Español. Learning Spanish in Perth

Mi corazón saltó cuando encontré esta obra de Frankie en la State Library de Western Australia. ¡Alguien más está aprendiendo español en Perth!

[My heart jumped when I found this Frankie's sketchbook in the State Library of Western Australia. ¡Somebody else is learning Spanish in Perth!]☺️💓

Recuerdo de una divertida clase de español con mi estudiante en Perth, WA. ¡Reímos mucho!
[A memory of a fun Spanish class with my student in Perth, WA. We laugh a lot!]

**Step-by-step** 3/3. 🎶
First learn to stress the words.
This is one key to learn after to put the tilde accent on the words.
Advice: check my last three posts also.

Listen the cover by The Beatles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJwAGFgcVdo
Photo: The great kiss in Rottnest Island, WA. 2023.

**Step-by-step** 2/3. 🎶
First learn to stress the words.
This is one key to learn after to put the tilde accent on the words.
Advice: check my last two posts also.

[Translation proposal]
Where are you, darling
Yesterday I looked for you
between the ground and the sky, my love
and I didn't find you.
Listen the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I67cgXr6L6o
Photo: Wall mural in Fremantle, WA. 2023.

**Step-by-step** 1/3. 🎶
First learn to stress the words.
This is one key to learn after to put the tilde accent on the words.

[Translation proposal]
We look like clouds
that the wind takes them away
when there are hurricanes
when there is love sickness.
Listen the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vbeNshimz8
Photo: Cloudy sky in Perth, WA. 2023--.

**Step-by-step**
Pay attention! If you want to learn and to practice the pronunciation in Spanish, first you must know how to separate the syllables and their names. (Please, not confuse with tilde accent).

--Glendalough Station, Perth, WA. 2024.

Also you can say: "Por mis venas no corre sangre, sino café".
(Look the position of the comma).

Illustration by Australian artist Eddie White Jr., who has represent to Colombia through drawing.

Look! The word "vino" is written in his hand.
• The man drinks red wine.
• The man came to drink red wine.
• The man came alone to drink red wine.
• The man only came to drink red wine.

¿Por qué una mariposa amarilla?
Lo sabrás si lees la novela "Cien años de soledad" en el idioma que prefieras.

Why a yellow butterfly?
You will know if you read the novel "Cien años de soledad" in the language you prefer.

Spread the word.

Alfredo Martínez-Expósito (2014). "Vested Interests: the Place of Spanish in Australian Academia". Coolabah, No.13, 74-86.

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"Student demand in Australia" (2014). 10 Reasons to Learn Spanish.

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