20 Preguntas

For today's homework we were back to Dreaming Spanish YouTube channel. Anouska got me started on his Let's Play Games Series. In this one he teaches his friend how to play the classic '20 Questions' game. Though he does stray from the traditional yes/no answers to give his friend a hand. It's a great game to play when you're practicing with people learning the same language or even exchanging languages. I've used this in an intercambio breakout room once or twice. Plus it doesn't require any technology!

Last night I reviewed Language Transfer Tracks #39 and #40. Every day I try to do the assigned tracks plus review two tracks from a day or two before. It seems to help lock in the concepts a little better. In these tracks he reviews prepositions or Mihalis pronounces them PRE-positions as Joyce pointed out in her blog. I'm not sure if that's on purpose either. 

• with - con
• for - para
• of, from - de

He comments that prepositions are used more often in English than in Spanish and in time, we will eventually drop them from our Spanish.

Another interesting point is the change in the uses of prepositions in different languages. 

• I think about you - Pienso en ti, (I think in you)
• I fall in love with you - Me enamoro de ti (I fall in love of you)

He's said more than once that "Language is permitting and requiring us to perceive and express the world in a certain way" Which I guess is his way of saying thinking about what might have been going on to cause the differences between languages. He's an interesting guy, don't you think?