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- I Don't Have Time For This Or That! "I don't have time" who has never said that? I think it's our favorite answer when we're asked questions such as: "Why don't you exercise?", "why don't your read more often?" or "why don't you learn a foreign language?", for instance. We are often complaining about lacking time to do important things, but when it comes to cell phones and Internet we happen to have plenty of time to spend on, don't we? So "I don't have time" often means "It's not a priority". I saw this great presentation on TEDTalks yesterday about time management. After watching it, I realized two things: one, I've wasted a lot of time with unimportant things and two, I have time to spare. The presenter talked about a studying she did by looking at the schedule of successful people to figure how they manage their time As a result what she found was that even those extremely busy people had time for things that really matter, they sometimes just don't treat them as priorities. Furthermore, she also gave tips and strategies on how to manage our time. Firstly, we have to reflect for a moment and try to find our priorities. Then we put them first in our schedule, this way we dedicate more time to fulfilling such tasks. Secondly, we look at the weeks ahead of us and see where we can plan them in. Therefore, I think to accomplish anything in life we must have planning and strategies. This goes for time as well, everyone has time to do anything, no matter how busy one is. The question is: are you dedicating time to what's important? Once we have a plan, things fall into place nicely and suddenly we have to time for the good stuff.
February 9, 201731 - Mi casa y mi familia Hoy quiero hablar un poco sobre mi casa y mi familia, así puedo practicar el vocabulario nuevo. Vivo en una casa pequeña. Mi casa tiene dos dormitorios, dos baños, una cocina, una sala de estar y una garaje. No hay un comedor en mi casa porque tenemos una cocina americana. También tengo un patio grande dónde mis perros pueden correr y jugar. Además, hay una árbol atrás de mi casa, esta árbol es de mi vicino, pero puedo verla porque es muy grande. Ella también atrae muchos pájaros. Entonces, todos los dias por la mañana escucho pajatitos cantando. Mi familia no es grande también. Son solamente yo, mi madre, mi padre y mi hermana. Apenas la familia de mi padre viven en Brasília, en la miesma ciudad que nosotros. Ya la familia de mi madre vive en otro estado que está lejos de aquí, entonces solo puedo verlos pocas veces, pero hablo con ellos dos veces por mes. Mis abuelos, padres de mi padre, ya falleceran. Por tanto, solo tengo mis abuelos, padres de mi madre, pero viven lejos de me y siento mucha falta de ellos, apesar de hablar con ellos cada mes.February 8, 2017110
■To have a good pronounciation you have to read out loud. Silent reading has no benefits for people learning foreign languages. This helped me improve my pronunciation tremendously! Or, you can record yourself talking, that way you get to hear how your pronounciation is. Have you tried singing songs with their lyrics? It's a very fun way to practice your pronunciation as well, plus you will be practicing not only your pronunciation, but your listening too!
■To understand native speakers you have to listen to English a lot. And by "a lot" I mean every day. How can you do that? Listening to music, watching movies and TV series. Do you like YouTube? Awesome! Use that as a tool to practice your listening, look for interesting channels to keep up with. There's no magic trick, in order to have a better understanding of any language you have to listen to native speakers. I'm going to recommend you a great channel on YouTube: engVid. This channel is amazing, the teachers are Canadians and each one of them has their own channel, so you can pick the ones you like the most. All of them are great, you can learn idioms, phrasal verbs and a lot of vocabulary. Furthermore, after watching the video you can go to their website and do exercises. I highly recommend this channel. You can also watch American youtubers. Look for channels you're interested in and practice your listening!
Like you, I've been studying English for a long time, I started when I was 11. I graduated from an English course last year and let me tell you, no language course is going to make you fluent, you have to work hard. I consider my English good, it's not perfect though. I have a great listening and writing, my speaking is OK, but there's always room for improvements, right? Don't give up! You have to practice every day to achieve fluency. Speak like there's no tomorrow lol!
0 votedJanuary 31, 20170Um filme legendado
Não muito tempo atrás [ou: Há pouco tempo] assisti a um filme brasileiro de animação chamado Uma História de Amor e Fúria. Ainda não consigo entender quando as pessoas falam no filme, mas graças à legenda em português, eu entendi quase tudo. Procurei outros filmes, mas não encontrei. Escutar e ler no mesmo idioma funciona para mim. Alguém tem uma sugestão onde posso procurar?
