Posted by sigismund on March 19, 2018, at 19:33:44
In reply to Re: Hi there friends » sigismund, posted by Clearskies on March 17, 2018, at 23:49:26
>When you were teaching ESL?
I've never done it formally. Since I have learned intermediate level Spanish (newspapers are fine) I have a better understanding of English grammar. The friends who have helped me with my Spanish I help with their English. Very fortunately my Spanish is better than their English so we do not default to English. I just had this strong desire to learn a second language.
I was reading "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" in Spanish because I like Saramago and Portuguese is so close to Spanish I thought I would have more sense of the original. In one chapter Joseph doesn't protest enough when he gets rounded up by mistake and is then crucified due to institutional inertia. It was only at the end of the chapter, 30 pages alter, that I realised. It's a different way of reading, with lots of attention to verb endings.
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