Language lessons on board/Carlos Pueblo

Language lessons on board/Carlos Pueblo

Another interesting schedule on days at sea is the language lessons

including Tagalog, Spanish, French, Serbian, Chinese, and Afrikan. The

instructors are staff of the cruise activity department effectively

providing the initial interest for many passengers. I have had some

experience of such lessons from my previous cruises; therefore, I am

able to respond Tagalog lesson while Spanish and French are my life

time ambition to learn. Chinese, Spanish, and French are three of the

major languages of hundreds of million while if connected to Slavic

Russian, Serbian can be huge as well. Otherwise, Serbian and Afrikan

are limit to the Balkan Peninsula and South African of less than 9 million

each. For that lessons, I went to review some classical English movies

of the Boer Wars and the Zulu Wars, etc. Afrikan is a 1600, a.d. Dutch, a

part of Western German language.

The class starts at 12:45 pm for 30 minutes and 1:15 pm for the second

class of another 30 minutes, some of them with hand out sheet. I gather

them with my language folders. I find that it is very interesting that some

of the cruise staff like or can speak Japanese. They all become my adopted

daughters. They either with prior working experience in Japan or intended

to work in that country later. The ship is huge like a typical U.S. size of

township with multi nationals speaking different languages. I am still working

on my Japanese and Spanish and the cruise is the ideal to take my learning

into practice.

Due to the difficulty of pronouncing my name in Kanji spelling, I first added

Charles as my middle name at the beginning while officially on naturalization

procedure yet the last name was pretty difficult as well. I explain it to a lady

clerk in Barcelona, Spain that Chuang is the village in English and she responds

it as pueblo in Spanish. Since then, I have used Carlos Pueblo as my unofficial

name and pretended to be a Filipino from Sibu, Philippines. Sibuya is another

major language in that country which I identify as my home town and I don’t

speak.

I always suspect that languages can lead the trace of human immigration. I

suspect that the Pacific Islanders have had the same origin of their ancestors

and yet I don’t think that I can prove it. It is too late for me and is not important

after all. I am just enjoying the language which I learn every day as much as I can.