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The future

Hello my friends,

Today I want to write about the future. Nowadays I am a student of Economy and Business Management. I am very interested in Marketing, Internet and Social Network. I don't know where I will work but I would like working in a company related to these fields.

My questions now are: Should I look for a job now? Should I study other things? Should I be more prepared to start working?
What do you think about?

Where do you work? Do you like your job? Are you happy with your life? Have you gotten your dreams?

I think you will be able to get your dreams, if you fight for them. 

Will I work in Marketing or in something related to my interests? I don't know, but I hope it.

 

pd: I am looking somebody interested in exchange english per spanish by Skype. If you want speak with me, you can add me with my Skype name: dxnmusic

Thank you for your corrections! 

Homework

Hello my friends,

I have to write a letter about this report:

Today Eugenia Marcos Fernandez is recovering after spending the night on an Andalusian hillside with two injured schoolchildren. The 38-year-old business woman was with her husband on a trip to Spain. "While he worked I went walking in the hills," she explained from her hospital bed. On a lonely hillside she found two ten-year-old boys who had fallen into a large hole in the ground. "They had hurt themselves quite badly and couldn't climb out," said Eugenia. "When I tried to help them, I fell in as well, and then none of us could get out!" They were trapped for 15 hours. "I knew we'd be rescued, but the kids were really frightened," she said.

I have to write the woman because she was a student of my school (it's not real, it is a homework). This is my letter:

Dear Eugenia,

My name is Rafa. I have read the report that appears in the magazine. Your story is admirable. I think that you are very brave.

I write you because I am a student of the same school where you studied.

When I have read the text, I have thought that probably you were very frightened. 15 hours in a hole should be a bad experience. So, you have to be very happy because you are out, and the children are alive thanks to you.

How the rescue was? Were there firemen, helicopters, ambulances, etc? How many? I am sorry for my questions, but I am very interested in your story.

Could you speak me about you school years? Is this school a good school? How the professors are? I hope that you can talk me about some interesting story.

Thanks you for your time. I hope that you leave the hospital soon.

Regards,

Could you correct my letter? Thanks you! :)

The weather

Hello,

Today is a grey day in Warsaw. There are clouds in the sky but it isn't raining.

I am waiting the Spring. I want to see the sun in the sky. I want to go out and walking by the bigger parks that this city have.

But I suppose that I have to wait that moment.

What will you do when the Spring arrive? Maybe, Do you take holidays?

Is the Spring important for you?

If you want to answer my questions, I will be happy. If you don't want, I will continue waiting the Spring.

Hello!

Hello,

My name is Rafa. I am from Spain but I am living in Warsaw this year. I am studying here with an Erasmus grant.

In Spain, I study Economics and Business Management. I am interested in Marketing. In the future, I would like to work in this field.

I need to improve my English so I am looking people who wants to exchange English per Spanish.

I will try to write a post each two days and If you want to correct me, I will be very grateful.

I hope to help many people to learn Spanish.

Regards!

One More Mixxer Language Exchange. Same Date. Different Time

Hi. I'm Nia@ITESO. I am from the USA and I teach English at a university in Guadalajara Mexico (-6 GMT). My students range in age from 18 to 24 or so, with English levels ranging from basic to intermediate. We are seeking native English speakers who are both college students and students of Spanish. If you're a native English speaker who would like to practice Spanish via Skype and...

 

http://www.language-exchanges.org/content/programa-certificado-de-ingl%C3%A9s-4da-iteso-universidad-jesuita-de-guadalajara-englishspanish-e

Follow that link for all the details.

The link takes you takes DIRECTLY to the official event page for all salient information and SIGN-UP!!

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Step Right Up!

Hi. I'm Nia@ITESO. I am from the USA and I teach English at a university in Guadalajara Mexico (-6 GMT). My students range in age from 18 to 24 or so, with English levels ranging from basic to intermediate. We are seeking native English speakers who are both college students and students of Spanish. If you're a native English speaker who would like to practice Spanish via Skype and...

http://www.language-exchanges.org/content/programa-certificdo-de-ingles-...

Follow that link for all the details.