Obrigada! :)0 votedJanuary 31, 20171- Hermosa melodía A cada día que pasa estoy más y más enamorada por el español! Semana pasada recebí muchas recomendaciones sobre cantantes y canciones en español. Escuché todas las recomendaciones y también yo miesma encontré otros cantantes que a me gustó mucho enquanto escuchava las conciones en YouTube. No puedo explicar lo hermosa que son las canciones en español porqué no tengo palabras para describirlas. Español es una lengua muy hermosa y quando escucho canciones sona más hermosa todavía. Cuándo era una niña las únicas canciones en español que escuchava era las del grupo Rebelde, pues hacía un grande éxito en Brasil. Además, recuerdo que ha gustado mucho de la melodía, apesar de no entender mucho las canciones. Ahora que conocí más sobre canciones en español, pretendo conocer más cantantes y también assisti películas en español. Las únicas películas en español que recuerdo haber visto fueron El Laberinto Del Fauno y REC. Además, me gusta mucho las series de TV, assisto muchas series americanas, entonces pretendo asistir algunas en español también. Hay dos que me gustán mucho y quiero asistirlas de nuevo: El Chavo Del Ocho y Chapolin, porque las asistí doblada.January 25, 201761
- ¿Ustedes podrian recomendarme Canciones en español?
I'd appreciate if you guys recommended singers or songs in Spanish to me. I'd love to get to know more about Spanish speaking countries music. One of the best ways to practice new languages is by listening to songs of the target language, right? Thanks!
My Spanish is still very basic level, so I had to write it in English to avoid writing "portunhol" lol
January 16, 2017122 Olá primo Esteban! Aqui estão algumas das músicas que não poderia deixa de levar comigo para essa ilha. Há muitos estilos de música brasileira que não me agradam, por isso essas são as músicas que eu recomendaria a qualquer pessoa que queira conhecer músicas brasileiras. Espero que você goste!
Pitty (Uma das minhas cantoras favoritas, escuto-a desde criança):
•Equalize;
•Na Sua Estante;
•Admirável Chip Novo;
•Semana Que Vem;
•Sete Vidas;
•Teto de Vidro;
•Anacrônico
•Emboscada;
•De Você;
•Memórias;
•Dejà Vu;
•Máscara;
•Temporal.
Legião Urbana
•Pais e Filhos;
•Faroeste Caboclo;
•Que País é Este;
•Quase Sem Querer;
•Tempo Perdido;
•Há Tempos.
Capital Inicial
•Melhor do Que Ontem;
•À Sua Maneira;
•Não Olhe Pra Trás;
•Primeiros Erros;
•Coração Vazio;
•Natasha.
•Depois da Meia Noite.
Charlie Brown Jr.
•Me Encontra;
•Só Os Loucos Sabem;
•Só Por Uma Noite;
•Meu Novo Mundo;
• Céu Azul;
•Um Dia a Gente Se Encontra;
•Dias de luta, Dias de Glória;
•Senhor do Tempo;
•Ela Vai voltar;
•Lutar Pelo Que é Meu;
•Hoje Eu Acordei Feliz.
Raul Seuxas
•Metamorfose Ambulante;
•Tente Outra Vez;
•Eu Nasci Há Dez Mil Anos Atrás.
Titãs
•Epitáfio;
•É Preciso Saber Viver.
Raimundos - Mulher de Fases.
0 votedJanuary 14, 20170- Palabras nuevas Voy a escrebir algunas frases con las palabras que aprendí durante esta semana para practicalas (?) en un contexto. 1)Tengo cinco perros y un gato. 2)Mí aniversario es en abril. Voy a completar (¿o hacer?) diecinueve años. [I meant to say "I'm going to turn 19", is it like in Portuguese? Do you guys use the verbes "to make" and "to complete" like we do in this context?] 3)Mí gusta leer libros y periódicos, pero solamente leo los artículos que mí interesa. 4)No sé cocinar muy buen, todavía pretendo aprender a cocinar mejor. 5)Como pan casi todos los días en el desayuno. 6)Cuando yo era una niña comía muchas manzanas, por esono como tantas actualmente. [Here, I meant to say "When I was a kid..." I really don't know how to say this in Spanish haha] 7)Bebo leche cada semana, pero no bebo café desde los diez años. 8)Siempre perdía mis bolígrafos en la escuela. 9)Prefiero comer huevo cocido que frito. 10)Mí gusta mucho pescado frito. 11)Tenía um pez muy hermoso cuando yo era una niña. 12)Quiero aprender a manejar (¿o conducir?) un carro (¿o coche?) ***If you guys gave some tips on how to improve my sentences so they can sound more natural I'd be very grateful!***January 14, 201760
