Essay On Spanish Club

Spanish is one of the most popular languages in the world, and that is why I joined the Spanish club when I was in high school. Baseball manager, Dusty Baker, says “Study Spanish now and you will see how beneficial it was going to be later in your life”. I completely agree with him because joining the Spanish club in high school helped me become a perfect person for society. The Spanish club revealed a lot about me as an individual, and how my behavior changed over time. In order to be accepted into a Spanish club, I must fully learn its rule, its unique language, and the way members interact or communicate with one another. In this paper, I will prove that I learned Spanish by using logos, pathos and ethos appeals to master crucial knowledge of Spanish, to comprehend the lingo of other members of a community, and to establish credibility. To me obtaining logos, pathos, and ethos appeals are crucial because they will be the

foundations that help me participate in any other communities such as a workplace or a charity organization. This paper also serves as an effective tool for my instructor and classmates to know more about me.
In my Spanish club, members share their common knowledge of Spanish language as well as learning to communicate in Spanish. I knew that I could be fully accepted into the Spanish club by demonstrating my ability as a native speaker, but to adapt to their shortcut terms when communicating with other members. That is why I used logos appeal of how well I write to persuade my manager and other members that I should be accepted.
Knowledge is the only requirement for my Spanish club. The members and I usually discuss the significance of the verbs “ser” and “estar”, which means “to be” in Spanish. “Ser” is typically used for relatively permanent situations and “estar” is used for non-permanent situations. As a member of this club, I know that I want to master these skills as soon as possible because it will be harder as I go on. I also want to learn how to conjugate it into different scenarios since this rule applies differently with each kind of pronouns. Plus, I know that these are irregular verbs so they won’t follow the regular pattern for verb conjugations. I will have to memorize them. I practice my skills by writing complex sentences and put it in an essay in logical order, but I also listened to the conversations with my manager since he speaks Spanish fluently. In Spanish, there is a lot of words end with R sound. Just like a Spanish speaker, I have to pronounce the sound R exactly; if I cannot hear it at the end of a word, I know that I am not saying it correctly. I developed these skills through practice every day after school, as my accent becomes more fluent like every member in the community.
In addition, in English, a word with the same consonants and vowels can have a bunch of various meanings depending on if the tone is high, low, stress or unstressed and the way the speaker expresses. In contrast, Spanish has a different accent because the intonations are very similar. The speaker speaks in an average rhythm, just like reading a poem in English without stressing any vowel. Even if the speaker has a deep voice and stresses a word too much, I am still able to comprehend the overall meaning. In four years of participating in the club I know that obtaining Spanish vocabulary is crucial, and so is communicating.
Communicating was the main key to be successful in my Spanish club.

It was also a specific way to express my emotions and thoughts. The unique slang that we used are what connects members efficiently even though we are miles apart. I remember one time I had a writing contest that covered how my mother was like when I was young. I sat next to a senior member who played the captain role in the club while I was writing. At times, when I wrote about what my mom was like, she told me why I would not use DOCTOR to make my essay smoother. I felt so vague and asked her what that is. She told me DOCTOR stands for description, occupation, characteristic, time, origin, and relationship of the verb “Ser” in Spanish. I recalled one time my manager taught other members in the group to use DOCTOR, LOCO, and BOOT to conjugate verbs in their essay to make it more perfect. These are the verbs that basic Spanish writings must have. However, I realized that I was not a part of this club because I have been in the club for almost a year but I get nothing out of

it.
Growing increasingly frustrated, I pushed myself through a lot of practice by spending time with the club every day to get used to their lingos. I knew that being a member is hard, but the harder part is getting accepted by other members willingly. As time goes by, I improved my skills until I didn’t take too much pressure for me to communicate with any members, even with the upperclassman. I feel like changing the way I communicate is merely for adapting to this community. Changing the way I communicate doesn’t mean that I am a completely different person; it only means I sharpen myself through different methods. By practicing through different processes, I know that my manager, Ms. Gonzales, trusted my ability to be a part in the top members who will be writing articles for school’s weekly newspapers.
Trust has to be earned through hard work and effort. Many old members in my club assume that a member can write weekly newspapers if that person is a professional writer. I would agree because being a good member is not enough, but I have to show other members that I can handle an article. For instance, a male member has a really good reading skill, but it will be different when he comes to writing. Learning how to read Spanish is fairly easy because it pronounces exactly the way it is written, but when asked to combine it in a complete sentence, he might write it wrong or conjugate it incorrectly. He writes it wrong because he had not really developed his skill in writing area. He knew that the word “habla” was supposed to be conjugated with different pronouns, but he did not know that the rule is only applied when something happened in the past or for a period of time with no clear beginning and ending. In addition to being able to write perfectly, it’s important to have all verb conjugation memorized. In my senior year I was able build enough credibility that the manager and my pals trusted my knowledge.
On Day of the Dead, Ms. Gonzales trusted my ability to write a page-length article reminding students the meaning behind that day. She knew that I was capable of writing it well because of how well I wrote my Spanish essay, and my skill to reverse the complex sentences. To me this was a huge accomplishment. At the same time, I know some people might assume that learning Spanish is useless and not worth to try, but I think Spanish is what makes my resume more outstanding when I apply for jobs in the future.
Through participating in Spanish club I have realized that Spanish club is not only about learning different language but also sharpen who I am. My years of being a member in a Spanish discourse community made me more mature compared to someone else at my age because of the treasure knowledge I earned from four years. To me being accepted as a full-fledged member of Spanish club is honored because the club accepted my contribution that I worked hard to be flawless and learned how to appeal rhetorically.