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Hola! Me llamo Ty y estoy estudiando Español hace dos meses. Tengo 24 años. Soy un estudiante de la Universidad de Warwick en el Reino Unido que hace un PhD en sociología. También trabajo en la Universidad (Mi PhD solo es tiempo parcial). Me gusta cocinar, viajar y el baile de salón. Busco que me ayuden con mi español y amigos con los cuales compartir nuestros intereses.
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    Immigration

    From Since the nineties Italy has been experiencing a strong growth of immigrants from different areas of the world. After the fall of the Berlin wall, dramatic and radical political changes took places in almost all the eastern European eastern countries. Albania was one of them: when the communist government was overturned overthrown, many people tried to escape as refuges into the near countries such as Italy and Greece. It was probably the first time in my life that I heard the news talking about the “invasion” of immigrants. This phenomenon, often exaggerated by media with adjectives likes “exceptional, huge, unsustainable, etc”. It has repeated several times in the following years. Italy had to deal with more and more frequent and intense of waves of immigration. Some political parties have tried to exploit this situation to gather more votes during elections and to justify the high level of unemployment that has always characterized my country. Regarding this last point, I believe that the opposite is true. Immigrants do jobs that most Italian people don’t want to do because they are not well paid or because they are considered humiliating or too hard (harvesting tomatoes is just an example). Immigrants pay taxes and, in this way, they avoid the collapse of our welfare system due to a reduced number of working people.

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    May 17, 2014
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    What are the disadvantages of getting a university degree online?

    Nowadays there are a lot of opportunities to get a degree online even without visiting a university. I believe that despite of obvious advantages online learning has several important disadvantages.
    First of all, one of the most important parts of an education is a personal communication with a teacher. If you do not understand something, you always can ask teacher and discuss with him the topic which appeared to be hard for you. Studying through internet you loose this opportunity because there are usually much many more students in the online classes and the teacher is not able to spend enough time for everybody. Therefore, if you do not get something, you should have to try to solve problems by yourself, and it is not guaranteed that you will find correct solution. Thus, I believe that lack of communications between teacher and students is the obvious disadvantage of online learning.
    Next, when you get your degree online you do not communicate with your classmates in real life. Meanwhile, Students life is not less an important part of studying in the university than lectures themselves. Years spent in the university help students to become more socially active. During this period of life people are getting many social and personal skills that can be helpful in their future career. Online education which concentrates only on studying process, deprives the students of this experience in comparison with education in the university. Thus, I claim, that this is one more disadvantage of online learning. 

    As I have shown, there are several disadvantages, connected with getting a university degree online. However, nobody can forbid you to study online, but I would recommend doing that in parallel with getting your degree in a university.

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    July 19, 2013
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    You Can't do all everythings at once

    One of too many misconceptions that we think is true but by passing time we find out that they are not as what we thought someday is
    "We think we could gain all of our goals in this restricted time with less effort and just
    by thinking about them"
    but in the real world that's not true.
    There are super-menmans of Hollywood that do these things not real peoples.
    For every single step of being professional you should plan, focus, sometimes don't sleep well ,a bit of stress and too much other things that we couldn't imagine at all.
    That's the price of our goals that we first think they are near to us but they're not.
    Then we judge bad about ourselves and asking what is wrong with me.
    It is important to see and think realistically.

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    July 19, 2013
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    The death of my favorite singer

    It's awfull. The main punk of the country hasve died. Michael Gorshenev iwas the singer and frontman of the russian punk band King and Jester have died at night from 18 to 19 july in the his own house in the Saint Petersburg. [usually in english we'd say "the night of 18th July"]

    I can not believe it, he was amazing man, who invested his soul to his music.
    And his death is an end of some part of me I think.
    This band was my first rock band, and I liked Michael as singer and person.

    Oh, It's so terrible. I don't have no enough words to say my feeling about this
    He always will be alive in my heart and I always will listen to his music.

     

