Did reflexive verbs (like como se llama? Equivalent to "what do you call yourself?" - reflexive verbs act on yourself, as opposed to someone else) today in Spanish class - again, it's just like doing French class, when I was in school - I remember doing reflexive verbs, which always seemed to involve cleaning and washing yourself! I feel like I'm learning, not just Spanish, but about grammar in general, that's if I can apply it to the English language, whe...

I was still absolutely shattered when I got up, now that I've started to catch up on sleep. think the teacher was a bit impatient and annoyed with me for not being faster on the uptake. We discussed the day before at the market, Saquisili, and went through the preferred indefinite past tense. I'm beginning to find Spanish is a very logical language but you have to be very good at listening because some of the conjugations of the verbs are very similar and i...

Today, I took the option of going to the indigenous market, Saquisili, with the school instead of having lessons in the morning. The market here is only open on Thursday and is by the indigenas for the indigenas, where they come from all over to gather here, for both trade and social reasons. There are 7 plazas, which specialise in different things, such as large livestock: cows, goats, llamas (yes, llamas - not many admittedly, definitely there, saw one) an...

This morning's class we had an impromptu lesson in herbs (hierbas) where I got shown mint, spearmint, rosemary, oregano, lemon verbena and rue, and got asked what I knew about them and their medicinal properties. Said I knew that they had medicinal properties but that I was more familiar with their uses in cooking. I was told about their different properties and uses by the Ecuadorians, such as that rue (ruda) is used near entrances as it is believed that they ...

Started the Spanish lessons yesterday morning - four hours of intensive one-on-one tutoring, in the morning. Had conversations in Spanish that I can't do in English, let alone construct sentences in Spanish for, such as what does the UK import and export, produce, cultivate, etc, going right onto what my normal routine at home would be! However, I felt that I didn't do too badly considering I've only ever done one term at school a long time ago. My pronuniciat...