Body Language and Space

Nonverbal Communication
Conversation Partnering #5

Isabella and I had a lot of fun with finding out about nonverbal communication. We didn’t realize that we used so much of it until we where trying to write it out. At one point we even when and asked her mom about some of them. She would do the symbols but when I asked her what they meant she would just say there where very bad and to never do them.

The ones I do a lot are the Persian symbols for:

He’s Crazy (hand next to head them shake it)
F*** You (thumps up)
Please (moving open hand down face)

The ones Isabella uses in Spanish are:

F*** You (half fist)
No Way (thump and pinky up rest down)
Cheating (thump and pinky up rest down over someone’s head)
Hand Down (indicating someone’s gay)
You’re Dead or I’m Going To Kill You (thump on throat)
Something Bad (two fingers on either side on nose)

We couldn’t figure out her level of Edward Hall four zones: Inmate, Personal, Social and, Public. I know that she doesn’t like people being to close and that she has a large range of personal space but we weren’t to shear what they where in feet. It’s funny that even after all this time we still will do that back words step dance when I don’t realize I’ve gotten to close.

Sentence Structure

Morphology And Syntax
Conversation Partnering #4

Isabella and I did five sentences that we translated from English to Spanish and then found the syntactic component. When we where doing these sentences we where looking them up online to see if we where spelling them right and when we put them though the translator. We where getting the more formal of the word and then we went thought and did the way people would actually speak it. While we where doing them she was teaching me how to say then in Spanish, and I was having some problem with the pronunciations of the words.

Part 1:

English- I want water.
Spanish- Yo quero agua.
Syntactic Component- Verb Subject

English- I am hungry.
Spanish- Tengo hambre.
Syntactic Component- Subject Verb

English- It’s hot outside.
Spanish- Es ta caliente afuera.
Syntactic Component- Verb Subject

English- I like that color.
Spanish- Me gusto ese color.
Syntactic Component- Subject Verb

English- You are my best friend.
Spanish- Tu eres mi major amigo.
Syntactic Component- Subject Tense Verb

Part 2:

English- I desire water.
More Formal Spanish- Deseo el agua.
Syntactic Component- Verb Subject

English- I am hungry.
More Formal Spanish- Tengo hambre.
Syntactic Component- Subject Verb

English- It’s extremely hot.
More Formal Spanish- Su exterior caliente.
Syntactic Component- Verb Subject

English- I enjoy that color.
More Formal Spanish- Tango gusto de ese color.
Syntactic Component- Subject Verb

English- You are my best friend.
More Formal Spanish- Usted emi major amigo.
Syntactic Component- Subject Tense Verb

Contrastive Consonant Chart

Contrastive Consonant Chart
Conversation Partnering #3

Isabella and I when thought the Phonemic Translation Chart and found out those types of the phonetic alphabet she used. The ones we found where:

p
d
t
g
m
n
v
s
z
3
Upside down r
j
u
d3
o
a
Backwards cI
au