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Nobody walks along the life without having trodden in false, nobody gathers roses without feeling its thorns... Nobody tastes love without feeling pain. Because it's better to fail for trying a victory, than to stop triumphing for fear of failure. Fight for what you want and really love the life you live, do not distress yourself fort the past that has gone; neither for the future that still does not come, live through the present and make it so beautiful that you could always remember it. When someone gives you a smile be generous and give back yours, because nobody is needier than that one who cannot smile. Nobody is that poor that cannot smile, and nobody will never be so rich to do not need it... Eventually through life you become aware After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul and you learn that love does not mean get laid and company does not mean security, and you begin to learn ... that kisses are not contracts and presents are not promises and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open. Over time you will also learn the price of money ... and then you will realize that: You can buy a house but not a home, you can buy an expensive bed, but cannot buy sleep, you can buy a fancy watch, but cannot buy the time, you can buy a Book but not the Knowledge, you can buy a position, but not the Respect, you can buy medicines but not your health, you can buy blood, but not life, can pay for sex, but not for Love...Over time you will learn to forgive or apologize, say that you love, say that you miss, that you need others, that you want know how to be a good friend. Before a tomb, no longer has any meaning. But unfortunately, all this is learned only with the time
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    @John you're right, English doesn't have the gender agreement in the articles/noun just the agreement in number and this is exactly what I wanted to know, you as an English native speaker do you think this grammar point in Spanish is too hard for you taking into account it's something doesn't exist in your mother tongue?... I just want to know how hard for English speakers is this fact because for me the pronunciation is the hardest thing in English. Concerning the grammar I guess it's not as hard as in any romance language because the conjugation doesn't have many changes and you guys don't have a lot of tenses as Spanish does. But Even so, I guess just because of the pronunciation English outranks Spanish as we just have five vowel souns as the written ones. 

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    How does literal translation help in your language learning process? Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation when we just want to know the meaning of the word itself, but specially when learning idioms, and slang, in general, most of the phrases in the target language won't be exactly the same as in our first language, this is when the literal translation betrays us and doesn't help as it's expected to do it. What do you guys think, is it better to find equivalent phrases and words to get closer to the real meaning in the target language even when the translation could go way far from its literal meaning? or do you think helps better to literally translate each word in a sentence? Please, leave your comment according to your own experience learning your second or third language, what has worked better for each of you? Thanks
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    ¡Pensar en los niños!

    En esta semana, ha surgido un debate en Colombia debido a la decisión del Corte Constitucional por haber permitido a las parejas homosexuales adoptar niños. Mientras hubo una ola de celebración por parte de la comunidad lesbico-gay, el núcleo conservativo del país ha realizado objeciones por la supuesta violación al concepto tradicional de la familia. Marco Velásquez-Ruiz adoptó un punto de vista muy fuerte contra este crítico en su blog, por hacer el caso de que hay un montón suficiente de evidencia científica habiendo negado que niega una conexión entre la orientación sexual de los padres (o las madres) y el desarrollo de los niños. Él Velásquez citaó los hallazgos de la asociación psicológica americana (APA por sus siglas en inglés) La American Psychological Association y acusó les acusa a los criticós de la por la decisión de cegarse a de los hechos. Además, él no sólo presentaó el asunto como político-social, sino que además uno de lo vinculó con la creencia religiosa. También hace emitió un argumento enunciado conmovedor emocional para los derechos, la seguridad y la protección de los niños. Estoy de acuerdo con Velásquez-Ruiz cuando dice digo que lo más importante es que se proporcióneales a los niños un ambiente seguro con de afección y amor, y con el fin de que salgan de la crianza infancia con el maduro madurez y la preparación social para así enfrentarse el mundo actual. Sin embargo, el punto  que le gana para a Velásquez-Ruiz que su no tuvo argumento ante es el hecho de que más que cinco mil niños ya se han abandonados en el país este año, aún con una falta de desde hace un mes y medio hasta la fecha  el cabo. Todos abandonados por una madre y un padre. Por lo tanto eso, es resulta difícil no estar de acuerdo con el lógico del artículo cuando sugiere lo que no deberíamos dejar impedir/evitar a los niños de para que reciban un hogar digno cariñoso sin preocuparnos sobre en el género ni la orientación sexual de los padres. 

