Feliz Navidad

En esta ocasión voy a practicar mi español.
Esta es una época en donde todos los catolicos cristianos y fiesteros nos gusta celebrar la navidad. Después de ir a la iglesia las familias acostumbran reunirse y cenar juntos. Mi familia es muy grande y nos reunimos muchisimos, aunque faltaron mas familiares y amigos. Cada familia llevó un platillo y al final cada uno agarra un plato y se sirve lo que quiera como si fuera un buffet.
En realidad no me servi mucha comida ya que me enfermé y no se me antojaba casi nada. Al pasar la noche, los niños tronaron unos cohetes muy ruidosos que hasta pensamos que habian roto el tinaco de la casa. Ultimamente los fuegos pirotécnicos son mas poderosos que los de mi época.
Nos tomamos unas fotos y yo ya no aguantaba la garganta ni el oido y despues ya en la madrugada me fui a mi casa a dormir. La verdad es que el tiempo se paso demasiado rápido.
¿Y ustedes como celebran la navidad? Siempre es bueno reunirse con la familia y los amigos, ¿no lo creen? Feliz Navidad!

Chat rooms

Hi everybody, lately I've invited to some chat rooms, and some of them are not so good, especially because not everybody has the same English level and most of the time it's more like a waste of time. So I think it's much better if you get few friends with the same or better level of English and the same interests, chat and voice chat with them. And do it frequently.

Reading a book

Well, another way to improve your language skills is by reading a book or e-book. Firstly you have to choose a topic which you are interested in, for example you can choose Statistics. Second, get a book about it and some package software to edit it if you get a pdf document. Finally read all the book loudly, outline and point out the words and sentences you don't know and write down the meaning and the pronunciation of the things you don't know.
Remember to schedule a specific time to do it everyday. Be consistent.

Christmas

Christmas is coming soon. I know that many of yours don't celebrate it, but in my case I do it. I personally like it because I meet my relatives and friends who live so far from my place. We usually have dinner on December 24th and we say some words to thank for the food and the time.
Depending on the family size, people between 2 and more than 100 get together, chat, drink, and eat.
Many dishes are prepared for the dinner, you can get chicken, salmon, pork, stuffed turkey, shrimps, rice, spaguetti, pasta, many different kind of salads such as apple salad with cheese, cream and nuts, roman salad, etc, bread, beans, etc. The point is that you can share that beautiful moment and get along well with your buddies. At the end i think that everybody is your buddy no matter if they're your relatives or not.
You can also get some drinks such as wine, hard cider, wisky, scotch, brandy, rum, tequila, soda, juice, water.
Many families rent a band to have them play some music, or they rent a dj to dance all the night.
Children and youngsters buy and burn fireworks and from time to time some of them get an injury due to the bad manage of the explosive fireworks. But that's nothing that a surgeon can fix. lol
The next day like most of the people get a hangover or they don't sleep well a turkey soup with potatoes and chilli is prepared and I have to say that this is the best soup I've ever tried after Christmas dinner. The leftovers usually are enough to prepare some baggels or any other thing, and again people keep the conversation flowing.
Some people interchange gifts and others don't, that's not necessary.
In conclusion I think that this season is to be with the people we love and the rest of the things don't matter. So be happy and enjoy this time with your pals.

Merry Xmas

Working out

I try to follow this routine to keep myself fit. I don't follow any diet because I consider that I burn enough calories doing this and apart from that my meals are healthy I don't count the calories or whatsoever. I just have a pair of dumbells that weight 20 pounds each one. I drink a lot of water and I don't eat candies. What I usually eat are chicken, rice, beans, tortilla, meat, a lot of veggies and fruits. I hardly ever eat sausaces, ham, pork, fast food or junk food just once or twice a month. I eat little bread. I just have 3 meals a day only

If you don't have a good physical condition I suggest you to train little by little, you can walk first, then do some exercises, don't use any weight or use little weight. Take some rests until your heart beat returns to normality

Before and after doing any kind of exercise I always warm up my muscles and stretch them I took me 10 to 20 minutes.

If you want to loose weight you can walk 30 minutes per day during one month, work out 3 days per week and drink a lot of water. In the second month you have to jog 3 times per week and the other 3 days work out, you can interchange one day of working out, the next day jogging, and so on. Remember that after jogging you have to do abdominals.

I used to jog as well 3 times a week but I got injured so I'm getting over it. Jogging is a good cardio exercise. I suggest that If you feel any strain stop to do that until you are recovered.

Go to the doctor to have a checkup if you have any problem.

I wrote the links so you can see how the exercises are done.

If you get bored of doing this routine, look for other exercises. There are plenty of them on the internet.

Let's the ball rolling!. See you around!

DAY 1

Legs

1. Squats. 4x10.

2. Lunges. 4 x 20.

3. Inverse lunges. 4x20

4. Calf rise. 4x10. (3 different positions, normal, tips in, tips out)

Shoulders

1. Shoulder press. 4x10.

2. Military press. 4x10.

3. Barbell upright row with dumbbells. 4x10.

Abdominals

Video 1 30 seconds each exercise. Video 2 10 repetitions each exercise.

DAY 2

Back

1. Dumbbell row. 6 x 10.

Biceps

1. Alternating curls. 4x20.

2. Alternating hammer curls (standing with dumbbells). 4x20.

3. Concentration curl. 4x10 each arm.

Abdominals

Video 1 30 seconds each exercise.

