My Third Spanish Class in Madrid

Por favor, no pintar ^^

The teacher came late. Roughly after 10 minutes. My class is every Thursday from 7.30pm to 9.30pm and 2 hours is pretty long if you only understand less than half of what being discussed in the class. T__T

Tonight we continued from the page 19 of Nivel Elemental Español 2000.

We started off with changing the sentence from singular to plural form. I managed, somehow..pheww. After that, the teacher asked us to repeat the numbers in Spanish.

Uno, dos, tres....and etc. Since everyone has to repeat from number one to 50 and we have about 11 attendees today so I daydreamed a bit.

It went like this..four, tres, two, uno......lalalala...the Fergie of Black Eyed Peas's song 'Fergalicious' kept repeating in my mind.

Let's get serious.I will list down the numbers here and read ONLY if and only if you are interested.

1- uno

2- dos

3- tres

4- cuatro

5- cinco

6- seis

7- siete

8- ocho

9- nueve

10- diez

11- once

12- doce

13- trece

14- catorce

15- quince

16- dieciseis

17- diecisiete

18- dieciocho

19- diecinueve

20- veinte

21- veintiuno

22- veintidos

23- veintitres

24- veinticuatro

25- veinticinco

26- veintiseis

27- veintisiete

28- veintiocho

29- veintinueve

30- treinta

31- treinta y uno

32- treinta y dos

33- treinta y tres

34- treinta y cuatro

35- treinta y cinco

36- treinta y seis

37- treinta y siete

38- treinta y ocho

39- treinta y nueve

40- cuarenta

41- cuarenta y uno

42- cuarenta y dos

43- cuarenta y tres

44- cuarenta y cuatro

45- cuarenta y cinco

46- cuarenta y seis

47- cuarenta y siete

48- cuarenta y ocho

49- cuarenta y nueve

50- cincuenta

There you go...but of course you should learn how to pronounce the letter in Spanish first. You can go to this site that I'm currently using as another learning material.

On another story, I met an Egyptian American and a Polish girl in the Metro Madrid on the way to Legazpi Station today.

Both of them had a conversation in English and I just couldn't help myself but to speak to them. The guy has stayed around four years and the girl has stayed 10 years in Madrid.

We discussed about learning Spanish and both of them assured me that I will be able to converse in Spanish pretty fast as I speak English.

Hmm...I am quite motivated to learn now! Hehehe...after getting some motivation from pure strangers. Both of them love Madrid...well, the Madrid now is kinda chaotic with the workers strike and the economic issues.

As they said that any city, any country has their own set of problems. However, in Spain there are so many fiestas (festivals) where they had had fun which made leaving Spain is a hard thing to do and decided to stay for long.

I just hope that I will eventually fall in love with Spain. I fell head over heel with South Korea but I am pretty sure that my love for Spain is kinda like burning amber, slow but longer lasting, just like them.