     

    Hola amigo Mike, 

     

    Your translating skill are very good; however, you should consider this suggestions that would make you sound more formal and closer to a native speaker. The articles you have chosen are very interested ones. Puedo ayudarte a mejorar si me lo permites, tú me ayudarías muchísimo en mi inglés porque estoy comenzando apenas. ;) saludos!


    http://blogs.eltiempo.com/desmarcado/2015/11/09/adopcion-igualitaria-en-colombia/

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    @Camilo Thanks for your comment. I differ a little bit with yout considering that providing a full immersion environment to learnners of any language doesn't merely mean they have to be in the country where the language is spoken. I guess it's possible to create scenarios and contexts for learners to learn a language but the question was, we as learners of a second, third or more languages from our personal experience do we think this is more meaningful for our learning or it's better when our first language is used to constantly translate what's not understood. I don't know whether I made myself clear enough

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    @ Daniel H Rosa I do agree with you, but what's your opinion regarding this issue?

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    What do you guys think about full immersion when learning a new language?

    "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela

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    Dear @Sara Saxton in my personal search to learn your language I found on the internet on several web pages this information, (such this page: http://www.elementalenglish.com/vowel-sounds-english/). According to these pages English vowels are not reduced to only the written vowels as when a known written is combined to a consonant it can change its sounds, same thing happens when in combination to other vowels and depending to their place in the word (whether at the beginning, in the middle or at the end) it can be pronounced different. Actually I've found that some poeple say there more than 14. take a look at the phonemes written below: 

     

    [iy]

    “leave” [liyv]
    [ɪ]

    “give” [gɪv]
    [ʊ]
    “book” [bʊk]
    [uw]

    “blue” [bluw]
    [ow]

    “go” [gow]
    [ey]

    “brave” [breyv]
    [ə]

    “photography” [fə TA grə fiy]
    [ʌ]

    “stuff” [stʌf]
    [ɝ]

    “perfect” [PɝR fɪkt]
    [ɚ]

    “regular” [RɛG gyə lɚr]
    [æ]

    “jazz” [dʒæz]
    [ɛ]

    “best” [bɛst]
    [ɔ]

    “taught” [tɔt]
    [ɑ]

    “job” [dʒɑb]

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    @Mike Thanks for commenting. I really appreciate your suggestion for that online web site. I'm quite interested to practice my speeh with a native speaker as I can't go on with out achieving this stage. I find English pronunciation the most important part of the language as I have noticed that even when some natives speakers break the English rules they are understood by other natives just because they got the accent. People have told me everything I write is well understood but not when I speak so that made me think English proununciation plays a very important role in the learning language process as I know everything that I write but if poeple doesn't undestand me could be because maybe I don't give one pitch of the real sounds and instead of saying what I wanna say I end up saying quite the opposite. So I reallized that this could be because in English a words can have more than one meaning and if a foreigner is speaking slowly because is afraid to commit mistakes that leads her/him to be misundertood. I will look for the web site you provided me tho. Thanks a lot

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    @Sarah Saxton, thanks for contributing with your comment. You're right and I do agree with your point of view, but I wasn't sure whether saying if it was harder than Spanish as I'm aware it has many difficult points as its pronunciation and idioms but concerning its grammar I guess is not as hard as romance languages. I consider Chinese or Arabic even harder than romance languages because of the grammar structure. As you know English has a wide variety of sounds but concerning the grammar I guess is not as complicated. I mean in my case I've been studying it for some months and people understands me whe I write it down but when it comes to speak seems no body understands what I'm saying. Thought it was because of my pronunciation. 

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    100% vegetarian guy here.  I love being a vegetarian, but I rather eat at home than going out Lol

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