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My ultimate goal is to develop some fluency in Spanish to the point where I can listen to spoken Spanish and understand most of what is being said instantly. It is clear that to fully absorb a language in this way, one needs to speak it and, most importantly, be spoken to in that language.
I am a beginner in regards to conversing in Spanish, though an intermediate in terms of written skills. So I hope to make use of teachers, tutors, and language exchange partners to focus on my conversation and listening skills
I am from the United States. I enjoy music, movies and literature. Of sports, I enjoy watching basketball and football. Learning Spanish is another way of adding something fun, interesting and enlightening to my life. It is my hope that in the future I may live for an extended period of time in a Spanish speaking country.
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Stiven
Spanish
Jun 14, 2018
Fue un gusto conocerte, es fácil percibir el deseo que tienes por volverte un hablante fluido de español y ya tienes las bases, ahora a tomar acción y en lo que pueda ayudarte con todo el gusto lo haré. Éxitos y espero verte de nuevo!
Marcos Ramirez
Spanish
Mar 8, 2017
Zeppo demostró conocer muchas palabras, puedo ver que está decidido a mejorar su español, tiene la motivación y un conocimiento básico que le ayudarán mucho a cumplir su objetivo, muy bien Zeppo!
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Bread
Bread is an important part of the spanish food. OR ... an important part of the Spanish cuisine.Spanish people from Spain >>> Sounds a little awkward, so I think an English speaker would be more apt to say
"People from Spain... " OR (more specifically): " Spanish natives..."
...think there is not a good meal without bread, and I agree. We eat bread for lunch and dinner, but that doesn't mean we eat a sandwich everyday. We eat bread to accompany the food. For example I can cook meat, seafood or soup, and I will have a piece of bread, too.
When I talk about this with my latin american friends, we realize that they eat rice as we eat bread. I have been living for one year in United States, and I am wondering what is the food they use to accompany their meals.>>> the second part of this sentence is fine, and I wouldn't worry about changing the way you say it, but I think in this case one would be more likely to say
"... I am wondering what the food is that they use to accompany their meals." (this may not even be grammatically correct, strictly speaking. I'm not sure. But that's the way the words more often tend to come out).
OR " .. I am wondering what food they use to accompany their meals." (This is definitely grammatically correct)
Again, someone in the USA might say use either of these three ways, so the options above are just informational really.
Also when I arrived in the United States, I realized there are many varieties of bread: white bread, pita bread, pretzel, with garlic, cheese...
Definitely my favorite bread is the french one, because we eat that bread in Spain.
When I go to the/a grocery store in Seattle, it is funny, because I spend a long time smelling the bread. I know exactly how the bread I like smells.0 votedMarch 11, 20170Friday morning
Today, I got up at 6am. I had a glass of banana juice with some wholemeal cookies for breakfast. After that, I left home to go to a meeting at work. The meeting was about a project for a new customer, so we were talking about the details and the deadline for the project has to be finished.0 votedMarch 10, 20170English Correction
Can anyone tell me if this sentence is right?
She told me you could give me a ride to London. Is that okay with you? I only need one for a few weekends.It is unclear what you mean to say. But I am assuming you wish to see if you can ride to London and back with someone each weekend for a few weeks. If so you might say:
I need a ride to London for the next few weekends, and she told me I could ride with you. Is that okay?
0 votedMarch 6, 20170Could anyone tell me if this phrase is correct? Please.
There are fairly generous people who donate money to homeless children's foundations.Appears fine to me, although an alternative I might use is:
There are fairly generous people who donate money to foundations to benefit homeless children.
0 votedMarch 5, 20170Writing
TASK:
In most countries, multinational companies and their products are becoming more and more important.
This trend is seriously damaging our quality of life.
Nowadays in many different countries, multinational companies are becoming ever more important, especially in the poorer countries.
It is also supported by many that this phenomenon could really attack and damage the quality of our lives. >> OR "our quality of life."
First of all, we have to say that over the past 5 years the Western economy has decreased a lot due to the financial crisis.
As a result of/ In response to this crisis, many states imposed more taxes with terrible consequences. In fact, several small and medium-sized factories closed, and as a result, numerous brands disappeared.
However, it has been noted by different economists that the only companies that have not cut their production, (in fact they actually have increased it), are right the big companies.
How is it possible?
Firstly because they have a larger number of customers.
Secondly, and unfortunately, they sometimes don't recognize the worker's rights and pay them less than what is fair. >> OR "less than is fair."
And last but not least, because they corrupt many politicians of the poorer countries, getting them to repress the other new-born companies, and also saving on te raw materials, destroying the quality.
In fact, many times different controls showed that the products of these companies are below the standard of the average requirement. But these powerful companies just pay a fine, because all these episodes are kept hidden.
So we must look at and check the quality of products and give more importance to the quality instead of the price.
Because the most important thing is our health.0 votedMarch 5, 20171Telling a story in Rome
This happened two years ago when I went to Rome with my friend. We were going to holiday. The second day we were visiting the Coliseum when it started to rain a lot.
We ran quickly for someplace where we wouldn't get wet. Then I arrived at a restaurant in front of the Coliseum, but when I turned, I didn’t see my friend. She was getting to lost in Rome.
So I went back outside the restaurant, and I began/started looking for my friend in the street near the Coliseum. I didn’t find to her, and I decided to go back to the restaurant because my clothes were very wet.
