Curso de Espanol

Sejak Mei-Juni tahun ini gw memutuskan ikut les bahasa spanyol. So far, berarti gw udah spend sekitar 5 bulanan join curso de espanol. Loe jangan pada tanya kenapa ya gw ikutan kursus ini. Gw sendiri ga tau kenapa ambil kursus ini, asli gw ga tau... Mungkin di kelas, gw satu-satunya estudiante yang ga punya alasan kuat kenapa ambil kursus ini. Oh iya, gw ambil kursus ini di PPB UI kampus salemba.
Kelas pertama gw, nivel uno, temen2 gw lumayan banyak. Ada mba' Wahyuni, Ryna, Lintang, Kiki, senor Tejo (gw panggil senor, karena gw anggap doi paling senior en la clase), Doni, Rosa, and Syafa'at. Semuanya asik y dynamic.
Masuk level dos, barisan berjatuhan... Kiki ada urusan kerjaan, Doni pindah ke Cervantes (Trisakti), Rosa dapet kerjaan so gak ada waktu luang lagi utk ikutan kursus, Syafa'at off the record... But, en nivel dos, gw juga dapet tambahan 4 temen baru. Ada tante Tien, bu Yeni, and Dewi kuadrat (coz dua2nya namanya sama bow...)
Back to nivel uno, gw hepi banget dapet 2 profesora yg cantik2 y OK. Namnya Pilar y Elia. For the result, gw bisa pass the exam dengan nilai yg lumayanlah utk level beginner :)
Enter level dos, gw punya new profesira, namely Claudia... gw belum mau cerita panjang lebar dulu deh, coz belum kelar... anyway, so far so good but not easy. So pastilah... kalau yg namanya level lebih tinggi, lectureny juga lebih susah... nenek2 juga tahu pi'...

Kemaren Cludia absent, and digantikan sementara oleh Pilar.
Very warmful, relax, full smile-as always-she taught all of us that evening.
At the end of the session, she said that on Deciembre she & her husband will go back to Espana & do not come again to Indonesia.
Heh... sedih juga gw dengernya.
Gw sangat terkesan punya guru seperti Pilar. Suatu saat kalau orang tanya siapa guru spanyolmu, gw akan jawab: yang pertama namnya Pilar, in her you can find only smile & goodnes...

Berhubung gw udah rada tune in sama kursus ini, boleh dong gw bagi2 sejarahnya spanyol... sapa tau ada yg berbaek hati ngajak liburan gw kesana :)


Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España,short form: España[1]), is a country located in Southern Europe, with two small exclaves in North Africa, politically organized as a parliamentary monarchy. It is the largest of the three sovereign nations that make up the Iberian Peninsula—the others are Portugal and Andorra.


In the 8th century, nearly all the Iberian peninsula, which had been under Visigothic rule, was quickly conquered (711–718), by mainly Berber Muslims (see Moors), who had crossed over from North Africa, led by Tariq ibn Ziyad. Visigothic Spain was the last of a series of lands conquered in a great westward charge by the Islamically inspired armies of the Umayyad empire. Indeed they continued northwards until they were defeated in central France at the Battle of Tours in 732. Astonishingly the invasion started off as an invitation from a Visigoth faction within Spain for support. But instead the Moorish army, having defeated King Roderic proceeded to conquer the peninsula for itself. The Roman Catholic populace, unimpressed with the constant internal feuding of the Visigothic leaders, often stood apart from the fighting, often welcoming the new rulers, thereby forging the basis of the distinctly Spanish-Muslim culture of Al-Andalus. Only three small counties in the mountains of the north of Spain managed to cling to their independence: Asturias, Navarra and Aragon, which eventually became kingdoms.
To the west and to the south of Galicia, Spain borders Portugal. To the south, it borders Gibraltar and, through its cities in North Africa (Ceuta and Melilla), Morocco. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean and a number of uninhabited islands on the Mediterranean side of the strait of Gibraltar, known as Plazas de soberanía, such as the Chafarine islands, the isle of Alborán, the "rocks" (peñones) of Vélez and Alhucemas, and the tiny Isla Perejil. In the northeast along the Pyrenees, a small exclave town called Llívia in Catalonia is surrounded by French territory.
Muslim Spain was wealthy and sophisticated under Islamic rule. Cordoba was the richest and most sophisticated city in all of western Europe. It was not until the 12th century that western medieval Christiandom began to reach comparable levels of sophistication, and this was due in part to the stimulus coming from Muslim Spain. Mediterranean trade and cultural exchange flourished. Muslims imported a rich intellectual tradition from the Middle East and North Africa, including knowledge of mathematics and science, and they helped revived. Crops and farming techniques introduced by the Arabs, led to a remarkable expansion of agriculture, which had been in decline since Roman times. In towns and cities magnificent mosques, palaces, and other monuments were constructed. Outside the cities, the mixture of large estates and small farms that existed in Roman times remained largely intact because Muslim leaders rarely dispossessed landowners. The Muslim conquerors were relatively few in number and so they tried to maintain good relations with their subjects. This relative social peace, which was already deteriorating from the late 10th century, broke down with the later, stricter, Muslim sects.
Roman, Jewish, and Muslim culture interacted in complex ways. A large part of the population gradually adopted Arabic. Arabic was the official language of government. Even Jews and Christians often spoke Arabic, while Hebrew and Latin were frequently written in Arabic script. These diverse traditions interchanged in ways that gave Spanish culture — religion, literature, music, art and architecture, and writing systems — a rich and distinctive heritage. However, as the 11th century drew to a close most of the north and centre of Spain was back under Christian control.