Our Brain

Hi my friends. It's good to see you.

Before start writing I want to say that I'm with the people of Japan. I'm really concerned about what happened there and I feel really sorry for the families that lost a relative.

Yesterday in a conversation with my family an interesting topic came up. My aunt was talking about a book she read the name of the book is "what if your other half instead of an orange is a grapefruit" (Que tal si tu media naranja es toronja). In that book the author explains how the men's and women's brains work, and what is interesting for men and women. Then my dad said that the human beings only use the 10% of their brain. And well in order to improve the capacities of the brain is required to do different things that we don't usually do in a normal day because in a day we do repetitive tasks. For example: We can blindfold ourselves and walk carefully in a room and experience new sentations, we can play a musical instrument like drums, the keyboard, guitar, etc. , we can learn new languages like chinese or japanese where we have to remember the strokes' order and the meaning of the characteres, we can write with our left hand if we're right-handed or vice versa. These are some of the examples we can do to develop our brain.

What do you think?

Adjectives Verbs Nouns Adverbs

Sometimes I get confused, I don't know exactly when a word is an adjective, verb, noun or adverb. For this reason I'm going to type a list of words to remember.

Adjective Verb Noun Adverb
aware be aware awareness
bribe bribe
helplessness
fussy (exigente) demand/call for
hate hatred (odio)
true truth
protest
worship
fast
secluded /isolated isolate isolation
good well


I think you can do something like that to improve your language.

An interesting week

This was a very interesting and fun week. I hanged out with some friends, and I met my friend's girlfriend who only speaks English. I talked to her for a while and I really felt very comfortable with my English despite of not having practiced it for some weeks. Sometimes I said how do I say...? just to think about the word I was trying to remember, for example I didn't remember the word environment. She asked me many questions about my life what did I do, What my plans were, If I was able to move to any place, and things like that; I also asked her the same questions, and well I think the conversation was going well until a friend of us arrived and we had to join 2 tables and for some reason we all changed seats so my friend's girlfriend sit far from my seat and we couldn't keep talking. The rest is history.
I want to point out some important things about speaking.
Speak in an easy way. Use simple verbs. Don't try to spend so much time remembering a word, If you don't remember it use another word or explain the person what the word is used for or the meaning.
Listen carefully the conversation and catch key words, it's not so important to get the 100% of the words in a conversation but it's important to know the general idea.
Relax when speaking, don't worry too much about what you're going to ask when you're listening to the person. When you're calm you can remember the words, and you'll feel comfortable with the conversation.
Do your best to speak correctly, using the correct tones, stress, and the pronunciation. If you don't know it use another word you know it's pronunciation. It's not so good that the other person says what did you say? You can loose confidence.
Be brave and don't be shy to speak. If you never try it you never improve your English.
And the most important thing is that you have to ENJOY the language.