I have enjoyed blogging during this semester of Spanish II. It opens me up to the real world more than Facebook or texting  does because you have to be more professional about what you say and how you say it. Embedding my work on my blog makes me nervous because i know that anyone can see it and if I mess up on something I would be kind of embarrassed, especially since I’m  using this blog for a second language class.  I feel fine when others comment on my blog post because if I do mess up, then I would want to be told what I did wrong or if I did a good job I would want to be told so. Blogging could be beneficial for me in the future. It has taught me to be more professional about what i say online, and that could help me with my jobs in the future. In the second semester, I think I would like to do more avatars and recordings because its new and makes learning this language fun.

           Summary of Post

During the first semester of Sapnish II, we covered vocabulary and grammar structures dealing with our daily routines for getting ready to go somewhere. We also learned what a reflexive verb is. You use reflexive verbs when talking about doing something with or to yourself. For example: “I wash my face.” “Yo levarme la cara.”

           Mi Voki de Mi Rutina Diaria

In the third six weeks of Spanish II, we have been creating an avatar on www.voki.com which explains our daily routine that we go through every morning before school. After creating my avatar, I was required to write a script of my daily routine that my voki avatar would say over the internet. We were allowed to take the rough drafts of our scripts to our teacher, where she would read over it, circle the errors, and send us away to correct them until the script was perfect. Next, I had to recite my script aloud to myself several times, practicing pronunciation of the words to get a nice, easy flowing description. When I was confident in my pronunciation, I logged onto my voki account and and had them call me on my cell phone so I could recite my script which recorded onto my voki avatar. I then saved and published my avatar onto my account, sent my avatar to my teacher by eamil, and embeded it onto my blog. This assignment counts as my six weeks test grade.

          Thoughts On Voki.com

I really did enjoy this project, it was entertaining  and opened up a new door to make such a tedious task enjoyable. I’ve never used the internet in any class as much as I do in Spanish II and I have never created an avatar for any class. I would much rather record my voice over the phone onto an avatar as opposed to making a speech in front of a class. This project definately taught me that learning a new language isn’t only about memorizing vocabulary words, but also about correct pronunciation.

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In the first semester, we learned the present tense, immediate future, tener que, and present progressive forms of sentences. Present tense is used when reporting action that does happen.  Immediate future is used when saying what you are going to do. Tener que is used when saying what you have to do. And present progressive is used when using a gerund or -ing type of verb.  We used the Stixy website to create a project using this knowledge in Spanish.

Here is the link to my stixy board: Verb Tense Review

After reviewing adjectives, I did a project describing my favorite person. I used the Stixy website and uploaded pictures of my favorite person. I wrote sentences in spanish describing this person using the verb “ser”.

Here is the link to my board:  Usher

In the second six weeks we learned basic sentence form. I made a slide show on www.slide.com with some of my favorite things.