7/18/2020 @ 4:30pm EST
Conversation Partner: Juan Felipe
Today I met Juan Felipe aka Juanfe. He is 14 years old and recently moved to the USA. He has been here for a couple months and has been learning English since Elementary school in Colombia but if not very fluent in speaking it. We got to know each other and in some instances he would stop not knowing what to say so I would translate it to him in English and have him repeat after me. We started a google doc for the words he didn't know; it acts like his personal dictionary. He told me about an article he had been reading bout healthy foods and I realized his pronunciation with the CHE was as the Spanish CHE and not in the English format, making it difficult to understand what word he was saying. I realized that for Spanish speakers its easiest to explain the pronunciation as the word QUE. We decided we would see each other again tomorrow since he is available in the weekends.
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