So, for those who have been following along, this is my second attempt at a challenge, in which I said I'd both praise and run Windows 8. Well, I'm following through, here's the YouTube video with the praise, and acting as a down-payment.
If you say you're going to do something, you sure as hell should follow through. As soon as I can realistically do so, I'll post a follow up with my laptop running Windows 8 (or 8.1 if its been released by then).
Anyway, as we're in our last day before I ramp into language learning, I met another tutor on italki, and had an almost non-stop conversation in Spanish for 30 minutes; I did have to look up words, and I made mistakes, but there was no doubt that I was actually speaking Spanish. We discussed my challenge, and my teacher was supportive in saying he'd help me through it, though he's only available on weekends; that's fine though as weekends are the best day IMHO to study :-).
He also said that at least based on my conversational skills I'm a solid A1, which is pretty good considering a week ago, I would have struggled to put any sentences together. Furthermore, that night, I went out to the little deli on the corner, and managed to order a tuna and cheese sandwich, and a coke completely in Spanish, ask how much it cost, and then said good bye with no difficulty.
Yay for ones small victories :-)
If you say you're going to do something, you sure as hell should follow through. As soon as I can realistically do so, I'll post a follow up with my laptop running Windows 8 (or 8.1 if its been released by then).
Anyway, as we're in our last day before I ramp into language learning, I met another tutor on italki, and had an almost non-stop conversation in Spanish for 30 minutes; I did have to look up words, and I made mistakes, but there was no doubt that I was actually speaking Spanish. We discussed my challenge, and my teacher was supportive in saying he'd help me through it, though he's only available on weekends; that's fine though as weekends are the best day IMHO to study :-).
He also said that at least based on my conversational skills I'm a solid A1, which is pretty good considering a week ago, I would have struggled to put any sentences together. Furthermore, that night, I went out to the little deli on the corner, and managed to order a tuna and cheese sandwich, and a coke completely in Spanish, ask how much it cost, and then said good bye with no difficulty.
Yay for ones small victories :-)
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