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Interesting question . I mean apart from the number of words which are different (rubbish/trash; lift/elevator ; bill /check; note /bill) etc etc there's the added fun of how words are written the same way but pronounced moving the stressed sound e.g. address , detail , report , to name just three. Then we have the regional accents to cope with ...Scottish must be so hard for the untrained ear although Robbie Williams did great sketches to help the Americans get used to Billy Connolly when he first settled !
Two great nations divided by the same language perhaps ! Thanks to urban dictionaries we get by but shiver me timbers it ain't easy !
0 votedMarch 24, 20170A sad story
I would like to tell you a sad story about my aunt's carer's son. She is from Colombia and had 4 children, of whom 2 are dead.
One of them was killed while he was trying to help his friend in a fight. But the other was an arms smuggler.
The police had been on his trail for 2 years time before he was caught driving a truckload of guns for unruly gangs. He was accused of smuggling and found guilty. The judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison. After leaving prison he wanted to rebuild his life but he owed too much money so he had to take a new job where he earned money in a fast way though riskier and illegal, so he became a drug dealer.
One day, he was arrested and taken to the police station to be questioned but there was no proof so he was acquitted. His mother wanted him to get out of the country but he didn't. Unfortunately, a few months after that, a witness told the police that he had been selling drugs to minors and she had taken some photos of that. He was charged with selling drugs and taken to prison again. But he was killed there.
Finally, It became known that the witness was a mother who had lost her younger son because of drugs.Truly a sad story ...I'd pay here a decent salary if I were you and check what's in the nocilla sandwiches she prepares for your kids !!
0 votedMarch 23, 20172Para mi España es como muchos países dentro del mismo país . Sus gentes hablan distintos idiomas o dialectos , la topografía cambia según la zona , el clima varía muchísimo y esto influye en los productos que se cultiva en cada región y obviamente esto se refleja en los platos típicos . Para mi me encantan los cocidos y lo mejor de todos debe ser el cocido montañés. Quien no ha probado un cocido montañés o los sobaos de Selaya las corbatas de Unquera o los hojaldres de Torrelavega no ha vivido ! Viva la España verde! Merece la pena conocer el norte de la península que no es tan visitado por los foráneos extranjeros.
0 votedMarch 23, 20170Officially dead
Colin and Julie worked as computer software teachers.
One day, Colin had to travel to another city nearby to work. As his routine was so dull he decided to go to a pub to hang out. There, a woman called Linda was stunned when she noticed/realised that Colin and her husband, John, were complete lookalikes. A few days later they met in the same pub, and she told him her plan to rob a jewellery store with her husband. Linda and John needed Colin in order to carry out her plan successfully. John worked as a security guard in that jewellery store so he knew the password. What she wanted was that while her husband was robbing the jewellery store, Colin would pose as her husband thereby giving John the perfect alibi. Colin agreed with them because he was in financial difficulties and hence needed money but he didn't want his wife Julie to learn about their plan. But everything didn't go as Linda and her husband had planned and they didn't get away with it.0 votedMarch 22, 20171First day the class for preparation the Opposition nursing assistant.
The first day was the presentation and the explanation of both the director and the coordinator where they explained to us how to prepare for the nursing assistant entrance exam . Everything was clear except one sentence I didn't agree with , "why for a state entrance exam what counts most is the time worked?" For me it's the time worked, courses, specialised courses and if you have a nursing based degree even better.When they finished we were given the class and our teacher explained things very well. The topics we were given were very broad on power point from 85 to 105 pages which is ridiculous as it does not give time you time to see it , but she told us the most important thing is that we have to study. I focus on summarising based on the most important things she told us and above all doing a lot of tests since the test is a multiple choice test. Now we are just waiting for the registration date to take the exam.
Mi primer dia de clase para preparar la oposición de auxiliar de enfermería.
El primer día fue la presentación y la explicación de la directora y el coordinador donde nos explicó cómo prepararnos para las oposiciones de auxiliar de enfermería. Todo me quedo claro excepto una frase que dijeron que no estoy de acuerdo, porque para una oposición lo que cuenta más es el tiempo trabajado, cursos, masters y si tienes carrera de rama sanitaria todavía más. Cuando acabaron dimos clase, nuestra profesora se explicaba muy bien, los temas que damos son muy amplios son power point de 85 a 105 de páginas es una barbaridad todo no da tiempo verlo,pero ella nos dice lo más importante que nos tenemos que estudiar, yo me enfoco a bases de resúmenes sobre lo más importante que nos ha dicho ella y sobretodo hacer mucho test ya que el examen es tipo test. Ahora solo estamos a la espera de la fecha de inscripción para realizar el examen.0 votedDecember 11, 20160- I am at your entire disposal to help you with your English. He showed no disposition to help me with my English. He lost his job so he sued the company for what he felt was unfair dismissal. The war in Syria has caused the displacement of thousands of civilians to neighbouring countries. The foremost problem in the world is unemployment. Uppermost in my mind is the worrying idea that our lives depend on irresponsible politicians. The predominant religion in the world is.... He acted in a way surpassing all credibility. The problem for many in poor countries is accessible education. The plan would only be feasible if we could raise enough capital to carry it out effectively. The house is only reachable when the snow melts. Some items are only obtainable for the extremely wealthy.0 votedApril 4, 20150
A Sad Story
A few days ago,I was wandering in a field .Then I saw a waxberry tree standing there.I was very happy. I stopped and looked at it for a while.It reminded me of the memory of my childhood.
My grandpa loved to tell us stories during meals when I was a kid.There is a story about waxberry tree.
Once upon a time,there was a family who lived in a village.Because the parents had passed away early there were only two people in this family—the elder brother and the younger sister.They cared for and leaned on each other.Later,the elder brother got married (to a girl).The three of them lived together and the younger sister and her sister-in-law were close.The younger sister was a beautiful, deft girl who was good at embroidering flowers.She had embroidered all kinds of flowers in the world except waxberry flowers because she had never seen them in blossom.She heard that waxberry flowers blossomed late at night in winter.She made up her mind to take a look one night in winter.She climbed up a mountain and waited for the flowers to blossom.But she didn’t come back home again.
The next day,when the elder brother’s wife found that the girl hadn’t come back ,she climbed up the mouniñutain to look for her.But something unfortunate happened,she had been eaten by a tiger.After dying ,her soul changed into a cuckoo which was still looking for the girl on the mountain years after years.Grandpa told me that was why cuckoos always show up in waxberry flowers blossoming season with the sound “cu-koo cu-koo(ps:this sounds like how we call the husband’s sister in Chinese-姑姑)”
When I was a kid,everytime I heard this story I would imagine how beautiful waxberry flowers must be!So beautiful that people lost their lives for them!So beautiful that they meanly only blossomed late at night !So beautiful that they are so mysterious!Are there fairies dancing around when they are blossoming?And the cuckoo,which was the part I was concerned most about in this story.I was wondering would it find the girl?Would it finally stop searching one day?In my image,I supposed that cuckoo’s voice must sound sad.
Funnily,later when I grew up I found out that waxberry flowers are not beautiful and they do not blossom late at night in winter. I don’t know where my grandpa got this story from.He told us a lot of stories.Some are sad,some are happy,some are scary.They were happy times in my childhood that I miss so much.0 votedFebruary 9, 20150
