Subte Spanish

Today I was running out of time to watch Bueno, entonces... Learn Spanish at home, so I watched it on my ipod on the Subte. What a brilliant feature: I know that other Learn Spanish programmes, such as RosettaStone, do not have portable capability, so if I was using that particular dvd I would not have learnt ANY Spanish today! and I don't think a human teacher would agree to a lesson on the Subte, so Bueno, entonces... Learn Spanish is ideal for the 'busy student'.

Today's lesson was the telephone catch up, and also David's Birthday...I certainly won't be studying on my birthday here in BA, but I suppose it was a good way to learn Feliz Cumpleanos!

I have been continually confused since being here about the usage of 'Castellano' and 'Espanol' which seemed to me both to describe the Spanish language and I didn't know the difference (I know I could have asked someone ages ago, but often I spend alot of time wondering and not enough time finding out). Today's Bueno, entonces... Learn Spanish explained the difference to me- the difference not being much. Castellano comes from the Castilla region of Spain and is referring the language of the region, where as Espanol is used to describe the Spanish people, so although both are used to describe the Spanish language, only one really refers to a language as such (this garbled description demonstrates why I am not a teacher!)

Catch up lessons are game lessons, and once again Jimena had Did playing some random but quite amusing Spanish games, which, as per usual, he managed to turn into cheesy chat ups! The cat up lessons are good because they incorporate everything that has been covered in the week's classes, so this week the games included colours, descriptions, food, weather and so on...Well I suppose the title 're-cap lesson' is pretty self explanatory!