We Are Crazy!

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!