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Chilling out...

I am chilling out on a rooftop bar in Lisbon.

OK, I used Google Translate to translate the sentence, but this doesn't look quite right...

Soy de refrigeración en la azotea, un bar en Lisboa.

So...I changed 'chilling out' to 'relaxing'...and this is what I got

Estoy relajado en un bar en la azotea Lisboa

relax - relajarse

rooftop - azotea

and I found that there is no translation for 'chill out'

New resources...

This is an absolutely wonderful new online resource for Alice...Learn Spanish from the Guardian.
Alice just downloaded all 4 episode for her iPod upload...she is going to listen to them on her trip to UK and Portugal next week.

Blue sky

It is unusual to have a whole week of clear blue sky...I looked up the words from Dr. Seuss's Spanish dictionary...and Google Translate

el cielo es azul

Eriza

Alice finally got this wonderful camera, Digital Harinezumi!

Harinezumi is a Japanese term for hedgehog, the Spanish equivalent is eriza.

Alice uses eriza, not erizo, because she also has a little female hedgehog!

Practiced pronunciation

OK, Alice practiced the pronunciation with Professor Jason's video...now go back and practice a couple more time...

one word learnt...
ayer - yesterday

Espanol penpal...awaiting

OK...very exciting...Alice just joined an online penpal group from Tomisimo, she is waiting for some responses!!!

Lio en Espanol

Actually this is a rather strange concept to have Lio in Spanish. Lio is supposed to be a comics that does not rely on word for humor. Anyway, these are words that I found

Hormiga - ant
Hormigas - ants

Lesson 1: Pronunication

Phil suggested that Alice should get a lesson in pronunciation first. As all good learners, the first place to hit is YouTube. She now subscribes to this channel. With an American teaching, Alice also doesn't need to decide which Spanish she is going to learn.

1. Video searched from YouTube;
2. the pronunciation video downloaded via YouTube Downloader; and
   
3. watched half of the video.
   

Learning Spanish

It is definite...Alice is learning some Spanish...it has taken her 2 years to actually to get to it. The original idea was that she was going to start learning with the freak boy, but now, it has been 2 year (or a year?) since he started, and Alice is still not doing anything.

Alice knows herself to be a relatively laid-back person and she absolutely hates grammar, so there is not going to be any formal Spanish classes. Here is her only principle in this exploration:

Learn through popular cultural texts and digitally mediated texts

OK, the definition of popular cultural text is going to be quite loose. Anything that Alice found to be associated with popular culture, particularly those not specifically designed for foreign language learners and any online materials (must be free and available to the widest possible audience).