Don't be timid to have conversations in Spanish.
- After this last summer I started being active on SpanishDict. again. There have been several posts from my friends here about being too timid to have conversations in Spanish. Some have stated that they are afraid of making mistakes. So.. I thought I would post a story I told yesterday in the steam room at the gym -- often the conversations are in Spanish. (You all know by now I like to tell stories.)
(A little background: We were all 8 years old. The girls had to wear a dress or a skirt, the boys had to wear a shirt with a collar, and long pants -- usually blue jeans or corduroys with the pant legs rolled up. We all had to walk or ride our bikes to school. Most of the boys had a baseball mit hanging on the handle bars of our bikes. There was no cafeteria, we all brought our own lunch and ate lunch at our desk in the class room. I had a cool "Zorro" lunch box.)
- This is just they way I told the story (un-edited) and how I have conversations in Spanish -- this has all the errors that I make all the time. But I am understood!
Cuando estuve en tercero clase de escuela -- mil-nuevecientos-cinquenta y nueve -- (1959) mi amigo Brian llegó en problema por siendo tonto y bobo. La maestra puso Brian en su ropero detrás su escritorio. Luego quince minutos, más o menos, ella dijo, - Ok Brian usted puede salir. - Pero no había un respondó de dentro el ropero. De nuevo la maestra dijo ""Ok Brian usted puede salir." Y un otra vez no había un respondó. La maestra se levantó de su silla y abria la puerta del ropero. Cuando todos vieron Brian nosotros todo reido. Allí en el ropero Brian estaba comiendo el almuerzo de la maestra.
English Translation:
- When I was in the third grade -- (1959) -- my buddy Brian got in trouble for being silly and goofy. The teacher put Brian in her closet behind her desk. After 15 minutes, more or less, she said, "Ok Brian you can come out." But there was no response from inside the closet. Again the teacher said, "Ok Brian you can come out." And again there was no response. The teacher got up from her chair and opened the closet door. When everyone saw Brian we all laughed. There in the closet Brian was eating the teachers lunch.
Happy Thanksgiving -- and have a conversation in Spanish. If I can do it -- anyone can!
3 Answers
¡Que bien historia! Podemos aprender mucho de tu ejemplo, Daniel.
Muy gracioso, Daniel!!!
Thanks, Daniel, what a great story!!
