Verbo "ver" Hola amigos de italki, Yo sé que el verbo "ver" no tiene solamente el significado de "to see" del inglés. En este sentido, me interesa entender su significado como en el verbo "to look". Por ejemplo, en las frase: "la casa se ve muy grande." y "te veo mal, tienes un problema?" En la primera frase, 'se ver' quiere decir "the house looks big." y en la segunda "you look bad, do you have a problem?", correcto? Mi cuestión es la siguiente: por que no escribir la segunda frase de esa manera: "te VES mal, tienes un problema?". El sentido es el mismo en ambas las frases pero en una se conjuga el verbo de acuerdo con la cose que tiene una cierta aparencia y en la segunda se conjuga el verbo de acuerdo con la persona que está hablando. Eso significa que yo podría decir: "veo la casa muy grande"? muchas gracias

Pronombre "se" Estoy intentando entender porque se utiliza el pronombre "se" en la letra de la música "bailando" de Enrique Iglesias en los siguientes casos: 1) Yo te miro, SE me corta la respiración Entiendo el significado de la frase, pero si yo fuera escribir, tenía escrito: yo te miro, tú me cortas la respiración 2) Cuanto tú me miras SE me sube el corazón El corazón se sube? O el corazón sube? Tampoco entendí esa frase. Alguien puede aclarar mis dudas? Gracias

What cannot be expressed in words I've had distinct life experiences. I've traveled a lot, met people from all around the world, shared my culture and ultimately learned from their culture and customs, always trying to make the most of it. In my opinion, nothing happens for no reason. It's inevitable that you experience bad things. If you think about it, it isn't the happiest moments in life that make you a better person. At least, not always. One can learn how to enjoy life to its fullest if he knows how to stay clear of unnecessary stress, avoid arguments, specially with people he likes and stay away from malevolent people. Curious is, one can learn, let's say, how to "live" life, at a higher level, or, if I may, entirely happy, if he's able to share his wins and loses, regardless of all his experience and past achievements/defeats, with one person that's willing to do the same to him. Now, that's a tricky concept right there. What I am trying to say is, life should not be taken so seriously and by no means be so complex. It's actually as simple as a dog wagging his tail. People make things harder. That's a choice, not the rule. Having that in mind I dove into this not so recent anymore but it's recent relationship. We talk a lot, we're practically always talking. We seem not to like silence so much. Haha. But that's the way it is because we like sharing things. Simple things. Things that many people may judge worthless or meaningless. We like giving a special attention to this kind of thing. Unfortunately, I moved recently to another city and I miss a lot our daily chat. We still talk on the phone, but it's not the same thing. I can't wait to look her in the eyes again and say how much she means to me. Now, the key for achieving this state of madness (happiness) is called reciprocity. Many judge us crazy or childish for being so silly sometimes. We still cry sometimes when we havet o say goodbye. Even if we know we're going to see each other the next day. I miss her when I'm in the room and she's in the living room. She taught me how to love. And it's only possible when one is ready to share his feelings, completely. When one opens himself so much to the point of confiding his feelings and fears with that person without even thinking of the possibility of being let down by that person. That's easy but in the same time extremely hard to find in life. I found my soulmate. What about you?

Notebook entries

Hello, I'm new to italki.com and hence I have a question.

 

How do I browse my notebook entries? When I go over "Community" and then "Notebook" I can only see that the numbers of notebook entries I've submitted. I can't click on it though, instead I have to go through all of the recent notebook entries and find mine manually. Is that so?

Talk "to" or talk "with" Is there a difference? If so, which?

Things I went through to learn german When I signed up for this german course right next to my college I had no idea where that decision was going to take me. At that moment I wanted to learn a second foreign language. German appeared to be a bad choice for its difficulty and no apparent usefulness, still, I decided to face it and see what happens. It turned out to be my favorite foreign language, exceeding by far my fondness for the English language. In the first year I had difficulties. I was unable to form a sentence by myself. It's indeed very desmotivating for beginners. I didn't give up as many of my classmates quit the course. I continued having the belief that if I could learn german, I could achieve almost anything I wanted to. This idea comforted me and kept me strong. After approximately a year and a half, I found out about this exchange programm between my home universtity and the university of applied science in Munich. I then informed myself of the requirements needed to participate on the programm. I had them all, expect the german fluency. That was when I focused my entire life on learning proper german. I did almost every possible exercise one can do so as to learn a language. I watched series in german, read books, talked to native speakers on the internet, listened to german music every single day, studied grammar for about 2-3 hours a day, had a private teacher coming to my place twice a week to practice conversation, signed up for a widely known german website called deutsche Welle and went through many of its material for learning german and etc. I can today say with confidence that all of it was worth it. A year later I was selected on first place to go to Munich and study there for a semester. I was very blessed for I got to know many german people that were very nice to me and many of which became close friends, with whom I speak occasionaly until this day. I liked Germany so much that I extended my stay there to undertake an internship at a well-known german company. I then achieved my main goal which was to speak German fluently. So, never give up. A life IS NOT too short to learn german after all.