7 Ideas For Spanish Immersion

1) Try and write 5 to 10 new vocabulary words down every morning. Use these new vocabulary words in your conversations that day. The more you speak the new words, the easier you can memorize them.

quotes in latin Do not strip away her identity by trying to replace it with your beliefs and culture. Integrate the two together and understand where she is coming from. She might want you to start dance classes or cook her Latin dishes.

The easy one here is it's. It's is always a contraction for it is or it has. "It's (it is) a long way to San Jose" or "It's (it has) been so long since I've visited San Jose." Its, without the apostrophe, is a possessive pronoun, meaning belonging to. "The dog scratched its fur" and never has an apostrophe.

Spanish is (and the other Romance Languages are) directly descended from "street Latin" the version of Latin spoken on the street by the common people of the time. So Spanish and English have common roots in Latin.

latin language Be careful of leaning too hard on Latin grammar. What students gain from learning to write, they lose from speaking as they are so terrified of making grammar mistakes that they do not talk at all. Grammar is an artificial set of rules imposed on English to facilitate very basic written language. Students need to understand the differences between written and spoken English and the power of small fixed groups of words to convey images.

Omnia in numeris sita sunt. These latin words, when translated, reveal to us that "Everything lies veiled in numbers." These words of ancient wisdom let us begin to realize that there is much information hidden in numbers. In ancient times, symbols were used to represent thoughts and objects; today we still use many symbols to communicate, even though today we call them numbers and letters.

Although most people in the United States live in houses and apartments, a significant number of people live on boats. In some ways, life is different from living on land. Land dwellers do not need to think about checking that the boat is securely tied to the dock or having the barnacles scraped every six months.