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Spanish 2A
Mar 14th, 2012 by Celia Stauty
This week in Turkish class
Mar 13th, 2012 by Jo Dee Walters
This week in Turkish class we learned a lot of verbs for daily activities, and we learned how to use those verbs in the first person simple present. Useful stuff, right? If you want to see what we’ve been working on, you can visit the Turkish blog at https://sites.google.com/site/buildturkish/home.
Next week is Spring Break, and we will also take the week after Spring Break off, so the next Turkish class will be on April 3rd.
Iyi Ilkbahar Tatili, herkese!
Spanish Thursday March 1st (1-2pm)
Mar 8th, 2012 by Sendy Ramos
Hola, Buenos días 
Today we discussed family members:
Spanish Thursday February 23rd (1-2pm)
Mar 8th, 2012 by Sendy Ramos
Hola
Today we went over the names of clothes and another small conversation please take a look, click on them to make them bigger
Thai Lesson 4
Mar 7th, 2012 by Rawiwan Buppanhasamai
Sawaddee kha everyone,
Our lesson 4 this week is the continued lesson from last time. We talked about how to say something in simple sentences. This week we talked about the verb /len/ ‘to play’ and /bpai/ ‘to go’. We also played a word game, so that everyone could get more practice.
We will upload more vocabulary on our website . Feel free to check it out at
http://sites.google.com/site/learnthaiwithbuild/welcome
See you next week! แล้วเจอกันค่ะ /laew jer gun kha/
Thai lesson 3
Mar 5th, 2012 by Rawiwan Buppanhasamai
Hi all, in our last lesson we had 2 new students. It’s nice to have all 4 motivated students. We talked about how to form simple sentences in Thai, starting with the verb /gin/ ‘to eat’ such as
/chan chaawp gin khao phad/ = I like to eat fried rice.
The students showed their interest in food terms, so we talked more about different kinds of food and ingredients.
We then talked about adding ‘not’ into the sentence
/chan mai chaawp gin khao phad/ = I don’t like to eat friend rice.
I will post a separate handout of the whole list of food terms with an appropriate tone mark.
Foreign Language Networking Mixer
Mar 2nd, 2012 by Arash Asady
Wed, March 28, 7pm – 9pm
1833 Bar and Restaurant
The N.O.W. @ MIIS Networking Club* & B.U.I.L.D.* invite the entire
MIIS community, alumni and professionals within the greater Monterey
area to join us for a foreign language networking mixer in downtown
Monterey at 1833 Bar and Restaurant. Complimentary snacks will be
provided and beverages available for purchase.
*Network. Outreach. Work @ MIIS Networking Club
*Build yoUrself In Language Development
Open to Monterey Community
Salut! 2ème classe!
Feb 25th, 2012 by shoch
Salut tout le monde! Merci pour venir hier! Thank you for coming yesterday!
1. We started off with yummy cookies, technical difficulties, and pronouncing the alphabet based on the following video clip:
2. Then we practiced pronouncing numbers 0-20, following it up with this number “rap” video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIUr8omTpCs&feature=endscreen
3. Lastly, we began practicing spelling our names, addresses, and giving telephone numbers to a receptionist:
***********
Personne A : D’accord (Madame/Monsieur), comment est-ce que vous épelez votre nom ?
Personne B : _______________________________
Personne A : Merci. Et votre adresse ?
Personne B : C’est…….
Personne A : Merci. Et votre numéro de téléphone ?
Personne B : Ok, c’est …………
**********
Next week we’ll work on introductions/greetings, expressing food interests/ordering, and then spend some time on some reading/pronunciation practice with either songs or basic poetry.
A la prochaine! See you next time!
