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Thirsty for that Spanish fluency lmao, not even close tho. (side note: I also want to pick up mandarin soon)

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Sorry that I haven’t been uploading recently I’ve just been busy with uni preparations and stuff. I’m hoping to do some more Spanish stuff soon but in the meantime I’ve been starting to re-learn some basic Mandarin Chinese. The education system I was in “tried” to teach me Chinese throughout primary school but we never actually got to constructing even the most basic of phrases. So the language seems familiar even though I didn’t actually learn much of it previously.

The colours have been used to show what the brush stroke order is for each character. So far I’ve only learnt some basic vocab for food and weather as well as I have studied some ‘kangxi radicals’. I believe that the kangxi radicals are the smaller characters/symbols within full Chinese words/characters. So they are very useful to know as they can give hints to a unfamiliar character’s meaning. (I hope that made sense) I’m excited to learn more but I’ll have to find another app/resource to teach me Mandarin grammar because the app that I’m currently using only teaches vocab.

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Sr. Leo Pardo

Letras de Disney, Anime, Caricaturas Covers. Suscribete

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I’ve been using this YouTube channel to listen to the Spanish versions of the soundtrack from the 1997 film Anastasia. This channel uploads the Spanish dubbed songs with lyrics for other Spanish speakers so it’s a fun and familiar way to practice your listening and reading skills!

Here are some songs that I recommend (though I already love their English versions too):

i. Una Vez en Diciembre : Once Upon a December (Anastasia)

ii. Una Noche Fatal : In the Dark of the Night (Anastasia)

iii. Colores en el Viento : Colours of the Wind (Pocahontas)

iv. Hombres de Accion : I’ll Make a Man out of You (Mulan)

v. Mi Reflejo : Reflection (Mulan)

vi. Esto es Halloween : This is Halloween (The Nightmare before Christmas)

vii. Él no es del Clan : He is Not One of Us (Lion King 2)

viii. De Nada : You’re Welcome (Moana)

ix. Sabia es Mamá : Mother Knows Best (Tangled)

x. Veo en Ti la luz : At last I see the Light (Tangled)

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Spanish Vocabulary Master-List

These are some of the most important pieces of Spanish Vocab that I picked up while playing the Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle game for the Nintendo Switch. 

Highly Relevant Vocab

La Batalla ............................... The Battle

(El) Aliado ............................... The Ally ; (To Be) Allied

El Daño .................................. The Damage

Los Habilidades ..................... The Abilities

El Luchador ............................ The Fighter

El Tirador ................................ The Shooter

La Sanadora ........................... The Healer ; The Curer

La Bonificación ....................... The Bonus

La Victoria ............................... The Victory

El Disparo ................................ The Shot

La Maldad ............................... The Evil (noun)

El Escudo ................................ The Shield

El Secuestro ............................ The Kidnapping

Dañar ....................................... To Damage

Disparar ................................... To Shoot

Derrotar ................................... To Defeat

Reiniciar .................................. To Restart ; To Begin Again

Reanudar ................................. To Resume

Teletransportar ........................ To Teleport

Rescatar .................................. To Rescue

Secuestrar ............................... To Kidnap

Forzar ....................................... To Force

Estar Desarmado ..................... To Be Armed

Personal Faves

El Carámbano ........................... The Icicle

Los Cabezazos ......................... The Headbutts

Las Pesadillas ........................... The Nightmares

El Foco ...................................... The Spotlight ; The Focus

La Cera ..................................... The Wax

Los Trofeos ............................... The Trophies

Morder ...................................... To Bite

Fijar ........................................... To Fix

Roncar ...................................... To Snore

Menos Mal ................................ It’s a Good Thing... (that...)

Estar en Medio de .................... To Be in the Middle of... (something)

Estoy en Racha ......................... I’m on a Roll

Juro por mi Vida ....................... I Swear on my Life

En Un Santiamén ...................... In a Flash

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I started a Spanish journal where I write about random things once a week to maintain my writing skills. To be honest my first entry ‘Si Mis Mascotas Fueran Los Humanos’ did not really challenge my abilities at all, I kept it pretty safe haha. I am running my writing through Microsoft Word just to make sure I’ve put the accents over the correct letters however there are probably still some mistakes here and there. I’ll try writing something a bit more out of my comfort zone next time.

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So this is the final page of my various Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle vocab lists. Now I can say I have completed a game in another language! The final world of the game was called ‘Foso De Lava’ or ‘Lava Pit’ in the English version. Overall I thought the game was fun (fun enough to play through twice) and I think that there is a really good mixture of dialogue/story and puzzles/battles. The story elements give you the vocab and the battles give you a breather in between mountains of vocab. If you own the game already and are learning another language then you should switch the language and learn some new vocab! The language options are English, French, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese (Simplified), Mandarin Chinese (Traditional), German, Dutch and Russian.

Btw I’m also feeling good because I have completed all the language goals I set for January.

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Firstly I just want to apologise for the image quality on this post. The lighting is off because I took it in the late afternoon and tried to fix it by using a lamp. I was supposed to photograph this page and upload it a while ago but I’ve been letting a few too many lazy days slip. Anyways it’s here now! The Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle vocab page for its third world ‘Senderos Siniestros’.

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Mario and Rabbid’s second world ‘Sherbet Desert’ or ‘Desierto Sorbete’ did not have much new vocab so not all the selected words are super relevant to the game. I’ve finished the third world now and will soon be completing the final world of the game… meaning I have almost completed my first game in a second language! I’ve decided that when I do complete the game I will also make a condensed list of some of my favorite new vocab that I learned. To avoid repeating myself and wasting paper I will type out the list into Tumblr itself instead of making a physical list in my Spanish book.

I meant to post this the other day but my photos weren’t uploading to Tumblr properly.

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January Language Goals

Salvador Dali’s ‘The Elephants’ (1948)

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I decided to formally set and post my January language goals here so that I feel more motivated to stick to them.

i. Finish the Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle game in Spanish

I’ve just finished World 2, ‘Sherbet Desert’, and I think there are only four worlds total so this is a pretty easy goal. I’m excited because it will be the first time I’ve completed a game that’s not in my native language!

ii. Start playing one of the Pokemon games in Spanish

Pokemon would be a longer commitment than Mario + Rabbids but I still want to give it a shot (thus why the goal is only to start it lol). Additionally, there’s a lot more reading involved in Pokemon than in M+R... wish me luck.

iii. Read another two chapters of James y El Melocotón Gigante

I’ve never read a full length book in another language before which is one of my more long-term goals. For January I want to read another two chapters at least. I’m currently at Chapter 5, the chapters vary wildly in length so this goal could either be very easy or a little difficult.

iv. Create a Spanish journal to improve / maintain my writing abilities

Yesterday I realised that I haven’t been maintaining my writing abilities for Spanish over the holidays. So I decided that I should use my mini art journal (that I intended to use for Spanish anyways) to write about random stuff in order to maintain my writing skill. I’ll probably end up posting some of my writing here too!

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This is just some vocab that I’ve taken note of from playing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle on the switch. Obviously I wrote down a lot more than this but I chose to do an artsy page on these words because they were either important to the game, reoccurring or just interesting to me personally. This vocab list is from the first world you complete called ‘ancient gardens’ or ‘jardines antiguos’ in Spanish. I have finished the second world too so I’ll probably create and upload the next vocab list from this game soon. I hope this is at least slightly legible, my Vs and Rs tend to look similar. 


I don’t want my first post to be too long so I might do a proper self-introduction in a later post. :)