I can help you with your Spanish this weekend

Answering a little about Medellin ecosystem for developers Someone asked two questions in my yesterday's entry, so I have taken advantage of that and I converted in a new notebook entry available for corrections too. Questions: "Are you a software developer? I am too and really wanting to move to a Spanish speaking country. What is life like for developers there?" My answers: "I'm not exactly a software developer, but I do several software tasks because I'm an electronics engineer (in USA it's only electrical engineering, those two majors are a little bit different here). About your second question I think that Colombia would be a very good option for developers, particularly Medellin city, there are several aspects which support this idea, I'll mention some of them in the following lines: The local companies are being supported by investors from different parts of the world. Several multinational companies have opened headquarters here. The city has its own public center for promoting business and innovation, its name is Ruta N. The World Economic Forum opened the first Latin American center for the fourth Industrial Revolution. The city will become in a talent hub of artificial intelligence, so it's arising the technology companies which need qualified talent with skills in front end, backend, full stack, machine learning, data science, and so on... If you like to talk about that kind of topics, we can exchange knowledge about it in English and Spanish for practicing and preparing us for our next career opportunities."

My AI Challenge I want to advance my career in Artificial Intelligence (AI), but I need to improve o reinforce some basic aspects in my life. AI has been rounding my mind some years ago, but the moment to take this seriously is now. I have several motivations for achieving the goal of being part of the ecosystem of AI that is arising in my city, Medellin is becoming in a hub talent of AI and I’ll be part of that. What do I need? To improve my English skills. To leave my old bad habits while I replace it with the enrichment of others. To believe in myself. To stay hungry and keep learning. I don’t need to overcharge myself, step by step the things flow to build the basis of a brilliant future for those like me that take advantage of the opportunities and follow their dreams with concrete actions. Thanks for reading your time and comments are pure gold!

Daily entry (1/21) It's Saturday and I don't work on weekends, so I woke up later than the other days. This is my last semester of the college and I'm working as an intern in company of technology. It's my first professional job after more of four years studying electronics engineering. I have been working for almost two months and the adaptation process has been good. When I was taking classes in the college, I had to read in English frequently, but it's more now, because a lot of the documentation related with the topics that I'm researching is written in English. Fortunately, it has been familiar to me, because I understand the main ideas and use a dictionary from time to time. But that can't be enough for me, because if I want success learning English, I should try not only understanding when I am reading, otherwise writing and speaking are important too. So, I'm trying to write a little more, because I want to help others understanding some things like I learn from others when I read something of them. Thanks for reading!

Spanish / English exchange partner

A short tale My sister wrote a tale in Spanish and she request me that I would translate it. This is my attempt. The giant and the rabbit -Hello, who are you neighbor? - I’m the rabbit and I come looking forward you give me a place to stay this night. The giant accepted, but only because he wanted to eat it, and he imagined it on a dish stuffed of vegetables. The rabbit went ahead and asked to the giant: where would sleep its? then the giant answered: You’ll sleep un the room near the kitchen. When the night was over the rabbit was woke up by the giant for the breakfast time, both had breakfast. The hour for lunch arrived, so the rabbit asked to the giant: what is the dinner?, then the giant answered: smoked rabbit. -No, thank you I don’t like the rabbit. -But I not going to give you. - Why? - Because, you’re the dinner! When the rabbit listened to that he started to run, and the giant went to pursue it. Rabbit was hidden in a shrub, but his little tail expose itself. The giant grab it its little tail, but the rabbit bite him, then the giant released and the rabbit ran and ran quickly, but the giant reach it again. The rabbit tricked the giant when it was pretending that it fell over a crag, naively the giant jumped too, thinking that the rabbit did the same. The sad disappointed rabbit went where its father, but disappointed because it didn’t carry with it the pig, fortunately it didn’t matter to its father, the most important thing for the father was that his son was fine, then both hug them and they lived happily ever after. In constrast the giant died. Ignore the final pig! this only the second part of the tale, it makes sense with the first part. Thanks for reading!

Confident and confidence Help me to understand why 'confident' works better in this sentence. I don't feel ___________ in myself when I try to express my opinions in English. I had writen with 'confidence' the first time, but someone else corrected it. Thanks!

I just want to write here I just want to write here, because I have been trying to learn English several years ago, I have been feeling that I haven't practice enough my writing. I can understand the main ideas of the articles that I read and I recognize meaning of many words that I listen to, but the process of learning never finishes, particularly, because I don't feel confidence in myself when I try to express my opinions in English and I make several mistakes when I write. My goal is to continue improving my skills and I know that I can reach it, however I need to accept the corrections and to learn about them. Thanks for reading!

I will tell you a little about my home town (1). I'm from a small town located in Colombia (South America) near Medellin city. I had been living there for seventeen years until I entered the college. It's well known in this region like "la tierra del tigre", maybe that expression doesn't make sense for you even if I try to translate as "tiger's land" but I'll write later about the story behind that nickname. Bikes are the main transport, this is possible because the terrain is flat, and the urban zone isn't so large, one can go biking from end to beginning easily. Statistical studies say that: there are at least of two bikes per habitant. The blueprint of its streets is very beautiful, because it's like a chess board with those square shapes as you can look in the picture. Thanks for reading! More pictures are availible at: https://www.facebook.com/apasionadosporamalfi/