The link takes you takes DIRECTLY to the official event page for all salient information and SIGN-UP!!

Valentine's Day Invitation -- Meet and Greet in Spanish then English

 

This week I will introduce this site to two of my classes. Join us, won't you?
 
A group of 17 and a group of 21 will be signing up and looking for language exchange partners. 2:00pm (-6GMT) AND 5:00PM (-6GMT). Most of my students range in age from 18 to 23. If you are also a university student and are fluent in English and are studying Spanish, we would love to speak with you.
 
Individually, we will be signing up on February 14 (Tuesday), joining http://www.language-exchanges.org/content/niaiteso-spanish-english then checking the right hand margin looking for people online who are native speakers of English and students of Spanish.
 
We will all be on laptops and on Skype. Wouldn't it be cool if everbodyin both of my  classes could find his or her own language exchange partner.
 
Make it happen! This is our school's website. http://portal.iteso.mx/portal/page/portal/ITESO
 
I bet you have lots of questions and lots to share...in English and in Spanish, naturally.
 
 
 

Mi primera tentativa en un blog de la lengua española. “My first attempt at a spanish blog.”

 

 

Quisiera encontrar a gente de habla hispana.  Quiero leer literatura española. Me gusta tocar guitarra.  Mi guitarra es mi posesión estimada.  Quisiera cantar canciones españolas.  Esto es una entrada corta de la escritura. Espero utilizer estos blogs para ver cuánto crezco.

 

¡Corríjame por favor!

 

 

 

 

I hope to use these blogs to see how much I grow. I have used the internet to decipher every sentence of this blog, so a lot of it may be wildly inaccurate. Please correct me!  

 

 

 

Introduction

I am learning spanish because I would like to travel in Spain. Also in many countries in South America.  I feel as though learning a new language is like allowing yourself to blend with an entire different culture.  I am excited for this to begin, and I believe that I need to start talking to people who don't mind correcting me when I am wrong.

My opinion about education in Spain.

I will appreciate your corrections. A long time since I wrote here last time. Anyway, here I am again.Thank you in advance.


As a secondary school teacher this a very insteresting topic for me.

Firstly, we should ask what the real goal of the complusory education is or what it should be.

In Spain, Education is supposed to focus on creating free, critic and autosufficient citizens. With that in mind, I think that Education should be miexes (boys and girls togheter) and that schools should have mixed ability classes. Maybe this should be, at last, in public schools.

If we want to create the best scientifics, the best writers, etc. then we should reconsider all of that things or allow private schools to do what they want in order to achieve the best academid results. That may leads us to the problem of the richs paying private schools and increaing social differences, but maybe that could be avoided with a good and fair system of grants.

One of the principal problems in nowadays schools is the situation in wich teenagers with no interest and no possibility to obtain officials degrees are put into while they are waiting to be 16 and they can leave school; becouse, until then, they are obligued to attend school.

There are two kinds of those young men or women: the ones who sit at the bottom of the class and do nothing: no work, no speak, no listen, no pay attention... nothing. And just the opposite ones: only disturbing. None of them both take nothing positive of that. Neither the teachers, nor thier schoolmates; only politicians who have an umployee without being listed in the unemployment list and familys who have the kid out of the streets for free.

Another problem is the lack of pedagogical and psicological resources a teacher of secondary school has when she or he first enter in one class.


Thank you.

Fictitious request - Please, correct it

Mr. McCulloug

Westbury House, Queens Lane

Arundel, Sussex BN18 9JN

England

 

Dear Mr. Mc Culloug

 

Re: Your advertisement offering “summer on a farm”

Testing writing, Please, correct it

I was getting reeady for work when the bell rang. It was the postman bringing me a very particular parcel…

 

… I don’t remember well what it was my feeling in this moment, however I had the perception that something special it was just to happen. I didn’t hope anything refered to work because we had never received any parcel, envelope or box from anybody, in fact, it was the first time that I saw the postman. Neither the shape nor the colour of the box gave to me news.

 

I picked the parcel up from the postman, I gave to him my thanks and I started carefully to open it. My birthday wasn't near and neither anybody was felt in love with me… because of my curiosity, I was quite excited.