Arabic 2/ intermediate/ class 2
Feb 25th, 2012 by aalhammody
السلام عليكم
كيف الحال؟ مراجعة للدرس الثاني
this is a short review of what we covered in our 2nd class on Friday:
Numbers الارقام
1 واحد
2 اثنان
3 ثلاثة
4 اربعة
5 خمسة
ستة6
7 سبعة
8 ثمانية
9 تسعة
10 عشرة
the Present tense الفعل المضارع
أ ن ي ت
أ / انا = (انا) اقرأ رواية
ن/ نحن = (نحن) نتكلم العربية
ت/ هي – انتَ = هي تذهب الى البيت/ انت تذهب الى السوق
ي/ هو = (هو) يكتب على اللوحة
بعض المفردات ومعانيها
يطير= fly
يسافر=travel
يتكلم = speak
يتعلم= learn
يستيقظ= get up/ wake up
شكرا . اراكم في الاسبوع القادم
the next week Inshallah we will continue with and practice the present tense and see if we will have time for alittle bit of future.
مع السلامة
German Build!
Feb 24th, 2012 by Jennie McCulloch
Grüß Euch!
Gina Hamman und ich (Jennie McCulloch) sind die Lehrerinnen für deutsches BUILD dieses Semester. Willkommen!
Gina Hamman and I (Jennie McCulloch) are the German BUILD this semester. We meet in Morse 200 Fridays at 11:00am. All are welcome!
We will post information on what we have done in class as well as useful links. For starters, check out:
dict.leo.org (an online dictionary)
During week one we covered basic introductions including age, languages spoken and previous travel experience. In our small group we had people who had lived in various countries.
Die Studenten haben in den folgenden Länder gewohnt:
Volksrepublik China 
Brussel, Belgien
Berlin, Deutschland 
Frankreich
Die Studenten sprechen Chinesisch, Russisch, Italienisch, Franzoesisch, und Deutsch!
In Week Two we continued with introductions, and talked about the age, the place of birth, the profession and current location of various well-known German personages!
Here is a list of some phrases and vocabulary we used in class:
-Wie heisst du/ Wie heissen Sie?
Ich bin Jennie/ Ich heisse Jennie.
- Woher kommst du/ woraus kommst du/ wo kommst du her? (Woher kommen Sie…)
Ich komme aus Seattle. (Er/ sie kommst aus…)
-Wo wohnst du?
Ich wohne jetzt in Monterey. (Er/ sie wohnt in…)
-Wo hast du (früher) gewohnt?
Ich habe in Portland gewohnt.
Welche Sprache sprichst du?
Ich spreche Deutsch.
-Wie alt bist du/ Wie alt sind Sie?
Ich bin neunundzwanzig Jahre alt. (Sie/ er ist …)
Nummern:
1 eins 2 zwei 3drei 4 vier 5 fuenf 6 sechs
7 sieben 8 acht 9 neun 10 zehn 11 elf 12 zwölf
13 dreizehn 14 fierzehn 15 fuenfzehn… 17 siebzehn
20 zwanzig 21 einundzwanzig
30 dreißig 32 zweiunddreißig
40 vierzig 43 dreiundvierzig
50 fuenfzig 54 vierundfuenfzig
60 sechzig 65 fuenfundsechzig
70 siebzig 76 sechsundsiebzig
80 achtzig 87 siebenundachtzig
90 neunzig 98 achtundneunzig
100 (ein)hundert 101 einhunderteins
200 zweihundert 205 zweihunderfunf
1000 (ein) tausend 1,000,000 eine million
* I apologize for the lack of appropriate umlaut on fuenf
-Hast du Geschwister/ Haben Sie Geschwister?
Ich habe einen Bruder.
Ich habe eine Schwester.
-Wie alt ist er/ Wie alt ist sie?
Er ist…. Sie ist…
Die Eltern
Meine Mutter, mein Vater
Here are some links to videos of introductions, learning materials, and some music:
http://youtu.be/JoMqyJCc1yU (from the series Alles Gute)
http://youtu.be/9nPLZUMZ4OQ (a song about not knowing a girl’s name)
http://youtu.be/i2GaHyDSfmg (another song: Sag, wie heisst du)
Also, check out the movie Pina, playing now at Osio <<http://osiocinemas.com/>>.
Wim Wenders directed this film about the late German dancer/ choreographer Pina Bausch.
http://www.pina-film.de/de/ (you can also click on English in the upper-right corner).
There isn’t a lot of German in the movie, but listen for the Jahreszeiten, the seasons, in the beginning, and enjoy the amazing dancing and cinematography!
Bis nächstes Mal!
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