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Hola! Estoy buscando con un amigo que hablE espanol y E ingles. Yo (YOU CAN SAY "YO" AS IT IS GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT BUT IT SOUNDS KINDA WEIRD FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS). Soy de los Estados Unidos y he estado estudiado espanol DURANTE un año. Voy a universidad en dos meses! EnvÍame un mensaje!
0 votedAugust 11, 20132Restaurar mi apartamento
Este fin de semana he pintado una habitación en mi apartamento. LA HE pintado blanca. EL prÓximO fin de semana, voy a pintar la cocina. Creo que voy a pintarLA DE azul. Es un color frÍo, y para una cocina es bueno. La sala de estar necesito tambiÉn PINTARLA, tal vez de blanco.
En Noruega, es normalemente gastar muchO dinero EN restaurar LA casa. En España (yo creo), solo los ricos como YA QUE es muy importante tener una casa muy bonita. Los españoles CON UN NIVEL ECONÓMICO medios GASTAN SU DINERO son mas ocupados salir en restaurantes (para comer) EN VEZ de gastar EL dineros en su casa.
Ahora estoy cansado. Es difícil renovar.0 votedAugust 11, 20131- The American dream An American businessman was standing at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish. "How long did it take you to catch them?" the American asked. "Only a little while" the Mexican replied. "Why don't you stay out longer and catch more fish?" the American then asked. "I have enough to support my family's immediate needs" the Mexican said. "But" the American then asked, "What do you do with the rest of your time?" The Mexican fisherman said: "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life, senor." The American scoffed: "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds you could buy a bigger boat and, with the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman, you would sell directly to the consumers, eventually opening your own can factory. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise." The Mexican fisherman asked: "But senor, how long will this all take?" To which the American replied: "15-20 years." "But what then, senor?" The American laughed and said: "That's the best part. When the time is right, you would announce an IPO - an Initial Public Offering - and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich. You would make millions." "Millions, senor? Then what?" The American said slowly: "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos..."January 15, 201360
- Mobile phones THE MOBILE PHONE HAS STEEPLY CHANGED OUR LIVES During the last years, the use of the mobile phones has increased until the point that nowadays almost everyone has one. There are a lot of advantages but on the other hand you can also find some disadvantages that are not easy to solve. For example, the use of the mobile phones all day makes you start living an antisocial life due to the fact that you don’t speak to people in different places where you used to. Instead of that, you just chat on the phone with them and the main problem is that people don´t realise that this is affecting their lives. Furthermore, in order to add another disadvantage, there is problem that should concern to parents around the world which is the use of the mobile phones by their children between the ages of 8 to 13. They are just children once and they need to have fun playing outside with other children. However, the use of them by young people could also be really useful as it helps parents to be in touch with their children all day. In other words, make them live in a safer world. Leaving aside the use of mobiles phones by children, thanks to this device the fact of communication with people from different countries has become really easy. But it is not necessary to think about the effect to communicate with people from other countries, just thinking about how this invention has change our everyday life you can realise that you couldn´t live without it anymore. Therefore, for these and other reasons this device is something as important as the keys, the wallet or your money when you go outside to anywhere.January 15, 201310
Si no eres hablante nativo....
¿Qué les parece la idea de criar niños que sepan más de una lengua? Vivo en EEUU y la lengua que más se usa es el inglés; lo bueno es que hay una presencia muy fuerte del castellano en los estados que quedan cerca de México. El inglés es la única lengua que domino pero me siento muy a gusto con el español, si es verdad que cometo errores de vez en cuando y obviamente no sueno como nativo. Estaba pensando en enseñarles español a mis futuros hijos y tener una niñera que hable chino mandarín con ellos. Y si a mi futura espoSa y yo a mi no nos conviene tener una niñera china en la casa, íba a mandarlos a una escuela de inmersión donde las clases se imparten en chino.
Pero acabo de leer un artículo escrito por una linguista (último párrafo del primer artículo) que dice que las personas que no son hablantes nativos no deberían enseñar su segunda lengua en casa. ¿Qué opinan? ¿Las personas que no tienen una pronunciación perfecta no pueden enseñar la lengua que han estudiado a sus hijos?
Si me caso con una latina este problema se resolverá muy fácilmente: hablaré inglés y mi esposa hablará castellano. :) Y después podemos mandarlos a una escuela de inmersión para que sepan chino. Pero en este caso no podría hablar castellano, que es uno de mis pasatiempos preferidos. :(
"Teaching a child a language that is not the mother-tongue of either parent is usually not a good idea. Unless the parents are completely bilingual themselves, that is, they speak two languages as native languages, then the sounds that are produced for the child to imitate will be tinged with a strong 'foreign accent'. Similarly, unless the parent speaks the non-native language exceptionally well, then the child will learn the mistakes that parent makes in that language."
http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/biling.cfm0 votedJanuary 11, 20130- the end of the happy prince! :) Because of that, the poor children were no longer as poor as they were before. When everybody saw the statue, it was grey so no one wanted it. It was not an example for others to follow anymore due to the statue was no longer beautiful so it was no longer useful. They melt the statue to build another one but this time using the mayor of the city and not the happy prince. The heart of the statue couldn’t be melt so they throw it to the snow together with the swallow that died because of the cold weather.January 4, 201310
- a whole of/ a string of / a series of I would like to know if all these collective nouns have the same or similar meaning. 1) The journalist raised A WHOLE HOST OF questions about... 2) He was not prepared to listen A STRING OF wild questions.... 3) He just gave A SERIES OF short answers.... thanks! :)January 1, 201330
