que Tal? Libro I by Salvador B. Malig, Jr. and Trinidad O. Regala of the UP College of Arts and Letters, Department of European Languages, which is the text book which I used in college.

First question: I wonder how to put Spanish punctuation marks (such as the inverted question mark at the beginning of a question) on my posts?


2 Comments:

Anonymous playinginthefields said...

how's your spanish?im also considering studying spanish in instituto thsi year, I enjoyed reading your blog

6:46 PM  
Blogger wernicke said...

Hi playinginthefields!

I wrote this blog almost 3 years now! I got as far as finishing level 3 in Mandarin and as for my Spanish, I'm on self-study but with the help of my Argentine friend. I get frustrated when I hear her speak Spanish and understand it somehow but I couldn't speak. The vocabulary is there but no grammar and no practice. When I get back to Manila, I will have myself assessed at Instituto and continue studying. Maybe I'll meet you there! Goodluck. :)

7:25 PM  

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