The story of my Spanish speech impediment
ughhh speech impediments. Maybe its not a bad one, but non-the-less it is one. If you've ever heard me say "ruined" or the name "Stewart" in english, you know what I'm talking about. Whats the deal with the R? My tongue cant do that -RU sound too well. Well... its even WORSE in spanish- not worse, but so many more words have that R sound... common words too that you use everyday!
verduRas (vegetables) veRde (green) peRdon (excuse me) taRde (late)
In this case its the RD that haunts me. Yesterday, me and Bryan went to Chinatown to get , what else, but chinese food, which by the way is so much better down here than back home. It seems a lot lighter and "cleaner" tasting if that makes sense. Anyway, I had to ask the lady if I could have chinese vegetables sauteed with ginger instead of garlic. The sentence had 3 of my "words" in it. It was awful. Im sure it was worse listening to me studder through it. "PERDON, podria tener las VERDURAS VERDES, pero salteado en gengibre en vez de ajo?" The R comes out sounding like the -er in "very", which is pretty wrong sounding. So now I walk around all day reciting my list of words out loud to myself , on the streets-before I go to bed- in the subway- waiting for coffee- in the shower- when I see something green, hoping that one time it'll magically get better. Can you imagine if you passed me doing that? Id for sure sound like a bozo whispering weird words to myself. I even make Bryan say "the words" over and over slowly and then I try and repeat it. Its driving him crazy, I know it is, like, "One more time, veeeRRdddeee. Okay, now do it again. Hmm I didnt quite catch it, can you say it again?"
Oh and the picture is Bryan jamming out in the hammock on our balcony with his guitar (although you cant see it). Im so excited to finally have my own hammock! For some reason, Ive been wanting one for a couple of years and that submarine looking window you see in the background, is the window to the sauna in our room. Its kind of cool having it submarine-y like, it makes you feel like you're at the beach or on the dock of a boat or something.
Besides my speech impediment and the hammock. Nothing really has been going on that is "wow" worthy. I pretty much just go to language school everyday for 4 hours... trying to cram in as much as I can before real school starts in August! Yikes! I don't think Ive put this in the blog, haha Im so dorky I can't believe I "blog", Im a "blogger".
Anyway, I'm going to go to grad school down here at a private university for 2 years, La Universidad de Palermo, to get my MBA in Entertainment and Media. It sounds like I'm trying to conquer American Idol, but I'm not. Its more like the business part of the music industry, well thats what I want to put it towards. Since its an MBA program, the students are older, they've already had real jobs for a couple of years. I've only been an intern and the average enrollment age is 29! I went to the "Welcome Oreintation" and everyone except me and this girl from Korea were native spanish speakers. So, Im kind of nervous. But hopefully, only the native spanish speakers showed up to the orientation that day. haha.
Mmm what else, if youre feeling adventurous and want to rent a spanish movie, rent Valentin. The little boy is so cute.
* This is one of my favorite commercials... its for Coca Cola
Watch it: You'll love it, you have to.
Bryans favorite commercial here:
Another good one: (Mercado Libre is the Ebay of Argentina)
love you and im so jealous of all of yall with summer heat and tans :)
elise
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