One-Semester-of-Spanish Love Song
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One-Semester-of-Spanish Love Song

By Mary Ann Zehr — February 28, 2008 1 min read
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I’ve gotten my quota of laughter for the day.

Someone, and I don’t know who, sent me a video from YouTube of a guy strumming a guitar and singing a love song in very rudimentary Spanish. He runs into a few problems, such as counting roses past the 10th rose.

It’s a very funny take on how hard it can be to make a second language work.

Mary Ann Zehr
Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private schools. She was the author of the blog Learning the Language.

A version of this news article first appeared in the Learning the Language blog.