I give it a 7 out of 10 on the crazy scale, from barhopping with friends on Friday to searching for socks downtown on Saturday, Belltown silliness Saturday night, new friends and old drama Sunday, finally culminating with a solid three hours of Spanish conversation practice Sunday night.
Spanish conversation is exhausting! It mentally and physically exhausts me the same way just going out to bars used to. But I’m optimistic; if two years later I can enjoy myself in a bar, I expect to eventually get to a conversational level in Spanish. After just an hour, I was ready to go but I stuck it out for two more. This year’s resolution of putting more time into learning languages is the only New Year’s resolution I’ve made in my life – I figure I ought to push myself a bit.
Also, at the time this post is going up I am once again top for a google search for “niels”. Take that, Niels Bohr, you are less important than my sock shopping.
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Hey Niels,
I have a couple of questions for you with regards to your technique:
1) Do you ever get tired of the “You look like you’re friendly girls,” line? If so, how do you like to mix it up?
2) How many times do you recommend using it in any given evening? For example, how many times did you use it this past weekend in Belltown? Did it work?
3) Should one actually mean it when they say it or is it really just intended as a device to help size up what you have in front of you?
Cheers in advance y que tengas suerte con la lengua!
You sound suspicious for some reason, but I’ll bite (despite never in my life having said, “you look like you’re friendly girls”)
1) I also tend to say, “Hello!”, “How’s your night going?”, and “I don’t think I’ve met you yet.” Though I don’t use the third much in crowded places because what with my faceblindness there’s a reasonable chance I’ve already met someone and just don’t realize it.
2) I can’t even begin to count the number of people I’ve told they look friendly. I don’t know what you mean by “did it work?” No one’s grabbed me and started making out with me, but I have met a lot of friendly people.
3) I nearly always mean it, but then again, I believe most people want to be friendly. Occasionally I’m wrong, but that’s life.
Yo tambien quiero practicar. No sé quien sea mejor. O si este es la forma corecta. Cuando queres mas practica, me llama.
Yo voy a hacerlo