learning Espanol

Los hombres estan bailando.
(The men are dancing.)
El hombre y el nino estan andando en la bicicleta.
(The man and the boy are riding on the bicycle.)
La mujer el nino tienen una pelota encima de la cabeza.
(The woman and the boy have balls on their heads.)
Las bananas estan en la carta.
(The bananas are in the crate.)

You can learn these fascinating phrases (and more!) with the Rosetta Stone. I'm on a two day crash course. Picking up basic listening and reading skills fairly well. Speaking will be whole new adventure...

Also, there are pictures on the Lawn at UVA in the version of the program I'm using, and I think I may have found a picture of myself from the eighth grade. I'm not kidding, I actually think this is me. Who else here had a regular outfit of pink and purple umbros and a teal tee-shirt?

the place I leave behind

Oxford St, Cambridge MA

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