Luis
Constructing Houses Everything you want, you can find on the surrounding? I think now there are more people who prefer to make things by themselves. We know that more people work to have a better live, because we know that money can give us more things, like cars, houses and stuffs. In cities, I think, the life is in that way because there aren´t no more options to live, people buying their apartments and rent houses because is difficult to build a new one. In towns on the mountains people used to build his houses by the things they can find. This culture of make things by ourselves is not new, if we study the indigenous cultures we will know how they made and make his constructions. By recollect rocks, and _tierra, madera,_ dry slips and put materials together, indigenous can build houses and other buildings. Only with natural materials is how you can make a Xi’ndé house. There are the materials: _tierra_, rocks, _palos_ _hojas secas de caña_ water of course. First you need to construct the infrastructure, like the skeleton of the house, people use one kind of _madera_ called yánaxo=carrizo. Then mixing _tierra_ and water and put this mixing around all skeleton.
Jul 3, 2015 4:26 PM
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Constructing Houses

Everything you want, you can find on the surrounding? I think now there are more people who prefer to make things by themselves. We know that more people work to have a better life  because we know that money can give us more things, like cars, houses and other things. In cities, I think, life is in that way because there aren´t any more options to live, people buy their apartments and rent houses because it is difficult to build a new one. In towns on the mountains people used to build their houses using the things they could find. This culture of make things by ourselves is not new, if we study the indigenous cultures we will know how they made and make their constructions. By collecting rocks, and _tierra, madera,_ dry slips and put materials together, indigenous people can build houses and other buildings. Only with natural materials can you make a Xi’ndé house. There are the materials: _tierra_, rocks, _palos_ _hojas secas de caña_ water of course. First you need to construct the infrastructure, like the skeleton of the house, people use one kind of _madera_ called yánaxo=carrizo. Then mixing _tierra_ and water and put this mixture around all skeleton.

July 3, 2015

Constructing Building Houses ["constructing" isn't wrong, but "building" is better when talking about houses]

Everything you want, you can find on in the surroundings? I think now there are more people who prefer to make things by themselves ["they make things by themselves" means they do it alone; "they make things themselves" means they make them instead of buying them, etc.]. We know that more people work to have a better live life, because we know that money can give us more things, like cars, houses and stuffs ["stuff" is uncountable, it has no plural form]. In cities, I think, the life is in that way because there aren´t no more any other options to live, people buying their apartments and rent houses because it is difficult to build a new one. In towns villages ["town" gives the idea of a more built-up area, "village" is a much smaller scale settlement] on in the mountains people used to build ["people used to build" means something that happened often in the past, but doesn't happen anymore (la gente construía). There is a similar expression which many people get confused with: "people are used to building" = la gente está acostumbrada a construir] his their houses by with/from/using the things they can find. This culture of making things by ourselves is not new, if we study the indigenous cultures we will know how they made and still make his their constructions. By recollecting rocks, and earth, wood, dry slips [I'm not sure what you mean by "dry slips"] and putting materials together, indigenous peoples can build houses and other buildings. Only with natural materials is how you can you make a Xi’ndé house. These are the materials: earth, rocks, poles, dry cane leaves, water of course. First you need to construct the infrastructure, like the skeleton of the house, people use one kind of wood called yánaxo=carrizo=reeds [though in English, "reeds" wouldn't be considered a kind of "wood"; you could say "people use reeds called <em>yánaxo</em>"]. Then they mixing earth and water and put this mixing mixture all around the skeleton.

July 6, 2015
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