Hola Andrea, Yo llevo unos días y estaba un poco confundido de por qué nadie se inscribió en mis clases. Pero, mi horario es súper limitado a propósito porque estoy tomando clases y trabajando en otros proyectos. ¡Ya me comprenderás! Pero, eché un vistazo a tu página de profesora y tienes mucho horario disponible para los posibles alumnos. Así que, dudo que eso sea un problema. Yo recalcaría la experiencia que sí tienes dando clases o trabajando con estudiantes, en vez de destacar tu falta de experiencia. Di la verdad, pero pon más énfasis en tus destrezas de docente. Y, no tengo prueba todavía, pero creo que posteando en estos foros e involucrándose en discusiones, plantando tus propias preguntas o sugerencias, etc. te va a exponer a tantos profesores como estudiantes. Sigue a mí, yo te sigo a ti. Toma unas clases tu misma. Pues, en fin, así dedicaría unos 30 min. cada día interactuando en los foros y pláticas de la comunidad. Ah, y una cosa más, es que ahora tenemos la opción de prender "lecciones instantáneas." Lo tuve activada hoy por 2 horas y nadie se inscribió. Voy esforzándome un poco cada día y seguro que tendré a mi primer/a estudiante pronto. Si no, ha sido divertido intentar, y te aviso cualquier cosa. Cuídate, Joe

Good question! When I start to hear a word over and over again (recycled 2,3,4,etc. times) my brain sort of perks up. So then I say that word to myself in my head, or whisper it without anyone hearing (or if they hear I don't really care any more), or even better I try and use it right away with someone close by, and I always am paying attention to whether my new word registered with them or if my pronunciation was off, I will say it a couple different ways to encourage them to say it correctly (negotiate meaning with me). That way I'm honing in the pronunciation while using it in context so that each time I hear it again it sort of gets added to my unconscious brain's set of data.

Up in the Rocky Mountains 🏔

Hmmm...I'll give it a shot, since indirect speech is a rephrasing of a direct quote: She asked if Mike was going to win the reality show challenge.

That book by Trevor Noah "Born a Crime" is on my list! I imagine he brings in his amazing humor to deal with his growing up with the effects and laws of apartheid. How did you like it? The last novel I read was the Dharma Bums by the 1950s Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. It's very interesting if you like travel, hiking, philosophy, young people doing wild things in the 1950s :) and Buddhism. The last play I read was Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by the playwright August Wilson, considered the "theater's poet of Black America." This play, wow...it has everything and hits you hard a few times. It shows the inter-relating and philosophizing between band members of blues singer Ma Rainey's and it takes place in 1920's Chicago. There's now a Netflix movie version of it, but I highly recommend reading the text version first (which in my opinion is 100 times better than the onscreen version).

Hi Cristina! Let's do it!

Yes! Beer (or being surrounded by sympathetic and kind, patient people) lowers our affective filter! Whatever gets us to de-stress, and not worry--that is what we want when listening or trying to speak our second, third, etc. language.