Ingles en Español

So we have begun our English classes. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we teach a group of 25 6th graders beginner English from 9-10, and from 10-11 we teach two students who are more advanced. Their names are Jefry and Yanega. Yanega is 25, and Jefry is like 13 or something. Yanega knows more, but she is helpful with Jefry helping him to understand things and encouraging him to write in his notebook.

The biggest challenge of teaching English here, is that we hardly know enough Spanish to teach beginners English. Key phrases we are learning: practice with a partner (sometimes still a lost concept to our students), answer the question (when we prompt them with a question like ¨What is your name?¨ A common response is either them repeating the same phrase after us, or ¨My name is...¨ and they don´t tell us their name, just say the phrase). All issues that are very minor. It is overall fun and the students listen well and eagerly jot things into their notebooks. We might have some classes in the afternoon, but that is still developing.

Tomorrow is our first swim class, we are currently looking up and studying words like, hold your breath, straight like a board, paddle, kick, and float. We are both just eager to swim ourselves.

And I will leave you with some insider Spanish
¿Que honda? means ¨What´s the groove?¨
Tuany means ¨Cool¨
Va pues means ¨Go then¨ or just ¨Good-bye¨ more generally
And here we generally say Adio, sans ¨s¨, so ¡ADIO!