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Joanna Abaya-Young
Filipino (Tagalog)
Oct 13, 2016
Salamat Mike. Sa susunod, mag-eensayo tayo. (Thanks Mike. Next time, we are going to do some practice.)
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    Fraud in Italki

    I've been checking different entries on the notebook of Italki written by "`community tutors" that offers lessons in Spanish and I've realised they have no idea about the Spanish language.
    That makes me think of a possible fraud on Italki. Spanish is the official language spoken in 21 countries, each country has their own national academy that looks for the correct use of the language respecting some common rules.
    It is known that every country has their own characteristics but at  in the end, basic rules like concordance between gender and noun, punctuation, use of colon and semicolon... are exactly the same for all.
    These "community tutors" have terrible misspellings in these basic rules and I seriously think they're committing a fraudulent act. Making false promises to naive students who are looking for an improvement in their studies in order to earn some money.
    If you are studying Spanish, please, be sure your teacher is a qualified one unless you want to lose your money.
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    September 10, 2016
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    Airports In Panamá

    International Airport of Tocumen:
    From Panama, you can make direct connections to Madrid in Spain, Paris in France, Amsterdam in Holland, Lisbon in Portugal, and from November direct flight to Frankfurt in Germany.
    Recorded on average are about 360 flights during daily operations. It has 34 boarding bridges, 6 remote and moves 12 million passengers a year.

    Scarlett Martinez International Airport:
    The frequency of flights is are used by Canadian tourists more frequently, who make trips to Rio Hato seven days, usually from Friday to Friday.
    The Río Hato Airport, is located in one of the provinces with the most varied tourist potential, Cocle; where the tourist offer ranges from beaches, mountains and even hiking along trails.

    Enrique Malek International Airport:
    It is estimated that about 11 thousand passengers on domestic flights make use of this airport each month; while the migratory movement of people on international flights is around a thousand people each month. Panamanian citizens, Costa Rican, American and European nationalities; are those who have more pass through this international airport more often.


    Wasn't sure what "6 remote" was supposed to be. 
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    September 10, 2016
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    Hello community!! Just some words to introduce for introducing myself

    Just some words to introduce for introducing myself to the community. My name is Ander and I am a 34 years old man who wants the improve his English level. After many years studying it, I don't see any significant progress, so that's why I decided to join italki.
    My mother languages are Basque and Spanish , so I can help you in these languages.
    See you!!


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    September 10, 2016
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    Trabaho Ko Magtrabaho ako sa langis industry. Maraming lakbayin ako para ng trabaho ko. Lakbayin ako bawat mga tatlong buwan. Ngayong taon pumunta ako sa Azerbaijan, Oman, Angola, Australia. Para walong linggo bawat. Hilig ako ng Australia, Oman at Azerbaijan pero hindi Angola. May magandang mga hayop sa Australia. Mga hayop ay kawili-wili at may marami magandang mga tabing-dagat doon. Lumangoy ako bawat weekend. Umupo sa labas ako din at uminom serbesa. Oman ay masaya din. Ito ay Ramadan habang una linngo. Walang sinuman pwedeng uminom o kain habang umaga o hapon. Kung ito ay madilim lang. Sa gabi marami kami kumain at magsigarilyo ng Shisha. May magandang lungsod sa Azerbaijan. May marami mataas mga skyscraper at napakalinis doon. Lumakad kami sa pamamagitan ng dagat mula sa bahay namin sa lugar ng trabaho. Malamig na malamig doon kung Enero. My Job I work in the oil industry. My job has a lot of travel. I travel every 3 months or so. This year I have been to Australia, Oman, Angola, Azerbaijan. For 8 weeks each. I liked Australia, Oman and Azerbaijan but not Angola. Australia had great wildlife. The animals were interesting and there were beautiful beaches. I went swimming every weekend. I also sat outside and drank beer often. Oman was also fun. It was Ramadan during the first week. No one could eat or drink during the morning or afternoon. Only when it is dark. In the evenings we would eat a lot and smoke shisha. Azerbaijan has a very nice looking city. A lot of very high skyscrapers and it is very clean. We would walk along by the sea on the way to work every morning. It was quite cold there though as it was January.
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    Why I'm here. or Why am I here? 


    Well, I don't know how to start this. I never write or talk in english for communication. But I need to be better with my english because I think it is good to know others languages. One friend told me about Italki, this is the reason I'm here.

    I hope to learn a lot here.

    God bless.
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    September 10, 2016
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    Dream on

    When you were a kid, All adults surrounding you encouraged you to have dream. They said the bigger the better and your dream would come true if you really believed in it. So you started to dream to dream. You believed that you can be anyone or you can do anything you want. As you grew up and reached a certain point of your life, people would start to say that  "why you are still holding on to your childhood dream. Get real, live your life."  So you probably start killing your dreams one by one, inch by inch. You may feel as if you are allowed to dream only what you think you can achieve in a reasonable amount of time and space.
    You are slowly forgetting how to dream. Then suddenly someone asks you what your dream is then your answer would be you have none because everything you can come up with is all you are able to do. Those are not something you can call as dreams. It's just desires. But people would say that you're having a pitiful life. So Don't let anybody kill your dream as you're getting mature. Hide it in a stash until the time comes. Don't speak out before the people who cannot understand you. Then you will know when to let it out and that moment comes, go get wild with your dream.


    That was actually very fun to read and made me think about my own dreams!

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    September 10, 2016
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    What does it take for a planet to sustain life?

    I watched this incredible presentation on TEDTalks the other day about what a planet needs to be habitable. The presentation is hosted by Dave Brain, an assistant professor of astrophysics and planetary science at the University of Colorado. Dave is pretty good at telling a story and he knows how to captivate / capture an audience! So if you are interested in this kind of subject, I highly recommend you to watch it.

    First he explained that life on Earth requires basically three things: energy, food or nourishment and liquid water. Energy and nourishment are not that hard to find, since every planet in our solar system has countless energy sources and also all the six elements the Earth derives its nutrients from. However, the hardest thing to find is liquid water. There are planets that might even have more water than the Earth, but it is usually under ice layers, frozen or in the gaseous state.

    Now, if we think about our solar system and planets with liquid water on their surface, we have three: Mars, Venus and Earth. The things is that Mars is too cold and Venus too hot, but Earth is perfect. So the question is: could have Mars, for example, been livable at some point in the past? Dave showed an picture of Mars that shows riverbeds cut into its surface; riverbeds carved by flowing, liquid water. Nevertheless, given the atmosphere of Mars nowadays, this is no longer possible.

    So planets change and evolve. The answer for the atmosphere changing, according to scientists, is that it escaped to space because of the lack of a magnetic field on planets like Mars and Venus. Also, he explained how atmosphere escapes from these planets and a lot more. Anyway, I really enjoyed watching this interesting presentation and, in my opinion, we are closer to find another planet like Earth soon, it's just a matter of time.


    https://www.ted.com/talks/dave_brain_what_a_planet_needs_to_sustain_life?language=en
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    September 10, 2016
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    Ako si Mike. Hello! Ako si Mike. Taga-UK ako. Gusto kong mag-aral ng Tagalog kasi hilig ako ng Pilipinas. Walang katulad ito. Nakatira ama ko ng Pilipinas Pupunta ako doon kung December. Nagtatrabaho ako sa UK. Magsalitang Filipino parang sanggol!
    September 9, 2016
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