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- Diario de mis viajes - desde Antigua, Guatemala Ayer llegue en Antigua, una cuidad hermosa en Guatemala. He estado en Guatemala por dos semanas, estudiando español a una escuela en San Pedro Atitlan. Vine a Antigua ayer para encontrarnos una amiga de nueva Zelanda. Con mi amiga, vamos a viajar a centroamérica por seis semanas. El martes vamos a subir un volcán cerca Antigua - este volcán es activo, y en la noche es posible para escuchar las erupciones y ver la lava y fuego elevase de la cumbre. Para ver el volcán, vamos a caminar cuesto arriba por seis horas, y después de un poco dormir vamos a escalar otra vez a las cuatro para ver el amanecer. Creó que estará un paseo muy difícil, pero muy increíble y gratificante. ¡Gracias por corregirme!December 28, 201552
- Ejercicio en traducción: visita a puerto rico Estoy practicando el petitorio con una traducción de texto siguiendo, de inglés a español. I went to visit Puerto Rico last January. It was wonderful. A friend of mine is a travel agent, and when she offered me the opportunity to go to the Caribbean for a week of fun and sun - for very little money - I said to her, when do we go? The day that we left it snowed six inches here. When we arrived in San Juan, sun, heat and sand greeted us. We took a taxi to our hotel, I took my bathing suit out of my suitacse and we went to the beach. The next day we went to El Yunque, the rain forest, where we walked for hours and say many beautiful birds and trees. I couldn't believe it - it was so beautiful! The next day we went to Luquillo beach and swam and read and relaxed. We did this every day until - alas! - we had to return to reality. El enero pasado, fui a Puerto Rico. Era maravilloso. Una amiga de mia es una agente de viajes y cuando mi ofreció la oportunidad para ir al caribe - por no mucho dinero - se lo dije, ¿cuando vamos? El día que salimos nevó seis pulgadas aquí. Cuando llegamos en San Juan, sol, calor, y arena nos saludaron. Tomamos un taxi a nuestro hotel, lo saqué mi traje de baño desde mi maleta y fuimos a la playa. Al día siguiente, fuimos a El Yunque, la selva tropical, donde caminamos por horas y vivimos muchos pájaros y árboles hermosos. No puede creerlo, era tan hermosa. Al dia siguiente fuimos a la playa Luquillo y nadamos y leemos y relajado. Hicimos todos los días hasta ¡ay! Necesitamos regresar a realidad. Gracias por corregirme!December 22, 2015110
- Una carta por mi familia Esta semana he quedado con una familia en guatemala. Quiero darles una carta para decir gracias por sus hospitalidad. Es esto correcto? Queridos Deborah, Pedro y todo la familia Muchas gracias por quedarme con ustedes y por sus hospitalidad. Ha gustado mucho a conocer ustedes, y he apreciado que hablan español conmigo y me ayudan para mejorar. Esperó que tengan una maravilloso navidad y disfruta de tiempo juntas con la familia Janine Las correcciones son bienvenidos!December 18, 201580
- La semana pasada El lunes pasado, fui en Bremen, en el norte de Alemania, con un equipo construyendo (or should i say "han construido"?) un barco. Aprendí hacer aparejo ("rigging" en inglés) por el barco, incluido tradicional protecciones por las cuerdas desde cuero. En las casa de los voluntarios, todos compartir responsabilidad para cocinar por todos. Cuando estuvo mi noche para cocinar, hice hamburguesas de nueva Zelanda - con piña, remolacha, y huevos fritos. Estuvieron deliciosas y muy popular con mis amigos. Después salí allí, fui a Munster visitar una amiga de nueva Zelanda, ella vive en Munster ahora. Cuando estuve en Munster fuimos al restaurante al lado de río para cenar, y después al bar que era muy popular cuando mi amiga era a universidad. Pero ahora.... ¡No es lo mismo!September 4, 201520
- Mi camino a Santiago Ayer yo termine un camino a Santiago. Cuando la gente habla sobre "el camino de Santiago" normalmente ellos piensen sólo del camino francés. Pero, hay muchos caminos desde muchos lugares en España y más lejos. Yo anduve el camino primitivo, desde Oviedo a Santiago. Es cerca 320 kilometres de largo, y necesites dos semanas que andar. Disfruté este camino mucho. Hay paisajes increíbles; montañas, pueblos, bosques, granjas - todos los días la vista esta cambiando. Y también me gustan las comidas de España - durante mi camino comí especialidades locales como pulpo, pimientos de padrón, tarta de Santiago.... Y mucho tortilla! Pero la mejor cosa de mi camino fue las personas que conocí. El camino es una oportunidad único conocer gente desde diferentes países, diferentes culturas, diferentes formas de vida. Pero a pesar de estas diferencias tienes algo en común - el camino - y, a menudo mucho más de lo que imagina.July 16, 201560
- A la fiesta del vino! Ahora estoy en Haro, un pueblo en la región Rioja, en el norte de España. Esta región es famosa por la producción del vino. Una vez al año hay una fiesta de vino - la batalla! Esta mañana nos hemos levantado a las siete y hemos caminado a la cima de la colina cerca el pueblo. Aquí había muchos gentes, tirando vino con cubas, pistolas de agua, "súper soakers" y otras cosas. Todas las gentes llevan blanco, y pronto todas son el color púrpura.June 29, 201560
The fear to technology (technophobia)
A common place fear (not sure if this is the word you want, but you need to say what it is that is common place) in modern arts and pop culture is the fear to of technology. We could say that such fear got in deepest in the soul of our times, because of the industrial revolution and all the complex situations which have arisen since then as a threats for the humans and our environment.
