Accelerated Spanish Episode 4

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The six words that we learned in the amusement park in the previous episode were what I call connecting words. Technically,

these words function as conjunctions and prepositions, but don't worry about those terms for now.

Just remember that there are little words that connect phrases together, and we're keeping all of

them in the amusement park. The words that we're about to learn won't be in the amusement park

because they don't belong there. Think about your own kitchen. You can keep all kinds of dishes

in a kitchen cabinet, but you probably won't find your socks there. Sox belong in a different

place in the house. So let's go to a different part of Joel's world,

where there are new types of words to learn. Whenever Joel leaves the amusement park,

he always has to make a long trip through the open country before he can get back to town.

Joel rarely enjoys this trip because the countryside is full of hairy animals, especially sheep.

The first scene that he encounters isn't too bad because the sheep are behind fences,

some on the left and some on the right. Here, all he needs to do is walk along the path

between the sheep pastures and he should be safe. Today, as Joel braces himself to pass between the sheep pastures, and he should be safe.

Today, as Joel braces himself to pass by the sheep, the shepherd says,

Hi, who are you?

Joel is distracted, and his knee-jerk response is to say,

Yo!

As if to say, hey, what's up? He's trying to seem cool and unfazed by the presence of large woolly mammals. The shepherd finds it interesting that Joel's name is yo. Of course,

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