Accelerated Spanish Episode 44

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We'll spend about half of this episode rounding out our knowledge of Spanish numbers,

and we'll end with several more adjectives.

You should remember one, dos, tres, and quattro from previous lessons. We're about to learn all

about that legendary night when Joel got scared by animals in his backyard.

But first, I'm going to give you an overall summary of the whole story.

First of all, as we've heard before, it was dark, and Joel got scared, and he damaged

his own things while trying to run away from the animals.

Second, the sun came up, and Joel realized there really wasn't much to be afraid of,

so he went inside and slept.

Third, in his troubled sleep that morning,

Joel had a bad dream that he was on trial for breaking his own things in the

backyard. This storyline is important because it separates our small numbers from our big numbers.

We're going to use a few landmarks to show how this works.

The most important landmark is the sunrise. When the sun came up that morning,

Joel shouted, yes, it's finally daytime. Now, if you were to look at the sun coming up over the

horizon, it might look like a sideways 10, with the horizon creating a straight line and the sun creating a round picture.

So we have 1-0 or 10. The number 10, of course, is a pivotal number, and the word for 10 in Spanish is

10. So it's kind of like it references the day, but it stresses yes,

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