Eating "Tiritas de Pescado" in Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan

In the past of the few days, all people said told me about the "Tiritas de Pescado." They said that it was the best food in Lazaro Cardenas and that I will can convert in turn into Superman if eat this (really I didn't really not think so) but so I was decided to go to eat this.

My first impression was "It's really this? These are the most famous Tiritas de Pescado?" Come on! I hoped expected a bigger fish with different vegetables and some spices. However, this was a few strips with cucumber, avocado, onion and much a lot of lemon (very much a whole lot!) and presented over served on some fried "tortillas". So, I decided to eat the first and the magic appeared! What flavor taste have this, the best "Tiritas de Pescado" that I have eaten (well, this was my first occasion hehe). The mix of fish with lemon, onion and some avocado was good but if when I put some of chilli chile, wow, it was the best!

Now, the next plate of food that i will proved try is "Carnitas al estilo Michoacan" (meat of pork fried with the secret receipt).

See you soon!

Sounds fantastic! Now I want some tostadas for lunch! :-)

OK I think I understand what the task is. I'll have a go.

CLASSWORK: KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION

the boss wouldn't object to you going early today
OBJECTION
the boss would not........ raised objection to .........you going early today

The boss would have no objection to you going early today.


we demanded to see the hotel manager to make our complaint
INSISTED
we..... have insisted to ...........the hotel manager to make our complaint

We insisted on seeing the hotel manager to make our complaint.


I'm sure it was Ana I saw in town as I recognised her coat
MUST
it...... must be......... Ana I saw in town as I recognised her coat

It must have been Ana whom I saw in town today, as I recognized her coat.


there's no point asking Lynda to help as she's really busy
WASTE
it's........a waste of time....... asking Lynda to help as she's really busy

Yup...that's how I'd say it...


I was too tired to go to the party
THAT
I was....... so tired that......... I couldn't go to the party

Yup...sounds good that way.

What are human rights? Introduction.

Hello everyone!

Today is Tuesday, the second day of the week, and I think that is a good opportunity to keep talking about Human Rights. For that reason, I'm going to try to explain to you in my own words the definition of Human Rights or What are Human Rights?

Human Rights are rights that you have by the only fact that you are a human being and that's mean those rights are inalienable. When we say that those rights are inalienable we are saying that nobody can violate your Human Rights.

Human Rights has have some characteristics. One of them is the principle of "Universality" which means that every person in the world, in every moment, in every circumstances and in every place has human rights and all the States have the responsibility to respect them.

Perhaps you are wondering when and why we started to talk about Human Rights and why we started. In my next comment I'm going to write a little about this story.

I hope that this write (entry? journal? writing?) had been useful for you.

See you in the next notebook entry. comment.

My weekend

This is one of those days I want to write something, but I can't pick a topic... So I'm just going to talk about my weekend. Pretty easy, but I think one of my weakest points of English is to the use of past tenses. I need to work on that.

I checked out of work (I'm never sure if this expression is ok...you can probably say "clocked out" and it would sound more natural - or simply say "left work") on Friday at 23.00. I usually have a beer with some friends on Friday, so I did it that. But I was extremely tired and I went home early.

The next day I hanged hung out with my best friend; we went to a gig. My best friend has recently broken up with his girlfriend after five years being together, so he really need his friends close to him. It was a great night, the band played all our favourite songs. I think he had a really good time and I'm very happy about it. He is still a little bit sad though; it's hard to get over a breakup, but he's doing well.

Well my entry is not very long or complex, but I have to get used to write more frequently here, so here it is! Thanks for reading and correcting :)

I was very picky - at your level it's diffcult to find corrections. One punctuation item, which even many native speakers have difficulty with is the ";" semi-colon separates two independent clauses, each of which could stand as their own sentence. Commas separate a main clause and it's dependent clause. Really picky stuff!

Make me laugh: how to translate a good joke.

Are we able to tell foreing people foreigners a good joke without the meaning being lost in translation? It is trough ones It's a tough one (I think that is what you mean). In my opinion, it is not possible. A joke is a summary of mixture of cultural background and local grammar uses. Besides, we may must keep in mind that a good joke usually describes a funny view relative to current issues happening in different countries, social groups or communities. Therefore, our capabilities capacity/probability to enjoy that joke will rise longer increase if we belong to those groups. However, someone may refuse refute this point of view if we consider that we have all an universal sense of humour, like it is proved as has been proven by successful comedies that everybody enjoys them despite being foreigners. For me, it is a wrong analyze poor analogy, due to because enjoying a sitcom or even so a funny movie doesn't mean it would be the same when we talk about with jokes. Based on this, I propose a game to prove what I say. I will translate a very popular spanish joke and in case I make you laugh, please tell me a good joke in your own language. Here is the joke translated:

Two friends introduce each other himself. One of them says:
- Hi, my name is Bartolo, but Everybody calls me Bartolome.
And the other claims:
- My name is Paco, but I prefer that you call me to have lunch.

In Spanish is:
- Hola, me llamo Bartolo, pero todo el mundo me llama Bartolomé.
- Yo soy Paco (Francisco nickname), pero prefiero que me llames Pa-comé (para comer in slang).

Wow that was a tough topic. I think you are correct in that many jokes are a play on words or current popular culture, and they cannot be translated. I'm not a good jokster, but if I think of one, I'll share it with you :-)