Land of Enchantment discussion

Tijeras means scissors. What new word did you learn?

Sandia I believe means apple? One of the mountain peaks there means watermelon but starting to forget this.

Help please.

Manzanito?

Joanna wrote: "Manzanito?"

Thanks, that is it. I was trying so hard last night to think of it and could not. I think those are the mountains we lived in there.

Alamosa? did I spell it right...means cottonwood

Culebra means snake?

I think so. Snake is also serpienta? Yo hablo muy malo espanol.

Joanna wrote: "I think so. Snake is also serpienta? Yo hablo muy malo espanol."

In college my teacher kicked me out of Spanish for my poor ability to pronounce it. My Japanese friend talked to her about how she treated me and then she felt bad and said she would welcome me back. Fat chance I would have ever gone into her classroom again, so then I tried French...same problem. Actually I tried French first. At least the French teacher asked me to drop from the privacy of her office. I had good success with German. I was so happy as that was my last chance and language was required to graduate. Spanish in NM seemed somehow different and I absorbed it from being there.

I will have to google culebra.

culebra sf
1 (Zool) snake
hacer culebra to zigzag
♦ culebra de anteojos cobra
♦ culebra de cascabel rattlesnake, rattler (EEUU) *
2 (Mec) worm (of a still)
3 * (=alboroto) disturbance, disorder
4 (Andes) (=cuenta) debt, bill
5 (Méx) (=manguera) hosepipe

There was a road named Culebra as it twisted and turned like a snake.

That's impressive! You're right...Spanish in NM is different than what is taught in the classroom. Our foreign language skills must be about the same. I didn't dare try French, but I did do 4 semesters of German. They were glad to see me go.

Joanna wrote: "That's impressive! You're right...Spanish in NM is different than what is taught in the classroom. Our foreign language skills must be about the same. I didn't dare try French, but I did do 4 se..."

I always wanted to speak French as I thought it was so romantic and a cousin says we are French Huguenot but whether we really are remains to be proven. I did find a bunch of them in the ABQ genealogy library and made xeroxes of the pages but another cousin doesn't believe that info. However, I had no gift for language like my father and my son.

For German we had a real German to teach us so that made a difference. The two women who were teaching French and Spanish were Americans but the French teacher had lived over there for awhile. The German professor liked me and thought I was funny. My accent was slightly better than Student Body President so that helped. I was once required to say Lowenbrau about 50 times by Bavarian beau who was disgusted that I sounded like I was from Berlin! ha......
There is also some disagreement about whether we are Dutch or German on the other side. Do you go thru this too wondering where your ancestors were from?
Heinz 57 here

I had a German citizen teach my first class, but had GA's the last 3 classes. It was a mess.

I've had real good luck working my way back through our lineage. Ancestry.com and a British historical society have been the best. We've mostly been British and American basket weavers, preachers, tailors, writers, nurses, military people, etc. Now we're pretty boring.

He had become an American citizen and taught my whole 2 years. He was a great teacher and I was so glad to get along with some Language teacher. There was a two year requirement where I went.

I had the most help from the Mormons when I was in NM. I joined several MyFamily.com thru Ancestry.com and met many distant cousins. We all hit a brick wall tho and cannot get "back across the water". The best place was to go to their genealogy dept at their churches. They have people there who know how to do this stuff. I entered 140 names while working with them.

Sandia actually means watermelon :) Supposedly the mountains are named this because of the color during sunset.

Michelle wrote: "Sandia actually means watermelon :) Supposedly the mountains are named this because of the color during sunset."

YES! Thanks for that reminder as I had forgotten. I used to love the giant painting there in the airport of this idea.

We just came back from leaf peeping out toward Colorado Monument and that area reminded me of NM. We came back over Independence Pass and my poor brain is simply DAZZLED from the incredible unearthly colors. I had to read a SM again as I had to sit up at night a little. Don't miss the fall color.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

Bedazzled: Stephenie Meyer and the Twilight Phenomenon

I miss the New Mexico sunsets!!! The mountains are just a calming presence to me.
Alice I am sure that your brain will recover! :)
Oh and manzanito=little apple
I used to speak pretty decent Spanish when I lived in NM...well, enough to get me by.....however, if you don't use it you lose it and living in northwest Ohio...I have lost a lot of it :(
btw....you taught me something...I didn't know that alamosa means cottonwood! :)

Michelle wrote: "I miss the New Mexico sunsets!!! The mountains are just a calming presence to me.
Alice I am sure that your brain will recover! :)
Oh and manzanito=little apple
I used to speak pretty decent Spani..."

I miss them too. Oh, I am enjoying my brain dazzlement! Its very pleasant.
My hubby is just back from Ohio where he grew up. I didn't go as I cannot endure heat. Wonderfully cool here this morning in the mountains of Colorado.

Alice cullen

OMG the heat! This past summer just about did me in. I don't blame you for not coming up here. It was especially bad this year as far as heat and humidity go. It's very rainy and dreary here today! I am jealous of your weather and mountains!

Michelle wrote: "OMG the heat! This past summer just about did me in. I don't blame you for not coming up here. It was especially bad this year as far as heat and humidity go. It's very rainy and dreary here today!..."

I was jealous for ages but finally managed to move up here....but Got Oxygen?! I have to use it at night. We did make it back to Fort Recovery and got back on the 10th of November but with a bug.

Oh, I did just read Perfect Chemistry which I did NOT like but the Spanish was interesting. The gang stuff was very depressing.