Comments | karendela_cruz: Snowboarding and Spanish

karendela_cruz

Snowboarding and Spanish

Feb 13, 2005 23:56

I had a fabulous time sleeping and snowboarding and snuggling this weekend. Who knows when it'll happen again? Oh wait. It's happening again next weekend ( Read more... )

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slestialrazbery February 14 2005, 09:30:10 UTC

Ron said something about you being a Rhetoric and Spanish major once. What types of things do you write for Spanish? I took French 102 (Writing and Composition in French) and French 151B (Francophone Literature), and all we wrote about was literature. Most upper div French classes seem to be either literature (most classes), generally about historical/cultural periods/movements (still mostly literature, but with context), about the history of the language (maybe one class offered once every year or two), translation (again just one or two classes), or specialized language (medicine, business). If I take three more upper div French classes, I'll be done with the minor, but I'm not terribly fond of discussing literature, so I'm not sure if I want to do that. I'd also like to pick up another language, but I don't know when. Russian or Arabic would be interesting. Spanish would be practical. Sigh. Too many interesting classes/majors...

The Spanish Major karendela_cruz February 14 2005, 18:47:41 UTC

I think the most shocking thing about the spanish major is realizing that it's just a literature major, like English, except in Spanish... Funny how I didn't realize that until this semester. I took two upper divs last semester on the spanish short story and latin american colonial literature, and I'm taking two more upper divs on advanced composition and latin american film and literature. The Film class is incredibly demanding, requiring multiple viewings of high modernist (read: WTF?!) avant garde movies. It was in the writing class, however, where I had the calm realization that I had never wanted to be this intimate with the language. I never wanted to learn how to be a good writer in Spanish. I want to be a good writer in English! I think I might have a talent, and I'm scared I'm wasting my time reading short stories. I've always pursued spanish classes because I've been in love with the Gomez family for-like-ever, but now everything is getting confused and disappearing and I don't know why I still want the Spanish Major ( ... )