Command form

Command form is a little tricky in Spanish. There are several factors that come into play. The first factor is whether it is a negative command or an affirmative command. If it is a negative command then you put the command in the yo form and drop the o then if its an ar verb you add es and if its an er, or ir verb then you add as. If its an affirmative action then you just put the command in the el/ella form.

No me hables.
Me hablas.
Cantas para mi.

Conversation in Spanish

Yesterday I was really encouraged in my Spanish speaking skills. Yesterday I saw one of my friends from Colombia at lunch and we began to talk about class and other things and I ventured out and just started speaking in to her in Spanish. She smiled and began speaking back to me in Spanish. I got the idea because she said that she was not feeling well the other day and I thought "O we just went over this chapter I am going to try and see what happens". This was the first conversation in Spanish I have had outside of class that lasted longer than a minute.

Que estaba enfermo de ayer?
Fuiste al medico?
Te sientes mejor ahora?

quinceanera

I am puzzled and intersted why a females fifteenth birthday is such a bid deal in Spanish speaking cultures. Some good friends of mine have a daughter who not to long ago had her fifteenth birthday and they had a huge celebration. After the celebration her and her friends took a limo to Lubbock to go see a concert and stayed at a hotel in Lubbock.

En las mujeres la cultura de habla española 15 cumpleanos es enorme.
Tienen una gran celebracion.
Muchos de los huespedes están invitados

"Mente"

I enjoyed learning about adverbs that add the mente to the end of the word. I mainly enjoyed learning about them because it is so much fun to say. When working with these type of adverbs you change the word to its feminine form and then add mente to it. If it does not have a feminine form then you just simply add mente to it.

Rapidamente vamos a la parque.
Me gusta habla en adverbs.
Me gusta habla en espanola.

Imperfect and Preterite

I have been having a really hard time determining when to use the preterite tense and the imperfect tense. One thing that has sort of helped me is thinking about it in terms of infinite and ongoing. What I mean by infinite is if it is a specific event in the past as in its over and done with then it is in the preterite form. However if it is a ongoing or a broad statement such as "on Saturdays I use to go to the super market" then it is imperfect because it is not perfectly completed.

Los sábados yo uso para iba a la super mercado.
Ayer me comí una hamburguesa. 
No me gusta la gramatica.

Greeting

I have a friend who is from Colombia. Her name is Kat and we have gone a several trips together with a bunch of our friends. Our friendship has continued to grow. She has always just greeted me with a hello, however this past week she greeted me with one kiss on the cheek. Because we have become more comfortable in our friendship she felt comfortable with greeting me the way she greet all of her other friends who are accustomed to her traditions. 

Mi amiga me saludo con un beso en la mejilla.
Nuestra amistad es bueno.
Ella espanol es buena.