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I studied Spanish in high school, a very long time ago. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but had no real way to use it. I took a Spanish writing course my first year in college and found it to be very difficult and got a bit discouraged. At the end of my second year of college, I spent about 2 months in Cuernavaca, Mexico and studied at the Cuahuanauc Instituto. Fast forward about 25 years and not using Spanish. As a family, we spent 8-days in Mexico, then 3-weeks in Guatemala, then a total of 4-months in Ecuador and Peru and then lived in Spain for a year (2011-2012). We lived in Plasencia, Extemadura. I taught English at local public high schools and tried to set up as many language "intercambios" as I could. I would like to improve all aspects of my Spanish and get to a C1 level. I have a bit of work cut out for me, but I'd like to do that so that I could event assist or teach in classroom setting, or get involved in medical translation work. In Oregon, where have lived for many years, there is a large Latino population. There is a great need to work with them and many jobs require an applicant to be bilingual.
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Martina
Spanish
Jun 6, 2018
Una gran charla, ha sido un placer.
Luis Díez
Spanish
May 2, 2018
En la clase de hoy, Shari ha trabajado con textos creativos de nivel muy avanzado por su vocabulario y por el contenido con muy buen resultado y gran concentración. La redacción que había escrito para mantener el hábito de escritura ha tenido fallos mínimos y nada relevantes, estando correctos todos los tiempos verbales y la coherencia del texto.
Luis Díez
Spanish
Apr 18, 2018
En la clase de hoy, Shari ha trabajado todas las competencias. A pesar de la inestabilidad de la conexión durante la videoconferencia su habilidad para la interacción en español se ha mantenido en el alto nivel de siempre. A destacar la riqueza de léxico en su expresión oral y escrita con palabras como prestigioso o momentito.
Luis Díez
Spanish
Apr 3, 2018
Shari es una alumna muy constante y con gran motivación. Comprende rápidamente y tiene unas capacidades intuitivas y deductivas muy desarrolladas.
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    Report

    Dear College

    Here is my report

    This year in our touristic town have been openned a lot of news shopping facilities have been opened and some of them are  were specially were made for students. I will give some advice where the British students can spend their time and save up money.

    Catering facilities
    This town is recognized by (better: known for) its delicious food. The British students can find and taste a big variety of tipical typical dishes such as "Lomito satado" or "Papa rellena" which are the most representative from this place.

    Educational supplies
    Recently the librery library "Books and Histories" have been renoved  renovated . The students can buy very good books from with differents subjet subjects and its preces the prices will be accesible for them. Morevover, this library has the biggest collection of art of the country.

    Mementos Momentos
    Every Sunday in the center of the town there is a small festival where tourists people can buy some funny souveniers of from the city culture of the city and take photos in the real palace.

    Recommentations
    British students can enjoy visiting this town. There are several wonderful natural landscapes and museums with low prices whose prices are lower. Here they will discover a a new culture which can enrich their knoledge  knowledge.

    Faighfully. Faithfully
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    July 13, 2018
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    WHAT DOES IT REPRESENT? (LOS GALANES, CAMPECHANO, LOBILLO)

    LOS GALANES is our flagship brand, under which our best wines are bottled.
    This brand refers to the way that friends are called in this town. It denotes trust and friendship. A GALÁN is an elegant and close person, sure of himself, someone who you have fun with, you laugh, you celebrate and who supports you in difficult moments.
    Someone to enjoy life with.
    LOS GALANES wines represent the so close and fun way that we express ourselves in this town, but above all, they represent this type of friend, the one you like so much to show off.

    It is said that someone is a CAMPECHANO when he is relaxed, cordial and simple, and does not like formalities and ceremonies. Like our wines CAMPECHANO brand, elegant, but humble.
    They are wines with a meticulous preparation from the vineyard to the glass, but when you taste them, they are simple, natural and easy to enjoy.
    They look like they're taken out of the squeeze of a grape with your own hands.  Better: They look like the grapes have been squeezed with your own bare hands.

    Lobillo is the only one of our range of products that does not belong to a Denomination of Origin, however, it belongs to the PGI Vino de la Tierra de Castilla.
    Our Lobillo wines owe their name to a well-known hamlet of the town, called Lobillo, from where the raw material with which these wines are made comes from.
    Traditionally, this village was used by grape harvesters during the grape harvest period. They rested there and did not have to return to the town since there were no cars.


    *This is very interesting and extremely well written.  I enjoyed reading it!  Just a few, very minor corrections/suggestions.

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    July 13, 2018
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    Humans and bees: a honey-moon

    Even though, there are a lot of miths (myths) and legends about bees which, sometimes, make us to be afraid of these insects, our relationship with them is completely necessary. This is due to the fact that pollination of flowers have being is made by these little and amazing insects. (this sentence is grammatically correct, but I think it would be better to put it in the active voice to give emphasis on the critical importance of bees in pollinating flowers)
    Therefore, we must be careful if we don’t want to put the life of bees in danger the life of bees. We must protect hives, use less pesticides in order not to interfere with the bees’ navigation system, and having have less farms with just one crop. All of these solutions have to be put in action quickly because our own survival is linked with bees. The more healthy the  hives, the better for humans.
    Consequently, we should know more about these amazing friends: how colonies are formed, which  the relationship is between the queen and drones and workers and how a hive is functions inside.
    Buy your own hive
    This would be a great method to encourage yourself and other people to realise that bees are very useful animals. You just need a veil in order to protect yourself of from their painful sting and the smoke, to they think the need to evacuate the hive. That’s all.
    This would be the beginning of a great friendship.