Video 2 10 repetitions for each exercise.

DAY 3

Chest

1. Push ups 5 x 10 If can't do the normal push ups, try this.

Triceps.

1. Dumbells triceps extensions with 2 hands. 4x10.

2. Triceps kick backs. 4x10.

3. Dumbells triceps extensions with 1 hand. 4x10 each hand.

Abdominals

Video 1 30 seconds each exercise.

Video 2 10 repetitions for each exercise.

Sayings and expressions

We're going to learn some sayings and expressions today. I hope you enjoy them.



Realmente me gustaría poner a alguien en su lugar. Actually, I'd like to put someone in his place.

Date prisa! que es para hoy!. Step on it! Get your skates on!

Me importa un bledo. I don't give a damn.

Hoy por mi, mañana por ti. You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.

Más vale prevenir que lamentar. It's better to be safe than sorry

Aqui mis chicharrones truenan. I'm running this show.

Destapar un hoyo para tapar otro hoyo. Don't rob Peter to pay Paul.

Dando y dando, pajarito volando. Cash and carry.

Mucho ruido y pocas nueces. All talk, no action.

Las apariencias engañan. Never judge a book by its cover.

Hacer San Lunes. To have Monday pneumonia.

A lot of people have Monday pneumonia at least once a month.

Feliz San Lunes a todos!

Texto en Español

Hola a todos. A pesar de que no los conozco solo quiero que sepan que me alegra que mucha gente de todo el mundo visiten mi blog.
No se realmente que cosa les gusta de mi blog ni se sus edades ni sexo ni mucho menos sus nombres a excepción de un par de amigos con los que me llevo muy bien.
Como ya saben practicamente escribo en Inglés y muy pocas veces en Español o en Portugués. Espero que en un futuro pueda escribir en mas Idiomas. Mi meta en la vida es aprender por lo menos 4 idiomas, cada vez que hablo con algun amigo extranjero que habla mas de 3 idiomas me sorprende y me da ánimos para que yo también pueda aprender, si ellos pueden yo también puedo y cualquier persona también puede.
Este fin de semana lei el blog de una persona holandesa que escribe en portugués y el decía que para aprender un idioma tienes que escuchar el idioma aunque no lo entiendas. El se compró unos audífonos inalámbricos para escuchar 5 horas continuas de tv en portugués, se me hace un poco daniño para los oidos ya que si usas mucho los audífonos puedes ir perdiendo la audición gradualmente, por otro lado los dialogos que usan en los programas de tv son dialogos que están adaptados para que cualquier persona nativa del idioma los entiendan, asi que son diálogos comunes y corrientes. Estoy de acuerdo en que entre mas horas le dediques a escuchar y a practicar un idioma mas pronto lo vas a aprender. También creo que hay personas que se les facilita aprender idiomas, es como un don que ya se trae, es como las matemáticas, algunos son muy buenos y otros no lo son.

Espero que tengan un excelente inicio de semana, cuidense, abriguense muy bien y seguimos en contacto. Dejen sus comentarios. Saludos

Learning methods

I've been learning English for almost 16 years but I haven't been consistent for many reasons that I'm going to mention.
1. The study program just lasted 4.5 years of English at highschool + 2 years at the university.
2. It wasn't necessary at that age.
3. Lack of motivation.
4. One entrepreneur I met said that learning English was a waste of time. I took that bad advice.
5. English courses and materials are pretty expensive. I couldn't afford them.
6. I had bad English teachers.
7. I didn't have access to the Internet.

Well those were some reasons why I wasn't interested in learning English. However, all that time spent in it, it actually help me nowadays. Although I am not fluent yet I can understand 80% and I can speak the basis.
English is required in a lot of jobs because the business are international you have always to deal with the customers, workers, managers, suppliers, etc. and plenty of the information is in English.
I agree with the program total immersion, I think it's the best to learn a language but sometimes you need a teacher to explain you at least the basis of the language.
The languages that I tried to learn are:
1. English. I'm still working on learning it, because there are a lot of vocabulary and expressions that I haven't mastered yet. I'm not fluent yet.
2. German. I studied it for a week, but I really got mixed up my mind with English language and I quit because It's not easy to get a german friend to talk to.
3. Chinese. I started to learn chinese 2 years ago because I ran across some voicerooms on the web and a chinese school taught it online. It seemed to be interesting for me, but that only lasted few weeks the voiceroom was canceled and I had many chinese friends but due to the time It was difficult for me to talked to them. I stopped to learn it for a while but I still learn it from time to time.
4. Portuguese. I took some online lessons and It really worthed it. Because it is a roman language I was familiar with the language, and I learned the basis quickly. I just study it for fun from time to time. I have many brazilian friends who I can talk to. Sometime I ended talking in portunhol (a mix of portugues and spanish).

The keys of learning a language are:

A) You have to speak it as much as you can although you don't have plenty of vocabulary.
B) Listen to any audio in that language.
C) Speak with natives speakers.
D) Write a lot.
E) Chat.
F) Motivate yourself.
G) Be consistent.
H) It's better to study 1 hour a day than 5 hours in one day.

What do you think about it?
I'll be looking forward to hearing news from you, feel free to leave any comment. See you next time.