I forgot to tell you about who is in my extra class this week. The teacher is Isa (the one who did the cultural classes in week 1) and there are 2 girls from my conversation class: one from Brazil called Christina and another from Norway called Taru. Their Spanish is of a higher level - they do a separate grammar lesson at level B2. This means that what I am doing with them is much harder - good! We have been studying how to use compound tenses in subordinate clauses expressing causality etc. It is definitely above A level and I am almost in over my head, but holding up just about.
Isa pointed out yesterday that us 3 have different learning styles:
Christina just listens, takes in and does it. Being a portugese speaker helps!
Taru looks confused at first, then suddenly has "ah-ha" moments, when you know she's got it.
I ask lots of questions, constantly checking I have understood and needing examples. Isa says this is because I'm a languages teacher and that she would be the same if she were in my position.
I always stay for the full 90 minutes with Isa - she said it doesn't bother her. What a bargain!
Whilst in town yesterday, I took photos of the traffic lights I told you about.
I felt very silly taking them!
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