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.