Cow tongue didn't work

Fri 5-17-07
Just thought I'd let you know that eating cow tongue didn't help. I and the other students in the house had hoped that eating the tongue of a Spanish cow would help our own tongues to speak the language better. Nope...didn't work.

What did work is some of the tricks I made up to learn some of my vocabulary words. Picture this...in my notebook I drew a crude picture of an oven with the little window on front...and showed a horn (like from a bull) inside the oven. Got it in your head? Well, the word for oven in Spanish is " el horno"...ta dah...get it? Next picture...I drew a microwave and inside it's little window I drew several small Honda motorcycles. Wanna guess? The word for microwave in Spanish is microondas (almost micro hondas...well it worked for me). Since that day a week ago I've been tidal waved by gazillions of more words, and there aren't enough tricks in the world that can help I'm afraid. Sometimes this Spanish language thing makes me want to put my head into a wall. Let me give you one (of the possible zillion) examples: If any verb ends in "zar" such as the Spanish verb "almorzar" meaning to have lunch (a very important word!), then I must remember that the "zar" changes to "ce", but only if I want to say "I have lunch" and only in present tense, (not if you, he, she or we have or had or will have lunch). Got the idea? Like I said...I could put my head into a wall at times just due to the crazy rules.

I'll have my Grade A test on Tuesday. It has 6 pages (90 something questions) and an oral component where a person reads you a paragraph in Spanish then asks you questions to see if I comprehended it. Yeah, right!