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- "Puns", o "retruécanos" En mi lección de Español mas reciente, mi maestra y yo hablamos sobre el concepto de "Puns". En inglés, "Puns" son un forma de juego de palabras, bromas cual son fundaban en un palabra con dos significados, o dos palabras cual suene similar. Aparentamente, el traducción correcto es 'retruécano', pero esta palabra fue nuevo para ambos mi y mi maestra. Estuve no seguro si el concepto exactamente el mismo existe en español (ahora sé que lo existe en español, y frances, y probablemente mucho más idiomas), entonces tras el lección quise para explicar el concepto mas claramente, porque es (en mi opinion) un parte muy importante de humor inglés. Aqui es el mensaje escribí a mi maestra: http://iteslj.org/c/jokes-puns.html Algunas 'puns' para ti! Generalmente, puns son sobre dos palabras cual suenan la misma (o al menos similar), pero tienen significados diferentes. Por ejemplo: --- Three tomatoes are walking down the street, a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. The baby tomato is lagging behind the poppa and momma tomato. The poppa tomato gets mad, goes over to the momma tomato and stamps on him and says: "catch up." (Porque 'catch up' suena similar a ketchup) --- O uno palabra con dos o mas significados, por ejemplo: --- 'One day an English grammar teacher was looking ill. A student asked, "What's the matter?" "Tense," answered the teacher, describing how he felt. The student paused, then continued, "What was the matter? What has been the matter? What might have been the matter... ?"' --- Un otro tipo de humor lingüístico in Inglés es de el construción de palabras. Por ejemplo la palabra "Deliberate" (como un verbo - deliberar). Sabemos la significa, pero el construción logico significa que debería significar "Imprison", porque 'de' es un prefijo que significa deshacer o inverso, y 'liberate' significa 'liberar'. De-liberate. No estoy seguro si estoy explicando este muy bien, pero espero lo ayuda! In inglés, decimos 'Nothing kills a joke faster than explaining it', entonces sé que probablemente no es gracioso para ti ahora! Pero quizás tu entiendes un poco mas sobre extraño humor Inglés. Pienso que generalmente lengua es la cosa mas importante para humor - me gustaría oír tus opiniones en diferencias en humor en idiomas diferente.June 12, 201410
The Speech For 5 Minutes
Today, I did a presentation about education and the future. Although I had not made an effort much much effort, I had learned from TED indirectly. A lot of TED lectures of TED gave me affluent ways to speak and get attention from the audience. (I understand this, but it's a slightly odd way to phrase it - I would say something like "Watching a lot of TED lectures helped me speak in a fluid way and gain the audience's attention.")
So, preparing was not difficult. All I could take was I could only take 5 minutes., and I had to stop if the bell rings rang. I started my speech by telling the two persons' people's stories. Soon Then, I related told them with about my topic. Lastly, I wrapped it up with a well-known poetry poem.
One of my purposes (I think 'intentions' or 'aims' is a better word here) is was to get attention from the audience. I imagined how many students would do other things during my speech. Because the subject 'education' was so cliche, that it is natural for the students to daydream during the speech. I'd like them not to didn't want them to look at their phones. So, I chose to introduce the two famous persons people at the beginning.
Time passed so fast faster than I expected, so I couldn't tell the whole things say everything that I wanted to say., Anyway, but I delivered the main message, and organized my suggestions well.
Afterwards, the professor asked the colleagues (Perhaps 'asked the other students'? 'Colleagues' means that you work at a job together, rather than learn together) to review my speech.
One of them told me that I had better should use more big gestures, and put an emphasis on the main point.
That was exactly what I agreed. (Or "That was exactly what I thought", but "I agreed" works just fine) I am not used to using gestures or tones to attract people.
The professor also agreed with her, and said that that weakness was what I should fill up myself with focus on.
She did not forget to compliment me. She said that all things except that were very good.
She is going to see how I will overcome my weak points weaknesses.
I think I should stop nursing a sense of anxiety, which hastened me up made me speak faster (or "sped me up").
If I were to be calm down, I could deliver in a more impressive way.This was very hard to correct - because you did a great job! I understood almost all of it straight away, and most of the corrections are not big mistakes, just very small points that help the English to flow and sound more natural.
The difference between 'persons' and 'people' is very subtle indeed, and many English speakers do not actually know the difference. 'Persons' as a plural is very rarely used though, so in general is better to only use 'People':
One person, two people.
One person's books, two people's books.
Bravo, anyway!0 votedApril 15, 20141- La primero vez... Hola! Esta es mi primero intento a una nota en español… Hoy tengo mi primero lección español - lo poco que hablo ahora es lo que aprendo de mis amigos en Mexico hace tres años - suficiente para conversaciones básicos, pero muy imperfecto sé! En los próximos meses, espero aprender el tiempo pasada y el tiempo futuro, aprender mejor gramática y conjugación, y escribir un poco en español cada día. Poco a poco, y con mucho practicar, aprendo. Espero sus correcciones!April 15, 201470
Hi! I'm Daniel from Mexico, I´m a student and I'd like to improve my English for that reason so I'm looking for someone that who can help me with that. If you are looking for to learn spanish I can help you too.
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Hola Daniel! Me llamo Aidan, y soy de Inglaterra. Estoy aprendiendo espanol porque tengo amigos Mexicanos y quiero sorpresa ellos! Tu Ingles is muy bueno, tienes solamente poco errores. Ahora mi espanol es malo, y estoy muy lento, pero quiero aprender y mejorar - si me escribes, tal vez podemos aprender juntos.
0 votedApril 14, 20141- These are all very subtle! Talk and Speak are basically the same - "I speak to my mother" and "I talk to my mother" are the same, and both are correct. But if you are talking about a language you would never say "I talk English", it is always "I speak English". Tell is used when you are giving someone information: "I will tell you my name if you tell me yours." or "I can't tell you my secret." Study is what you do to learn. In school, studying is reading about things and trying to remember them. When you remember the things you have read, you have learned them. You can study a history book, but you only learn the history in it when you can remember the information in it without reading the book. Fix and repair are the same. They are for physical objects - you fix a car, or fix a bike. Or you can repair a car, or repair a bike. They're all correct. Edit is different to repair and fix - it doesn't mean making something broken work again. It's normally used for text and means to change or correct something written: "I will edit my letter to correct the spelling mistakes." or "I will edit my essay to make it 500 words shorter." I hope this helps!0 votedApril 14, 20142
