Hey everyone! Its been a while since my last blog post, we’ve been in Medillin just under a week now, last weekend we just had a walk around to get our bearings and on Monday we started Spanish school at Nueva Lengua language school.
We initally decided to stay for a weeks course, but we’ve really enjoyed our lessons and feel like we’ve made so much progress, so we decided to stay for another week of lessons. Unfortunatly that’s not very interesting blog wise, as we spend 9am-1pm in school and then 2pm-4pm doing self study and homework and then just chill with a few beers in the evening.
We have met some really nice people on our course and el Poblado, the area of Medillin were staying in is super lively and fun and were out most evenings.
The spanish itself is going well, although it was frustraiting at first to have to re-learn a lot of words for things, the spanish is here is different to the spanish (used in spain) which we learnt before we came away. So words are different for things, telling the time is different and even the way you pronounce words. Words with ‘ll’ go from a y sound to a j sound here (Medellin is Med-e-jin). But once we got used to that it beacame a bit easier and were finally starting to put sentances together! It’s actually a lot harder than it sounds! As in spanish as well as having I/you/he/she/we/they you also have to change the ending of each verb, this is not so bad if it is a regular verb but for some verbs there is no pattern, so for each verb you learn you have to memorise 5 versions of it and thats just for the present tense! Theres another lot for past and future tenses and you also have to watch your pronunciation or you end up accidently saying something rude. But we’re finally starting to get it, so even though the course is very intense it’s worth it.
I appreciate this post isnt the most exciting so I’ll let you in on some interesting mistakes we’ve made/learnt so far in spanish….turns out spanish speakers are obsessed with all things rude…
Cuantos años tienes- how old are you? / Cuantos anos tienes- how many anuses do you have?
Estoy – I am, caliente -hot / Estoy caliente – im horny
Me caigo – I fall / me cago – I shit myself
Estoy – I am, buenos – good / estoy buenos – im sexy
Necesita una paja – I need a straw or I need a wank