 

My obstacles in English: Top Three

I think that the most of Spanish people who is studying will be agree with me.

 

Torture nº 1

Prepositions, we love to say/write “to arrive to”...

 

HOLA!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Hola todo el mundo! Me llamo Adeisha Lyndine Piere y me gustaría mejorar con mi espanol. Tengo dieciseís anos y soy Trinitario. Tengo un gran examen en un mes y yo necesito auydar por favor en grámatica, vocabulario y orales. Yo hablo ingles y yo podría auydarle si te gusta. :)

 

Finally!

Some days ago I had my first voice chat experience with an American over Skype *sigh*. To my surprise, I realized I wasn't half as nervous as I thought  I would be. I think it helped that the girl on the other end, Olivia by name,  was really kind and easy to talk with, and most of all...she was very patient! *laughter*.All in all, I guess it wasn't that bad at all for a first time. In fact I'm eager to do it again. We talked for quite a long time and I recorded the call so as to listen to it later and spot mistakes and mispronounced words (by me, of course). I really liked the other person's accent and I hope I can imitate it someday.

Literatura

Los dos libros que hemos leído recientemente son demasiado dificíl para mi.  Tanto Caín de Saramago, como El Acoso de Carpintier.  Sin embargo ni pude entenderlos en español o inglés!

El próximo será mas fácil- los de abajo escrito por Mariano Azuela!

 

El español de Colombia es el mejor? Daniel Samper se da a la tarea de responder a esta inquietud

La Feria del Libro de Guadalajara, que acaba de celebrarse en México, tuvo a Colombia como invitado especial; una de sus curiosidades se refiere a nuestro dominio del castellano.

Muy a menudo a los colombianos nos preguntan: "¿Es verdad que ustedes hablan el mejor español del mundo?" Fue, exactamente, el interrogante que me lanzó una revista mexicana a raíz de que Colombia fue el país invitado a la Feria Internacional del Libro que se celebró entre el 24 de noviembre y el 2 de diciembre.

Le expliqué a la revista que las respuestas posibles se clasifican en tres escuelas:

1) La escuela narcicista, que contesta de manera desvergonzada "sí, es verdad". Resulta aconsejable que quienes optan por tan tajante y soberana afirmación procuren ser breves, porque podrían enredarse en las faldas de su propia respuesta. Sé de un antiguo ministro algo pomposo que, enseguida de aceptar con fruición el aserto, agregó que ello se debía en buena parte a la labor educativa de su gobierno, pues antes "hubieron otros que no se preocuparon tanto por el buen uso del español".

2) La escuela de la modesta flor, que niega con sonrojo la pregunta, pues profesa normas de cortesía que impiden aceptar la alabanza en causa propia.

3) La escuela ecléctica, que parece decir que no, pero dice que sí.
Yo pertenezco a esta última. Al oír la pregunta, amago con sorprenderme, finjo un poco de embarazo y ofrezco por todo comentario una sonrisa que pretende ser humilde. Pero que en ningún momento niega el contenido del interrogante.

En realidad, la mejor respuesta la dio hace años José Antonio León Rey, el profesor colombiano que fue delegado por América Latina ante sus colegas de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española.

Español / Ingles

Hola, querro hablar en Español y Ingles en Skype con una persona de Centro America. Yo soy de USA. Estoy aprendiendo Español. ¡No estoy buena a Español pero estoy buena a Ingles!

Club de libros, que libros debemos de leer en los 12 meses que vienen?

La lista completa de los libros  leídos son:

La casa de los Espíritus,  Demasiados Heroes, Cajas de Carton, En el tiempo de las Mariposas, Cain, Malinche, El juego del Angel, Santa Evita, Cuentos Folklóricos Latinoamericanos, Ficciones, El Acoso, Cronica de una muerte annunciada.

Por regla general,  los libros deben de haber publicados primer en español, y cerca de 200 páginas.  Cuales son los libros que debo de recomendar al grupo por los doce  meses entrante?

gracias

Terry 

http://sociedadhispana.blogspot.com/

Hi everybody!

Hi... I´d like to meet someone with whom to practice english.... please can somebody help me..;??