Before I get to how I honestly, unintentionally got our Spanish teacher Anna blushed in front of the entire class, let’s talk about how I nearly felt asleep during the lesson. I was revamping, relaunching our band’s website http://www.NoEyeCandy.com till two in the morning. See that new banner featured in this post? Besides a list of past events, each of my band member has written up something to share. Most of y’all know about me, I’m sure. But not them, perhaps.
Looking at that list of events – that probably only make sense to me – took me back to the fond memory lane of how our journey started. As we begin to approach event organizers, I think it is a high time to put up something in public. If we do make it, I will open up a new website like I have done it before.
Now, back to my Spanish class, on one hand I appreciate that learning a language involves the absorption of the basic albeit long set of verbs and nouns and grammatical constructs. On the other hand, it has to be fun and relevant to today’s day-to-day life. Correct? While I understand the necessity of going beyond the number 0 to 20 as we have learned in the last lesson, learning a long list of not frequently spoken professions such as milkman and shepherd and even fireman seems a bit dry. So I would – within the scope of the lesson – ask questions to take us beyond the textbook materials.
Questions such as … how to say “happy birthday” in Spanish? Yesterday was Anna’s birthday. The answer is: ¡Felicidades! Feliz cumpleaños and we kept repeating, and repeating the sentence. I would be very happy if the entire class say “happy birthday” to me, even if it is one day late. And then I asked how to sing the “happy birthday” song in Spanish. It is hard to describe in words. The atmosphere was warm and there was lots of laughter. We all sang the birthday song in Spanish a couple of times and got Anna blushing towards the end. For those who are curious how it sounds like, the lyrics is as follows. The third line literally translates to you-we wish-all or in English, we all wish you …
cumpleaños feliz
cumpleaños feliz
te deseamos todos
cumpleaños feliz
7 replies on “Band Website Revamped Relaunched, Plus My 5th Spanish Lesson”
This is interesting. You definitely make the spanish class more interesting than the one I had!
Si Ying – I don’t know … I always think that learning should be fun. Otherwise, knowledge won’t go into our brains, no?
still no clue of what i said in spanish?
i’ll repeat again…
te llamas la cucaracha!
=P
Sylv – Teacher hasn’t taught yet. But with the help from an online translation tool, it doesn’t seem nice. Is it how people swear in Spain?!
actually, i don’t know. my friend who learned spanish taught me that =P
me llamo la mariposa~~ lolz
Sylv – Butterfly sounds much better than cockroach 🙂
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