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    I am spanish, so I do not know if my opinion will be very useful... I guess that tourists look for beaches and white villages with arabic and baroque architecture in Southern Spain. In eastern regions, they are interested in both beaches and elegant Mediterranean cities like Barcelona or Valencia. In Castilla, historical and monumental cities are the main attraction: Salamanca, Toledo, León... Castilla was also the home of Don Quixote! Madrid appeals by itself. Finally, Northern Spain offers a different lanscape: little villages of wooden and stone houses among pines and oakwoods, cliffs besides the Cantabric sea, cities of 19th century frenchified architecture...

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    June 4, 2014
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    Bon soir! Dans le Lycée, nous avons etudié autant l'Anglais et le Français, mais aujourd'hui j'ai le dernier un peu oublié. J'ai de relire mes vieux livres...

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    I like Portuguese. It sounds colorful and suggestive. I spent two of the best holidays of my life in Lisbon and Oporto, so I guess I link Portuguese to blue Atlantic beaches, cities of colorful houses and white stone palaces surrounded by gardens and palm trees

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    June 4, 2014
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    Como ayudar a tu compañero con su lenguage

    Le Te dare un resumen acerca de como ayudarse el uno al otro

    1) Contacta a un compañero para intercambiar idiomas
    2) Hablen de temas interesantes
    3) Se paciente
    4) Actua como un professor profesor, corrije corrige los errores a tu compañero inmediatamente
    5) Aprende vocabularios lo mas que puedas
    6) Agenda Acuerda un dia para hablar siempre con su tu compañero
    7) Escucha POdcasts en el idioma que aprendes y practicalo con tu compañéro
    8) No hagas perder el tiempo a tu compañero
    9) Los Buenos resultados vendran

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    June 4, 2014
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    Necesito visitar un médico (mi practica en espanol)

    Hace tres dias, tuve dolor en mi pecho. Mis dedos se sintieron extraños y mi cabeza se sintió mareado mareada. Tengo problemas con respiración después del accidente. No sé que la problema fue qué problema fue o como estaba enfermo. Visitaré un médico pronto. Mi hermano, cuya novia es una enfermera, me dijo que tengo problemas con ansiedades la ansiedad. Es probablemente verdad, porque la noche pasado pasada, tuve otro accidente. Mi esposa, mi cuñada y yo fuimos a la cinema al cine. Veíamos la película "Godzilla," pero todo no era bien. La sonidos de la película fue eran fuertes y después de veinte minutos tuve más dolor en mi pecho un otra vez. Espero que la el problema es sea solo ansiedad y nada más.

    Gracias por tu ayuda.

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    June 4, 2014
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    Provinces and Regions: Why is Spanish territorial division so complicated? Spanish administrative division is claimed to be too complex. To understand it, we need to have in mind that there are two kind of territorial demarcations in Spain, one superposed over the other. On the one hand, we have the provinces. This subdivision was created in the 18th century, after the Succession War. The new Borbon King, Felipe the Fifth, needed to divide his Kingdom in little and homogeneous demarcations administered by royal representatives, in order to impose the absolutist and centralized model of France. The other purpose of the measure was to dissolve the souvenir of the former kingdoms, like Aragón, Catalonia or Valencia. Provinces are claimed to be artificial districts, but many of them were based in little kingdoms from the medieval ages; and, if you see the boundaries, they do not seem to be traced with rulers. Nevertheless, after two centuries of history, a feeling of community based in the provinces has been developed; after all, people from the villages usually travelled to the capital towns, because many public services were centralized there. On the other hand, there are the regions or “Autonomous Communities”. They were ideated in the Second Republic (1931-1936) as an intermediate solution between a centralized State and a Federal one, in order to satisfy the nationalist demands of some historical regions, like Catalonia or Basque Country. The solution was recovered after Franco’s death, but then it was seen as another kind of homogeneous territorial division, so many regions without the same historical connotations acceded to this status –cause of this, nationalist movements are arising again nowadays. Regions are self-governing in some subjects, and share other competencies with Madrid.
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    Spanish speaker reading about learning Spanish Wow, I have just read the Spanish lessons in the Articles section, and I had never seen Spanish Grammar in such a different way. Fortunately, I did not have to memorize so many rules to use the subjunctive, or choose between ser and estar (I have never realized that the difference between "Pedro es listo" and "Pedro está listo" could be so confusing for foreign students!). It should be similar to the choice between verb+ing or to+infinitive when I try to write something in English. Ah, finally, don't worry too much about accent punctuation. RAE (the Spanish Language Academy) changes the rules all the time. Even Spanish native speakers make quite mistakes!
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    Nevertheless, University has never been free in Spain. However, there was a scholarship system that allowed working and middle classes to access to higher education. That system considered both economical and academic requirements, so saying that it didn't encourage the talented students is a lie. But Education Ministers from all Europe are thinking about replace scholarships with loans, following the examples of United Kingdom and EEUU. I believe that it implies a great risk. We have been blamed for the economic crisis, because we had applied for desproportionate mortgages in order to buy a home, without evaluating if we could pay it back with certainity. And suddenly, we are told to repeat the same in order to study! It's so hypocrite and dangerous! In countries like Chile and EEUU, most of the students are endebted for the rest of their lifes; and social movements are arising to "rescue" them, as if debt slavery had come back! The only purpose of turning a right or basic need into a business is to try to boost the economy by creating other financial bubble, and all of us know how the real estate bubble finished... Moreover, some decades ago, young people with university degrees found inmediatly good jobs, and they used to earn high wages; but nowdays, the employment situation is depressing, even for a person with a doctorate. Only few students will be able to pay their debts in the short-term. Finally, after some years, in order to avoid defaults, banks will grant loans only to students from wealthy families, the only ones that will be able to guarantee the payment. Consequently, higher education and knowledge will become a privilege of the upper classes; and equal opportunity will be a bad taste joke.

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    June 2, 2014
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    I believe that this question is deceptive. No Educational level is free; we support them by our taxes! Here in Spain,  Administrations are imposing payments for social services, considered basic social rights for decades: Education, Healthcare, Justice, even demonstrations! The answer from the social movements is that those services have been supported by our taxes for decades, and we are still paying the same taxes, even more! So the word "co-payment" (that implies that social expenses are shared by both Administration and citizens) is a deceptive expression; instead of it, we should speak about "re-payment" better. Moreover, according the theory of Social Contract, we accept a power system over us, that includes to pay taxes and obbey laws, in order to protect our personal rights and coordinate our strengths to cover our living expenses more easily. The problem is that the most of the money from our taxes is paying the private debt of our banks...

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    June 2, 2014
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  • Commented

    Spanish:

    Father -> Padre (from latin Pater)

    Mother ->Madre (from latin Mater)

    Son -> Hijo (from latin filus)

    Daughter -> Hija

    Brother -> Hermano (from latin fratri germani)

    Sister -> Hermana

    Light (noun)-> luz (from latin lux)

    Darkness -> oscuridad (from latin obscurus)

    Heat ->calor (from latin calor)

    Coldness-> frío (from latin frigidus)

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    June 2, 2014
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