    *Very interesting essay and well written.  I completely agree with you about the myths and misconceptions people have about honey bees.

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    July 13, 2018
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    La importancia de viajar – con intención Me encanta viajar. Desde el tiempo que era niña, siempre he estado encantada con el conocimiento de otros países y sus culturas. Soy de los Estados Unidos, un país enorme y aislado de mucho del mundo. Es fácil formar opiniones y creencias sobre una cultura desde una perspectiva distante. Desafortunadamente lo que pasa con frecuencia es la formación de las ideas equivocadas sobre las otras culturas. En los Estados Unidos no es tan común viajar afuera de los Estados Unidos. Es un país grande, con regiones distintas y atracciones como Disneyland/Disneyworld, Las Vegas, y parques nacionales. ¿Entonces, por qué es necesario que vayamos a otros países? Sí, es posible leer sobre cualquier cultura, país, región de que tienes interés. Hoy, gracias al internet, podemos viajar virtualmente y conocer a otra gente con medios de comunicación social. Es verdad, pero yo discutiría que es casi imposible entender y conocer a otros y sus culturas, normas y perspectivas sin ir a sus países, ciudades o pueblos. Un ejemplo, hace más de 10 años que mi familia fue a Guatemala. Fuimos a Antigua, Quetzaltenango y Semuc Champey. Nuestra hija mayor tenía 12 años y la menor tenía 6 años. Antes de irnos, no sabía casa nada sobre Guatemala y en realidad pensaba que todo el país era peligroso. Sí, existían peligros en Guatemala. Pero hay riesgos en todo el mundo, incluso los Estados Unidos. La realidad era que nos encontró un país hermoso, llenaba de una cultura complicada y preciosa. La gente era tan abierta y aprendimos algo muy importante. Lo más importante es tener un corazón y una mente abierto. Cada vez que viajar, trato de hacer dos cosas. Uno es aprender sobre la cultura, las costumbres y el idioma. La otra es presentarme como si fuera una embajadora de los Estados Unidos.
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    ¿Qué significa para ser americano? Cuando era niña, nunca se sentía cómoda con la identidad de ser una americana. No sé porque, pero creo que uno de los factores era que mis padres no eran americanos típicos. No eran consumadores; de hecho, solamente compraban lo que necesitábamos. Siempre teníamos cosas de segunda mano. También mi padre siempre arreglaba todo y nunca tiraba nada hasta absolutamente necesario. Por fin, mis padres tenían reverencia para todas las criaturas pequeñas y grandes. Entonces crecí con un conjunto de valores diferentes que la mayoría de los americanos. De proteger la Tierra, de guardar y usar las cosas hasta que no podía, de no vivir en el mundo de materialismo sino un mundo de personas y experiencias. Aunque estoy orgullosa de mi identidad, a menudo me pregunto ¿Qué significa para ser americano? ¿Hay que ser consumador, comprar y tirar, tener un arma o creer que “Somos lo mejor”? Esta pregunta me tormenta mucho hoy en día porque estamos viviendo en un mundo lleno de cambios y amenazas. Con cada día me siento más y más agobiada. Tengo vergüenza por lo que está sucediendo en el gobierno. Estamos viviendo en tiempos difíciles y la realidad es que a menudo tengo ganas de salir de los Estados Unidos y vivir en un país donde existe más valor para la humanidad.
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    Reading for retelling

    Are there mistakes? ( ゚д゚)

    The story is about a men man called Greg who was received as a present a shinny new camera. He was exited, so he decided to practice his photography skills in the park and the camera worked like a dream. After that he returned home and realised that he didn't have the camera, so as quick as a flash he went to the park to look for it, but it wasn't there.
    A few weeks (later ???) while he read the newspaper, he saw his photos and (his photos have come out) so he turned as white as a sheet. And then Greg discovered that someone have been taken took his camera and have handed it in to the newpaper office where Greg got back his camera with the phone number of the person who found it. So he called her and when they met , they ended up (get like house of fire). Finally Greg noticed that she was a famous photographer and she wanted to help him with his career.

    *I'm unclear/not understanding the phrases in red.  Nice story.


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    July 12, 2018
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    THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM TODAY. IS IT NECCESSARY TO CHANGE IT

    In the recent times, our society has been changing deeply, however, we have not transformed the curriculum of our school in the same way. This is the answer that we need to look for if we want to face to the future properly in order to achieve a better society. In this essay we will discuss what changes must be done and why.
    First and foremost, the traditional subjects are not enough to respond to the needs of our present society. In this way ("In this way" is not incorrect, but isn't necessary.  You can start the sentence with "New subjects...), new subjects must be introduced in our school due to the fact that new knowledges have has appeared in several fields of science and technology, such as internet, robots, etc.
    Secondly, although, these new subjects are completely necessary ,we should not forget other areas of kwoledge knowledge which should make our children should be better people. The human side of our students has to be, at least, as important as the economical point of view of the new subjects, which tend to focus in technological issues.
    In conclusion, wven even though, the curricula of our schools must be revised in order to add new subjects which better mirror better the changes that have happened in our society, we do (rather than use the word "do", use of the words "should" or "must" may be better) not forget that some of the old subjects develop the human side of our students too.


    *This is very well written and a great topic

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    July 12, 2018
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