Ten Words a Week

Visual literacy in any learning process is an important way to adjust thinking to what is tangible. You attain a level that is manageable, and you acquire satisfaction, because you now have a grasp of what is understandable and what is holding you up.

For a week, try to collect ten new Spanish words in your notebook. Select words from magazines, newspapers, and other such places and jot them down. Note what it was about the word that appealed to you. Write down what it is that makes you feel that word engenders positive value to you. If it doesn't appeal to you, note it down. Is it difficult? Is it negative, because it isn't easy to remember, or easy to pronounce? Does it remind you of negative images, because it sounds a certain way, looks a certain way?

You don't need to define the words right away, but when you have enough of a grasp of why you don't like or you like the words, you may want to use them more, interact with them more, and finally get to the point where you begin to converse.

I'll give you an example of something I know about my learning experience with words. I don't usually like words that sound loud and abrasive. In fact, I tend to avoid words with consonant sounds that are guttural and intimidating. I love words that have softer sounds and are welcoming and meaningful. I can usually tell that very mean people use guttural sounds, and nicer people use kinder or gentler words.

So, when I choose a language for self - study, I choose words with an aesthetic feel about them and words or phrases that are jewels to an economy, not words that are used by cons or stealers that wish to steal your gems away.

You can usually tell by the words that people use that show if they are cons, if they lie, and if they are genuine or authentic people are or aren't. I also shy away from louder people that use jarring sounds and growl at people. These days, they just grab, bump, push, bite, pinch, and scratch with hands as well as words.

Interaction requires words. Cons don't need interaction. All they have to do is offer you products or persuade you to buy without legitimate interaction.

Cons rush in and out of places without interaction and rush sales without knowledge of another. Try to learn a language to dialogue, never to market to or take advantage of others. It is a truer learning process.

Authentic living takes words, language, conversing, interacting, and proper methods to meet a person to exchange with in daily life. If a person, for example, doesn't know you, why do they want you to rush your money to them?

Does that make sense?