Spanish lesson this morning. On the way to Wondertree, we listened to the first track of a Pimsleur Spanish cd (Skye and I had used this when we were learning Spanish 10 years ago). Austin was learning entiendo and entiende/entiende? The cd introduced us to hablo castillano, and Austin substituted yo hablo espanol. He is grasping verb conjugation quite easily, and complained that Spanish is so similar to French, that he might get confused.
Gloria sent Austin home with a few verbs to conjugate himself. He likes to see the exceptions (ie. mover to yo muevo) in which the root (ie. "respir" of "respirar") has to first be converted before the verb can be conjugated.
Austin tried to use his new vocabulary in a short conversation with Gloria this morning. She is observing that Austin wants more than she has planned for the classes, and she is finding ways to accommodate him in the context of what she is teaching. It's wonderful to witness the creativity in this exercise.
Gloria is teaching new vocabulary words in the house (la casa), and using props. The attached picture shows Austin's drawing of the house. They would place the corresponding props into the rooms of Austin's house drawing, as they built their vocabulary.
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