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Estudio la veterinaria en la Universidad de Nottingham, y estoy en el cuarto curso actualmente. Me gustan los animales, las ciencias, la naturaleza, leer, los videojuegos, los idiomas y aprender de culturas diferentes. Espero viajar mucho y quizas hasta trabajar al extranjero en el futuro, y estos son unas de las razones que quiero mejorar mi Español.
I'm studying veterinary medicine at the University of Nottingham and I'm in my 4th year. I love langauges and learning about different cultures, and I hope to travel in the future.
I'm also looking to learn Welsh, so if someone would like to practise this with please do! I'm still very much a beginner though.
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extreme sports
Many people like extreme kinds of sport sports such as a climbing, rally, sky-jumping, or high diving. On the one hand extreme kinds of sport sports bring people joy, adrenaline and brightness in their life. On the other hand, such kinds of sport sports are dangerous. Although Even though special staff worry look out for about people's safety, accidents happen.
I don't like extreme kinds of sport sports. I have never tried tryed it and nor wanted it to. Sometimes I watch high diving competitions on TV. It's really interesting and beautiful to watch how people jump from 27 or 20 metres and do somersaults in the air. I think extreme sports help people to buck up. They can feel pain get hurt, break arms or legs and do extreme things again. People who love extreme sports often behave as like potheads. As a result I'm not a lover of adventure sports, but I don't mess people do what they want.I don't understand what you mean by the red bits, otherwise it's good! :)
0 votedApril 11, 20180Reading in English
Since I am training to take an English exam, I want to broaden my vocabulary and my reading skills. Reading novels is obviously one of the best ways to do that. I must confess that sometimes, when I come across an "adult" novel in English, I have to look up so many words up that I finally give up and stop reading the book. That is the reason why I thought that children books, as well as young adults novels, might be a good choice. These days I have been reading Five on a Treasure Island, one of the famous Enid Blyton's stories.
I bought a pack with the three first novels of the series for my Kindle device. I usually prefer to read on paper, but I have to admit that when it comes to reading in a foreign language, e-readers such as Kindle are really useful. With them, you can look for the meaning of a word just by clicking on it the word. That is extremely convenient when you are reading a book in a language other than yours.
Anyway, you need to pay attention to the fact that, when it comes to reading in a language that you are learning and you don't command yet, (not sure what this bit in bold is trying to say, sorry!) it is not adviseable advisable to look up every single word whose meaning you don't know. Whether When you do that, you are most likely to get tired of reading, because you can't keep the flow of the story and you feel that you are not moving forward or at least that you do it at a very slow pace. If you look every word up, most of the time s you are going to quit and drop the book.
The best thing to do, when you want to read a book in a foreign language, is not to look the words up and try to understand the meaning of the sentences, even if there is are one or two words whose exact meanings you are unaware of. Most of the times, you can get a rough sense of those words from the context, so that you can keep reading without losing the gist. If you come across a word you don't know but you can get from the context that it is some kind of tool, (not sure what is meant by this either) is it really so important to know the exact equivalent in your language? By carrying reading, you keep the flow going and you still get familiar with lots of words and collocations that maybe you knew but you couldn't use properly. So even though you don't look up every unknown word, you are still strengthening your vocabulary.
Obviously, sometimes it is absolutely necessary to know the meaning of a word in order to properly understand the passage. Also, usually you see that some words are coming back again and again. That means that these are important words and you should go and look them up.Very few mistakes and read really nicely!! There were a few bits though that I didn't quite understand, as highlighted above. I actually learned a thing or two about reading in a foreign language, and I am going to use these tips and try to read a Spanish book - so thank you for that!
0 votedOctober 13, 20171concert!
I heard my favorite musician have is having a concert next year. I really wanted to go and so I tried to apply for launch initial sales of tickets, but I couldn't get it. I still don't didn't want to give up so I tried to do again. Thankfully, I got it!! I showed the email about his these tickets to my co-worker because I can't couldn't believe it. She said you got tickets! Wow I'm so excited!0 votedOctober 13, 20171Arguing.
I think that arguing with someone does not help,there are many bad aspects of arguing with someone.
First, we get angry, our faces get red, our eyes get horrible and we start yelling. We start to say bad things, and we can hurt the other person, because sometimes being angry convert us in turns us into bad people.
Arguing is an unsless useless thing, I much prefer talking quietly and sharing our thoughts politely, without yelling, because the one who is yelling does not really believe in what he's saying. (Or I would probably say "he who yells doesn't really believe what he says" - this sounds more like what you'd read in a book, but the version above is perfectly correct too!)0 votedOctober 13, 20170The 12th October in Zaragoza
During this week, from last Saturday to next Sunday, we are in have our patron saint's day celebrations in my city. The patron is Our Lady of the Pillar and the main day is October, the 12th.
The central main act of this the day is the flower offering. During For more than ten hours, people who lives in the city and people who come from other cities or villages of Spain (or even from abroad) give a bouquet of flowers as a present to The Lady. An image of the Virgin is in the square of the Basilica and, as hours go by, all the flowers define create a big cape around her. It's very beautiful. The one requirement to give your flowers to the Virgin is that you have to wear your typical regional costume and if you are from abroad you have to wear your typical country one one that is typical of your country.
On the other days of the week we can enjoy of musical concerts: pop, classical and regional ones; we have street markets in which you can buy craftwork, sweets and costume jewellery. There are is a big funfair in on which both children and young people can have fun. in the attractions, There are also street artists such as magicians, jugglers and puppets for children...
All of you will be welcomed if you want to come here!!Hope this helped! :)
0 votedOctober 11, 20171Bilingual friend
Hello, my name is Cecília and I've always been the only bilingual friend in the group. All my friends in school only knew portuguese and when it was time for english classes I was the center (centre in British English, depends what you prefer!) of attention (centre of the world doesn't sound too natural for me, but does make perfect since still.). When the test was in pairs, everyone wanted to sit with me (even those who had never looked me in the eyes); when the teacher started speaking in english, I was always her translator because nobody understood english.
A bad habit that I've developed is being upset when corrected, just because when I spell something wrong my friends never noticed and never corrected me. I just need to sound "american" or "british" to pretend I'm speaking english.
When I first attended private english classes, my classmates had been students in that school since childhood; but I just did a placement test and "skipped over" (to me skipped sounds more natural, but I guess jumped does work too!) lots of steps, attending just 6 months. My grades in public school were always perfect (I'm not kidding, I always got everything right and that's because it was easy and not because I'm proficient in this language). But in the private english classes, I've got some "average" grades, since the difficulty was higher.
When I first got corrected by a teacher on iTalki, I was like "did I say something wrong? How? I've never said anything wrong in english!". Obviously, she was way more experienced than me and she lived abroad; I'm just not used to being corrected and she did nothing wrong, my teacher was only doing her job.
Now this bad habit of mine is going away little by little. I'm not upset anymore when corrected. Now I think: I've always been the bilingual friend, but at this moment I've discovered that I don't really know english and I'm not "bilingual" like I thought I was.
I hope to one day become fluent and live abroad, to be proud of myself and be able to say to everyone that I'm finally and officially bilingual.0 votedOctober 11, 20170
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