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    July 19, 2013
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    Gateway por Frederick Pohl Acabo de leer Gateway por Frederick Pohl. Es un novela ciencia ficción que ha recibido ambos los premios Hugo y Nebula. La historía sigue un 'buscador' quién viaje a Gateway - un asteroide que extraterrestres (se llaman 'Heechees') usaban como un puerto de espacio. Los Heeches salían hace cientos de milliones años y abandonó muchos naves de espacio. Humanos han experimentado con estas naves y pueden los hagan ir, pero no pueden los controlar. Por consiguente, ser un prospector es muy peligroso pero si tiene suerte puede enriquecerse muy rápidamente. Se escritó en la persona primera. Había esperado desagradar esta forma de texto pero no lo encontré tan distrayendo. La acción principal ocurre en el pasado, pero hay un relato enmarcado que ocurre en el presente. No lo me gustó, lo encontré aburrido y siempre quisé estar leyendo el acción principal. No obstante, el relato enmarcado introduce aspectos psicologicas a la novela. El protagonista está asistiendo a un psicólogo computadora y habla sobre sus sentimientos sobre las tribulaciónes que sufrió como un buscador. Disfruté Gateway mucho y lo recomiendo a alguien quién le gusta ciencia ficción.
    July 19, 2013
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    Por, Para or something else, talking about timezones When talking about timezones in english we would say something like "Midday for me (7am for you)". How does one say this in spanish? Mediodia por mi? Mediodia para mi? Or is there some other convention in spanish?
    July 16, 2013
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    Un mensaje para maestros Hola. Me llamo Ty y soy de Inglaterra. Estoy aprendiendo español porque me gusta viajar y pienso que debe tentar de hablar en la idioma local cuando visitando una pais. Escogé español porque la mayoria de sudameríca lo habla, y quiero una maestra de colombia porque se dice que los colombianos hablan las mas claros. He enseñado a mí propio por el año pasado pero ahora creo que necesite un maestro o una maestra para hablar conmigo y corregirme cuando me equivoca. Creo que tenga un vocabulario bastante por ahora pero no puedo hablar con confianza asi eso es que quisiera practicar. Prefiero lecciones informal para practicar. Espero que usted pueda ayudarme (y por favor, disculpe todos las faltas en eso mensaje!)
    June 24, 2013
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    Mas vacaciones! (el foto ® mi novio) La semana pasada yo y mi novio visitamos Barcalona por nuestros vacaciones. Alojamos en un apartamiento en el Raval, un barrio viejo y cerca de La Rambla - el centro touristico de la ciudad. Estabamos allí por 5 dias - llegamos el viernes y nos marchamos el míercoles. Al principio habíamos tenido la intención alojar solo por tres noches y marcharnos el lunes pero fue mas barato permanecer las dos dias extras porque los vuelos por la lunes fueron muy caras. Gastamos mucho dinero en comidas durante nuestra estancía. Normalamente cuando alojo en un apartamiento cocino por lo menos una vez por dia, pero las comidas de Barcelona eran tan bueno que mas del tiempo querimos salir a comer. Sabía que muchos de los restaurantes no estaría bueno por que solo ses sirven los viajeros así pregunté el proprietario de nuestro acomodación por sus recomendaciones y me alegro que hice. Él nos diga que su cervezería favorita en la Barceloneta (un barrio donde pescadores viven), le llama el vaso de oro. Haga su propia cerveza y cocina tapas para lo acompanar. Él nos advertó que es un restaurante muy ocupado y debemos llegar temprano para encontrar un mesa. Hicimos así nos sirvieron pronto con patas bravas y foie gras. Voy a revolver la proxima vez que voy a Barcelona. Cuando en Cataluña, visitamos muchos obras por Gaudí. Él era un architecto de la tradición art nouvaux quien incorporado las estructuras de natura en sus edificios. Esto se puedo visto en sus casas Mila y Batlló en la calle "passeig de Gracia". Se dice que el primer aparece los heusos y la último fue inspirado por un drago - el techo se diseño aparecer la piel, y las ventanas del primer suelo como la boca. Fuimos a Parc Güell tambien. Este es un parque encima de una colina tan grande que hay escaleras mecánicas en el lado de la colina. Miramos la puesta del sol de el parque y mi novio hizo muchas fotografías muy bonitas. Antes de viajar a Barcelona, me dice que hay muchos ladrones en el ciudad. Una noche un tal persona intentó robarme pero me di cuento de que hacía y él fracasó. Recomendo que alguien quien visita acá debe cuidarse de sus cosas. Tenía demasiado miedo a hablar mucho en español en Barcelona porque había oído que a los catalanes no les gusta la gente hablar en castilla así aprende un poco de catala durante mis vacaciones. No obstante, encontré difacil saber cuando una persona me hablaba en castella o catala por que hay muchos similaridades, en particular 'hola'!
    June 13, 2013
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    March 17, 2013
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    My second attempt (effort o try? [attempt is the best :)]) at translation of a Spanish text

    http://www.italki.com/entry/323456
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    Why should someone learn to play a musical instrument?

    This week I noticed a very interesting story in the news. OneA boy of five years old [better to say: a five year old boy] was about to play piano very soon[this is redundant as its saying the same thing as "about to"] in Carnegie Hall in New York. This topic made me think about the benefits of playing a musical instrument.

    Many studies has proved that children who play a musical instrument do better in school, have a higher IQ and playing an instrument makes the abilities of some parts of their brain increase more rapidly.
    The adults can get benefit of from it as well because learning how to play an instrument helps them to keep their brain active and alert and prevents Alzheimer's and other age-related memory loss.
    It also teaches us how to be disciplined and to reduce the stresses caused by our daily activities. All andin all, although playing an instrument seems to be simple but it can gift us one of the sweetest pleasures of life. [you don't use but with although- generally the structure "<positive clause> but <negative clause>" or "although <negative clause>, <positive clause>"]


    Learning music will bring you a sense of accomplishment especially when you can play a song which you like most without mistake or with tiny mistakes. However, the most important advantage is that it is fun.

    With regard to what I mentioned, You can see that playing a musical instrument will satisfy our feelings in many different ways.

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    March 17, 2013
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