In fact, the dominant production mode (capitalism) implies a continuous revolution [I think you mean to say "evolution" as in things constantly being changed and improved] in the technology used in the production processes, and that implies that people are replaced by machines, and in on the other hand, much of this many of these people are reduced to doing repetitive activities, as appendices of the machinery.
If we carry this picture to his its last consequences, we could arrive to an apocalyptic landscape where machines took the control of the whole production processes, and the most of the humans have been reduced to be slaves. All the more, at some point the machines get some awareness and rebel against the humans; so, they eventually unite and do a revolution. [we wouldn't say "do" a revolution - you could "start a revolution", "have a revolution", or simply just "revolt"]
That sounds familiar for you? perhaps in literature? in series and movies? Yep, it's funny, the common sense of the dominant culture is able to imagine the revolution of the machines, and the fall of the humans, but in the same way, it can't imagine the end of the capitalism, the end of the dominant production mode, it can't imagine the revolution of the people. What is wrong with this the common sense here! The human dominant class think that the end of the capitalism, is the real end of the human civilization, because it would be the end of their preponderant role.
We have to change our common sense. The improvement in the technologies and the industrial production in a wider sense, don't have to cause social or environmental threats. If a machine can do the work of five people, they don't would have to lose their job, or being reduced to being appendices. Such would have to address a decrease of the workday, keeping the same salary, and so, getting time to the persons to improve their knowledge over the world, to improve their singularities, and also, to be citizens. [This sentence needs a bit of a re-write to make sense. This may not capture exactly what you are trying to say, but I would suggest: "This would require there to be a decrease in workday hours while keeping the same salary. This would allow people to have more time to improve their knowledge about the world, to undertake self-improvement and also to carry out their civic duties.]
But, for that, we haven't don't have need to fear the machines (or technology in a wider sense), we have to change our common sense of how the things have to be done, we have to get awareness, unite and fight (in a wider sense), fight for the change.
* * *Nice essay :) Obviously you have very advanced English skills, with a very broad vocabulary and excellent grasp of grammar. My overarching recommendation would be to try to reduce the length of your sentences. Shorter sentences are easier for a reader to follow and also force you as the writer to be specific and carefully hone your points. As a guide try to stick to 20-30 words as the maximum length. Look for commas, semicolons, "that", "which", "and" as places where you can split a long sentence. Hope that helps - as always, feel free to message me if you have any questions on my edits!
0 votedJune 27, 20151The Podemos effect (attempt two)
Spain is living a rupture of it's its party system, where there existed the hegemony of two parties until now; both are falling faililng because of their commitment to the adjustment policies which have been dismantling the welfare state, while they rescued the banks' banks [I don't think it's correct to use a possesive here, but if you are talking about something that belongs to the banks you need to be clearer as to what that is - it's not obvious from the context] ; furthermore, both are fully involved in a massive structural corruption issue. [Just a style note - having two semi-colons in one sentence is unusal. This would read better if you broke it into two or more sentences instead.]
On the other hand, Podemos is formed by people who have been fighting against the adjustments, against the evictions, claiming the rescue of the people instead of the banks. This is why Podemos is growing up, in just one year, they achieved five MEPs, and obtained the power in city halls all over the country, including the mayoralty in Barcelona, Madrid, Zaragoza, La Coruña and Cádiz.
They have serious possibilities [a common expression you could use here is "they have a real chance"] of winning the next general elections which will take place in November.
The people in around the world, who are struggling to save the planet and humanity from ourselves, are paying attention to Podemos' successes. While it is true that they pick up the Latin-American experience (our experience) from the last years of struggle against the neoliberalism, now their rise is feeding us and is renewing our morale and hopes, it's feedback with fresh winds.
Podemos is not going to have a measurable effect, say, in the next elections in Colombia which will happen in October. But the people in the leftwing political circles, we are talking about them, and thinking, “so, yes, we can” (podemos), so, as a result, the successes of Podemos are possibly helping to boost a huge movement right now, maybe, [as you've already said "possibly"] around Latin-America. Though we cannot see it's its impact before some years pass, it's true that a lot of people are awakening.
Another world is possible, we can change it.---------
Nice entry - very well written for some challenging subject matter! I'm sure you know the rules for it's/its so I haven't explained them - but feel free to message me if you have any questions on my comments :)
0 votedJune 27, 20151- Practising past tenses - pretirite simple and pretirite imperfecto Este año estoy viajando el mundo. Salí de Nueva Zelanda en abril y fui a Japón por tres semanas. Es un país muy interesante y la comida es fantástico. Después Japón viajé a Turquía y subí en un globa de aire caliente - una experiencia increíble! Ahora estoy en Madrid con amigos, relajando antes que hacemos el camino de Santiago. En Madrid, cada mañana mi amiga Linda hacía desayuno por nos. Ella hacía gachas de avena con plátano y café también. Es un buen comienzo para el día.June 27, 201570
