Earlier this summer I started doing a packet trick in Spanish. The trick is Emerson and West’s Gourmet Mouse. What I like about this trick is that it’s very simple and I can do it for kids. The plot is easy to follow, you have three cards. One has a picture of a mouse, one cheese and one a slice of cheesecake. The cheese ends up disappearing and the mouse ends up changing to a picture of a cat (that ate the mouse).
The trick is pretty simple to speak in Spanish and that’s helping me connect with audiences that I’ve struggled with in the past due to language barriers.
Here’s what the trick looks like:
@louiefoxx Help me learn spanish! #spanish #learnspanish #helpme #magictrick #rat #gato #cat #cheese #cardtrick #louiefoxx #learnalanguage ♬ original sound – Louie Foxx
To learn Spanish, I’m using DuoLingo and asking for help from people I work with who speak Spanish. I’m getting better, nowhere near conversational, but getting better.
-Louie
Louis! What an AWESOME idea…in an amazing coincidence, this past weekend I called a 9-yr old girl up and found out she had just moved here from Italy. I then carried out a small conversation with her. She and her parents LOVED it. The rest of the people were impressed (maybe) but YOUR idea is perfect!. It would be great to have a trick that I could do in Spanish. It’s just memorizing a script! THANKS!
Yeah, that’s all it really is, just memorizing a script.
it’s not hard, and it shows you’re trying!