We are now done the passion project for school, I have presented my Spanish project and what I learned for my class and I think it went pretty well. My goal in the beginning was to learn enough Spanish so that I could roughly have a conversation. I have practiced a lot but I don't think I can really have a conversation yet, but I can put a few Spanish words into my English conversations. I can also say the alphabet and count to twenty. I learned that to learn a second language you have to make a lot of time to practice, which I didn't always do, but I still practiced quite a bit.
There is a lot of ways of connecting your faith to learning a second language because by learning a second language you can connect better with other people and build community and it gives you more opportunity to share your faith.
Learning Spanish is connected to creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. God created language for peace so that people could communicate together. Fall is when people used language to work together, building the Tower of Babel and doing other acts of rebellion. God put a stop to this by creating language barriers to separate people. Redemption is that it is God's ultimate plan to restore peace. Overcoming language barriers is a way to restore peace.
I hope to learn more Spanish before I go to Mexico in march and I will try to blog about using the Spanish I have learned in Mexico.
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