Hello, I'm a native English speaker, and my Spanish is C1. I have been looking for a Spanish conversation partner.

Today's topic is my favorite food. I like cheese. It's a very chewy cheese. In Japan there are cheese desserts that are sweet and have different flavors. I really enjoy Maccha's vivid green color and taste. Berries include blueberry, strawberry, cranberry, cassis and so on. Strawberry is too sour for me to eat in a dessert.

I´ve traveled alone a lot and generally enjoy it. These days though, if you are a young woman you need to be cautious, depending on the country/city. I also think that traveling alone is easier for women when you do NOT have to budget that much. I would not stay at a hostel as a young woman alone. A hotel would be fine. I also would not stay in an AIRBnB as a woman alone. I don´t drive well so I´ve always taken public transportation when traveling. 

Essay #226 "Are Sportsmen Are Overrated?" 31.08.18

Sports plays a very important role in our culture and in our lives. It has the power to unite people and cross the borders between them. However, the enormous difference in wages between ordinary people and professional athletes makes absolutely no sense. In my opinion, despite the fact that sports are highly popular and comprise a huge part of our lives, such huge salaries for athletes are just unfair.

First of all, despite the fact that many sports include very important and complicated activities like running, jumping and throwing or kicking stuff, and at a first glance they could be deemed to be as important as the work of an engineer or a doctor, they actually are not. Also in most cases, there are a lot of talented athletes who have no chance to make it in a professional sport. Despite the fact that most athletes are clearly overpaid, in most cases they are not even the best in their field.

However, this discrepancy is created by our culture, as most sports events attract a great number of viewers, and organizers of these events can earn huge sums, and, therefore, all participants can benefit from this. So, athletes are paid so much not because they set up such salaries for themselves, but because our culture creates a situation in which people agree to pay them such wages. If teaching or solving mathematical problems were huge public events, maybe we would make a great leap in our progress.

Also, this sphere, as it allows people to make money, distracts many sponsors from other fields. The money which can be spent on the development of medicine, science or on promotion of some useful products is spent on plain entertainment. That is why there is a common situation in which some science laboratories cannot get money for their research, and at the same time young athletes are able to lead luxurious lives.

To conclude, despite the fact that sports are quite important for our lives, we should look at this from another angle. People spend enormous amounts of money on pure entertainment, rather then apply it to spheres which really need it, such as medicine and science. Underrating of these spheres creates the situation in which people may have no access to free medical help or education, but everyone has a large TV which will entertain them any time they want.

Essay #226 "Are Sportsmen Are Overrated?" 31.08.18

Sports plays (play) a very important role in our culture and in our lives, it has(Sports have the...) power to unite people and break (break down the obstacles/cross the borders) the borders between them. However, the enormous difference in wages between ordinary people and professional athletes makes absolutely no sense. In my opinion, despite the fact that sports (are) highly popular and comprise a huge part of our lives, such huge salaries for sportsmen just unfair.(for athletes are just unfair). 

First of all, despite the fact that many sports include very important and complicated activities like running, jumping and throwing or kicking stuff, and at a first glance they could be deemed to be as important as work of an engineer or a doctor, they actually are not. Also in most cases, there are a lot of talented athletes who have no chance to make it in a professional sport. Despite the fact that most athletes are clearly overpaid, in most cases they are not even the best in their field.

However, this discrepancy is created by our culture, as most sports events attract the greatest  number of viewers. In addition, organizers of these events can earn huge sums, and, therefore, all participants can benefit from this. So, athletes are paid so much not because they set up such salaries for themselves, but because our culture creates a situation in which people agree to pay them such wages. If teaching or solving mathematical problems were huge public events, maybe we would make a great leap in our progress.

Also, this sphere, as it allows people to make money, distracts many sponsors from other fields. The money which can be spent on the development of medicine, science or on promotion of some useful products isspent on plain entertainment. That is why there is a common situation in which some science laboratories  cannot get money for their research, and at the same time young athletes  are able to lead luxurious lives.

To conclude, despite the fact that sports are quite important for our lives, we should look at this from another angle. People spend enormous amounts of money on pure entertainment, rather then apply it to spheres which are really need it, such as medicine and science. Underrating of these spheres creates the situation in which people may have no access to free medical help or education, but everyone has a large TV which will entertain them any time they want.

Gracias por el artículo. Iba a comentar que no se usaba "vos" en México. Otra persona ya lo comentó. Además quiero responder al comentario deuna persona, María, creo, que dijo que no se enseñaba "vosotros" en los EUA. Tal vez en ciertas partes del país es así, pero en mi escuela secundaria y también en la universidad, se enseñaba "vosotos." El problema es que no hay tantos profesores y maestros en los EUA que utilicen "vosotros" cuando hablan. Entonces, se puede enseñarlo pero los estudiantes no van a escucharlo en la mayoría de los casos. Claro, hay profesores en la universidad en los EUA, especialmente que son españoles entonces usan "vosotros" con sus estudiantes.