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    A Journey Through Romance Languages

    As a native Spanish speaker, other languages´ speakers would probably expect me to understand written French, Portuguese, or Italian. Well, the truth is that all other Romance Language turn out to be really different and almost impossible for us to understand. I checked out some articles on Wikipedia in their Latin, French, Italian and Portuguese versions, and only the latter was possible for me to understand (really easy, actually), although I had to look up some words on Google. Spoken Portuguese, however, is really difficult for us to understand, especially the Rio de Janeiro accent (or so I´ve been told), which apparently is the thickest of all Brazillian accents. Being a South American, football is almost a disease for me, so I´m always watching sports stuff on TV, where, of course, it is very common to hear Brazilian footballers talk. I understand some words, but only something like 20% of what they say. You get used to football terms after a while, but the rest of it is tricky to catch. I find it very interesting to see how my language relates to and differs from other Romance Languages, but the truth is they´re very different from each other. ¿Qué opinan ustedes, amigos?

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    July 17, 2013
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    Foods That Cause Disease

    Yesterday I saw a program about the common foods associated with disease, like: diabetes, renal disease, and heart disease. These diseases are caused by poor diet. People consume a lot of oil, sugar, salt, and animal fats, but they don't think that it will be harmful down the road. I believe that people don't want to know the truth. Despite that, we have all heard about a family member or friend with diabetes or heart disease; it is very common. The medicines are very expensive and those diseases are chronic.

    Sé que cometí muchos errores, pero está también es una forma de aprender :)

    Thanks for checking my writing!!!!

     

    [Note: Generally, you want to be consistent with your noun forms. If you keep saying "people" do this and "people" do that, it's not good form to switch to "we" do this (generally speaking). If you want to say "we" do this and that, you should do it all the way through. Since you said "people" first, I made them all "people." I hope that helps. :) --Sal ]

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    July 10, 2013
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    This usage of the word "succeeded" is definitely a mistake or a typo. Maybe it's supposed to be "slightly more than needed," or something along those lines. But in the context, the use of "more the succeeded" makes no sense. Just use context clues to figure out what the article meant. -Native speaker.
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    June 23, 2013
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