Midterm over
La profesora was kind and said that my correcting my own errors showed that I knew the material but simply lacked practice. Indeed, it’s hard to practice speaking. I am trying out a month of LoMásTV to see whether that will improve my listening comprehension, but not quite sure about the speaking. I did trying talking to myself, and I think that will work as I gain more vocabulary. I’m starting a new Anki deck of words that I have to look up. This morning, I learned, “grava” does not mean the adjective “grave” (meaning “serious”), but rather “la grava” is the word for gravel. The Spanish word for “grave” turns out to be “grave” (only said with Spanish pronunciation and in two syllables and a bit of a trill on the “r”).
At any rate, I now am on Spring break. I celebrated by getting a hair cut rather than having an enormous plate of food. I did, however, just have a very tasty meal of a sardine/rice IFC meal, and tonight I’ll make a Dover sole meal, I think with pasta.
