Telenovelas Principles Described 56426
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You want to learn to speak Spanish, Mom?" My 12-year old girl asked me over breakfast the other day. I nodded and smiled at her. "But who will you speak Spanish with? There is no one that we know speaks Spanish." She's got a point there. When I was young, my first introduction to a foreign language, which was English, started in my kindergarten class. We sang nursery rhymes like Baa Baa Black Sheep, Hickory Dickory Dock, London Bridge, and many more. My favourite was Mary Had A Little Lamb. I used to imagine being Mary and running around with a pet lamb. But what really burnt into my memory was the picture of the cute snowy lamb from the book. In actual fact I have never seen a live lamb before.
When I grew older and had my own kids, I came across on the television some very interesting telenovelas from Latin America like "Secreto De Amor" and "Betty Le Fea". All these telenovelas were in Spanish. I loved watching them, but having to rely on the not so perfect sub-titles somehow killed the fun. Worse still, there were times when the local tv station would dub the show into the national language. The drama and the 'fire' in the telenovelas just did not get ignited. I would rather watch them in Spanish even though I did not understand what they were saying. Anyway, that was where all the action and drama were, in the Spanish language itself.
I wanted to learn Spanish so that I can enjoy the telenovelas better. So I went online, surfed the net and found some online courses. But learning a new language and having no one to talk to in Spanish made learning more difficult. Thus, I tried the fun way. I downloaded some Spanish songs plus their lyrics in Spanish and their translation in English. I then started to do a karaoke bit and thus made learning the language much more enjoyable. Hence, I initiated the slow but interesting road to learning to speak Spanish.
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