paca furacu y tola

Today is a wonderful summer day in autumn. We went to see "paca, tola y furacu" the bears. We ate a "fabada" and were walking near the river "trubia". Then we came back home and were swimming at pool... perhaps the last time until next summer.

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Today was a wonderful summer day in autumn. We went to see "paca, tola y furacu" the bears We ate a "fabada" and walked near the river "Trubia". Then we came back home and swam at pool... perhaps the last time until next summer.
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Today has been a wonderful summer day in autumn. We've gone to see "paca, tola y furacu" the bears. We've eaten a "fabada" and have walked near the river "trubia".Then we've come back home and have suwm at pool...perhaps the last time until next summer

...which of these paragraph do you prefer?

Strategic Business Plan

I keep going practicing my write English,
Today I'm trying to translate my post called "plan estrategico anticrisis" I put in January the 9.
These are the notes I took in a Professor Pedro Bueno conference.
First some general reflexions about crisis:

In all Trades, in all crisis, always someone survives.
Crisis don't ruin everything, something still works.
Some companies really crack because the crisis, but others crack because they haven't done well their job.
Cycles exist.
An Advice: Don't hide the problems to much time, under carpet.

Now some questions to make a Strategic Business Plan

-What could I do?, How many thing I could do?
-How could I finance it?
-Am I in the right place? (this is my one)
World is so little and it's no raining in all places.
-Have I got the right size? (I'm talking about the company)
-Who will do the labour?
Have I got the right labour team? (quality and quantify)
-Have I got the technological right level.
Kodak was the number one but cracks when digital photo born.
-Have I got the right structure capital?
-Have I got anything other companies don't have?
-It's better to give something else than sales.
The "low cost" only works if there is only one by sector.
-How much is my company?
I make money every day or I spend it

holiday

"Holiday" is always in singular. For example, "I’m on holiday this summer" but when you use the expression "during the holidays" is plural or Speak about children’s holidays for example "the summer holidays"

I last was on holiday I was at a village on the coast of Asturias near Galicia.
During the holidyas, I got up with the sun, fed the hens and the chicken, and helped the farmer to milk her cows… went for stroll at sunset...
It was marvellous to live to nature’s rhythm,
It wasn’t exactly that it was but …
It sounds better than the typical “ I got up and went to lie down at beach all day …”
Anyway, I want to practice the farm trade (gremio granjero) words I learnt today.

Now some tourist trade words I learnt today
the air-hostess asked us if we want anything to drink (azafata)
She was very tall and did look pretty
My rucksack is very big and weighs a lot, but I put it in on my back and forget it. (mochila)
I must go through customs because I came from out of Europe. (pasar por la aduana)
I must put a vaccinate because I go to jungle. (vacuna)
I must fill in the form before entry in the united states (rellenar el formulario)
I must prepare well my suitcases, I carry all my luggage by myself. (maletas, equipaje)
I slept all night in a train couchette so I'm very tired today (litera)
I don't want go for a slightseeing tourist, my feet are starting to ache (visita turistica)

in on and at

Like you can see I keep going with expressions or words I learnt and attract attention to me
Today is time for “in” “at” or “on”
They used then like you can see down here:

In a minute
In two days
In August
In summer
In 1971

At seven o’clock
At morning
At noon

On Monday
On Holiday

Sit on a chair
Sit at this table

news is good

news is a countless word.
It uses always in singular
but it can be singular of plural...
for example

The news is good. (plural used in singular)
A piece of news is good (singular used in singular)


How much news is there today?
no one
Nowadays no news is good news.

I first / I last

The Spanish talk English like we think in Spanish (al menos al principio), so that we say for example
"the last time I went to Barcelona I bought a lot of things"

but British say
"I last went to Barcelona I bought a lot of things"

It's the same with First.
"I first went to Barcelona I didn't buy anything"

The emphatic "To do" and something else

I always have seen the verb to do like auxiliary to make questions or negations
But it’s the first time I see it like auxiliary to get emphasis
There are three ways as long as I know (que yo sepa)

One: to insist about you say, for example:
-She does look pretty.

Two: to contradict another person says, for example
-He didn’t come
-He did, but he didn’t stay long time

Three: To order to another person, for example:
Do sit down, please.

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today I heard a think attract my attention
here you are
one million
two million
three million
...
thousand million
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million has not plural like in Spanish
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The Spanish have twenty "dedos"
English people have ten toes (at feet), eight fingers (at hands) and the two thumbs (los gordos)
the canarian have ten "dedos" at hands and ten "ñoños" at feet.

questions tags

English people are like galicians, they don’t like pronounce
So when they say something then they ask for the opposite
Really it’s a way to get to the interlocutor a open door to continue the conversation
That’s like the “¿no?” we use in “parece que va a llover, ¿no?
They do that with the “questions tags”, don’t they?

She is coming, isn’t she?
He admires you, doesn’t he?
It would be wonderful, wouldn’t it?

Something attracts attention to me:
When use “Everybody, somebody or nobody”
the verb is in singular but the question tag is in plural

Everybody is coming here, aren’t they?
Somebody admires you, don’t they?
Nobody knows, do they?

to be continued...
bye, bye

About to

Another expression I find very interesting ( or attract my attention or caught my attention) is

About to

I hear it a lot on TV

It means "a punto de"
For example: I'm about to go to bed but I write this lines before
so now I'm just about to go to bed.

Really I do...

Good night!

To be continued...

More tomorrow...

up to you!

Last weekend and Monday we went to "el llamón", so no course, no English TV, no blog, only the neighbour's farms with their cows, pigs, hens and the chicken. But I learnt an expression talking with Ton (my father in law if I was married), he teaches me this expression:

"up to you!"

it means "allá tú" o "tú mismo".

he also said me that "atract attention" the title of my past post, sounds like Asturian-English

so if you know other way to say "llamar la atención", please tell me.

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Definitely It was a very different weekend, it started with a great party on Friday night, a wedding on Saturday and ended with a funeral on Monday.

I hope more relax the next.

attract attention (to me) lesson one. first lesson

person is singular, people is plural
one person but two people

bored is not the same that boring
I'm bored because my work's boring

if you want pronounce like they do
"you're" you must say like "your"
"you aren't" you must say like "you ant"

English Course

hi guys!

I'm in my last attempt to improve my English
I hope it works!

I've been studding English since I was a child but never I've could talking fine. I only understand not American neither British people talking slowly in English. (very slowly)

So I've taken three decisions (or "I make three decisions)
one: To study a new course. This time a "on line" course.

two: To put the TV always in original version (V.O.) without subtitle.

three: To write (in this blog) all the new things I learn and attract attention to me.

well there's another decision, I must travel to London or any place to practice, one time before 2010 Like you can see, my English is not too good, but it gets better. (irá mejorando?)

tomorrow more and better. a lot of more (like my Manolo would say)

I'm here to learn so please correct me if I'm wrong...

it helps me very much, thank you.

by guys!! (to be continued)