So apparently it’s been a while
since my last blog post! It’s probably about time to fill you in on what
language class looks like these days…
Now that we are able to construct
sentences in Tagalog, we spend a lot of time discussing pictures. Hannah and I
take it in turns to say something about the picture we are looking at. Our
teacher then helps us correct our sentences when necessary. As well as using
words we already know, we are able to learn many new words by asking what
something is or what someone in the picture is doing.
We started with using the pictures
in a wordless story book and I discovered that sometimes my Tagalog speaking
skills are better than my picture interpretation skills! After saying a
sentence about the fact that the boy was lying on the bed and dog was lying of
top of him, I was informed that I was, in fact, wrong. Apparently the boy was
lying on the bed and dog was standing on the bed next to him. Whatever. At
least my sentence was grammatically correct!
Many of our sentences are incorrect,
though, and this often provides us with a good laugh. I think the funniest
mistake I have made so far was when I said that the cake was going to eat the
boy, rather than vice versa. (I then realized that there is only one letter
difference between those two statements!)
Now we are talking about
photographs from some excursions that we took together before we started formal
language learning. Some of the photos we took are rather boring, but this one
totally cracks me up…
I am possibly a little too excited about the fact that I am now able
to say, “The man is hiding behind the curtain because
we are crazy”! Although "crazy" may not be the most useful word I've learned thus far, I'm sure it is one I will nevertheless use a lot!
