Guys,

I was thinking about the advanced Spanish class that I was taking. When I first took Spanish, I had these very high expectations that by the time I would be in Advanced Spanish, I would be an expert in the area. Many people, including myself, though and some still think that if we take any language courses that wil be speaking great Spanish, only to learn that that is not, most times the case. Even though I'am in Advanced Spanish, I'm not confident to hold a decent conversaton with a Spanish speaking person as of yet. If there is one thing that I've learned from fluent Spanish speakers Non-american and especially, American is that the true bilingual education doesn't come from the books, it comes from the out side environment.

What worries me about it is being able to speak in the right way far as the pronouciations and tenses far as them being past, present and past participle and things like that. Just imagine me taking about a situation and I speak Spanish about something in the present and they are talking about something in the past. Another thing that I learned about Spanish is that even among Spanish people, not all forms or dialets aren't always accepeted by all Spanish -speaking people. One of my classmates swear that the Argentines are arrogant( he is Latino of Panamian descent. I didn't say this he did , as I'm always thinking two fold) He took a look at our Spanish books and swear by the grace of god that our books aren't correct. Even my own African-American bred teacher said the same thing about some people of Argentima. Oh well! I don't know so I won't judge. But anyways, learning Spanish or any other language will have to be learned in the real Spanish world. In graduate school( wheneverwill decide to go) I have to take 2 more language classes, but along with that, I wil continue to read Spanish newpapers, watchTELEMUNDO or UNIVISION, practice speaking Spanish with otherSpanish speaking people to get a bigger grasp of.Learning the true language of Spanish or any language take time and while the book is all good, we cannot put time on when well become fluent in the language that is up to us and how badly we want to learn it.

Several of my classmates and my teachers a studying in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and Spain. I wish that I could go with them because some of them have already been there and really enjoyed themselves. I want to go to Panama or Senegal. If I'm not mistaken some of those guys along with Wolof and French speaks some Portuguese and that may be helpful if I ever visit there( what a beautiful country). So I'm glad that I'm taking this Spanish course. Eventually, I would like to take French. If my friend and I stay together that long, I may ask him to teach me about. Man ! I hear so many people say that French is such a hard language to master. I didn't see it that way. may because I only learned the little basics of it.