When I was arrived at the restaurant, I sat in a chair near of toilets. Suddenly someone touched my arm, and I turned around quickly and saw my friend. She had arrived at the restaurant an hour before and she was calmly drinking a coffee. My friend is incredibly carefree.to holiday. >> this may be phrased correctly for British English (I'm not sure), but in the U.S. we would say "going on vacation."
She was getting to lost in Rome. >>> This needs to be corrected, but the choice depends on what you wish to express. If you want to have the reader visualize your friend in the act of wandering around lost, you might use the participle "getting" or "becoming", but get rid of the "to": She was becoming lost in Rome. You might use this stylistically, for instance, as a transition to the next paragraph that tells more about what is going on with your friend (that you were unaware of at the time.)
But in this case, I think probably what you want to say is "She had become/gotten lost in Rome." Or, simply, "She was lost in Rome."
near of toilets >>> I'm not exactly sure what you mean to say here. But for a U.S. translation, I am going to guess "I sat in a chair near the restrooms." With this wording, I would picture you sitting in a chair close to the doors to the restrooms, but not actually inside the women's restroom.
0 votedMarch 4, 20171
First, the sparrow went to the grass-pot that was growing in the middle of the forest, but its roses were yellow, as yellow as the princess' hair. Then, he went to the grass- pot that was growing in the palace garden, but its roses were pink, as pink as the princess' cheek. Suddenly, a butterfly flew over his head and told him that he could find it in the rose tree that was growing beneath the student's window. So the sparrow flew towards that tree. “Give me a red rose,” he cried, “and I will sing you one of my sweetest songs." The tree shook its head: “My roses are red, as red as the Princess' lips. But the storm has broken my branches, and I won’t have roses this year." The sparrow insisted “Only one rose, only one rose is all I need." The tree exclaimed, “There is only one way you can get it. If you want a rose, you must stain it with your own heart's blood. You must sing to me all the night, letting fall your blood onto my petals."I'm not sure what you mean by grass-pot, so I did not change the translation. This is not a familiar term to me.
letting fall your blood onto my petals." >>> I left this with a poetic wording, but the normal way to phrase this would be "letting your blood fall onto my petals"
0 votedMarch 4, 20171Hello, Can someone help me to correct the first part of this story?
It was a bright cold day in April, and Thomas, as with every day, was reading those books of philosophy that he loved so much. As he turned the pages, he thought of the odious princess he had met in the library. “I have heard the king gives a ball tomorrow night in honor of her birthday. It is ridiculous! Who wants to attend?" exclaimed the young student, lying to himself because his heart already belonged to that girl. What Thomas really hated was the particular wish of the Princess Alaia. She wanted a red rose, yes, the most beautiful rose in all Camelot kingdom. If someone brought her a red rose, she would dance with him 'til dawn.
On the way to school, Thomas wondered where he would find that beautiful rose that would make his dreams come true. "There are no roses in my garden," he cried, and his eyes filled with tears. "Ah, on what little things does happiness depend? I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, and I’m crying for a rose?"
A little sparrow who had heard all his moans explained to the animals and flowers what a perfect thing love was. “There is nothing in the world more valuable than love; there is nothing in this kingdom stronger than the love Thomas feels for the Princess Alaia. He is a perfect lover, and I want to sign onto the search for the flower." All the animals laughed at the sparrow. How very ridiculous! Crying for a rose? It is not love. But only the sparrow understood the student’s sorrow.sign onto the search >>>> "join the search"
[ I offer this as an alternative because I'm not exactly sure what your intended meaning is with "sign onto" ]
0 votedMarch 4, 20171Daily routine
Hello there, Emily!
I hope you are doing well.
This time I am going to tell you about my daily routine.
I wake up at 6am. I set 2 alarms the last night before, because I like to sleep a lot. After I get up I drink a glass of water with lemon for my good digestion. Sometimes I have fruits for breakfast, another times I only have eggs and some bread. I don’t make up myself, so I just get dressed and comb my hair quickly.
After that I turn on my pc to study almost all morning long, because I have piano lessons at 11. After I finish my class at 12, I head to my house to meet with my cousins and have lunch with them in a nearby restaurant. Once I have a little rest and brush my teeth, I study simplified Chinese from the internet for about two hours until 4 pm. This is the hour when I walk to my French lessons, which lasts 2 hours, and then after that I head home again.
The first thing I do when I arrive home is change into my pajamas and have dinner while I watch TV. After that I tend to read or message to my friends or family either.
I go to bed around 10:30, and I can usually fall sleep immediately.
I would like to know about your daily routine.
My best regards, ValeriaFor the sentence that begins with "Once I have a little..." I am really just offering stylistic suggestions, as it was a little unwieldy to me, and I think it flows better if you break it up into two or three sentences. You can say "before", but I find when you break up the sentence, "until" sounds better. Likewise, you can include "the hour", but to my native ears, I prefer the simpler flow of leaving it out.
I am in the U.S., so we use "pajamas" rather than the U.K. "pyjamas."
If you want to include "either", the placement will depend on your meaning, but will not be at the end. If you mean that you "either" read or message, but not typically both, the put "either" right after "tend." You may say "I tend to read, or I message either my friends or family " if you do not typically message both friends and family on the same night.
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