number of words to understand a language How many words do you think you need to understand a language? And how many to speak it? Have you sometime asked yourself this question. I am reading books from a collection called Penguin readers and they are placed by levels. I am now reading books of level three and they have around 1200 words per book. I understand almost all of the words and I think I am going to try the next level that has 1700 words per book. I think it is a good way to improve slowly but effectibly the vocabulary.

Christmas is near Little by little the Chritsmas lights of the cities are turning on. This makes me feel happy. I think is a period of the year that people like and are more sensible to help one another. It is period for drink, eat, laugh, and have a good time with the family and friends.

Different relax Can someone explain the difference between: relax, low key, calm, chill out and let go. I think all of them are related with relax. Can you write some example. Thank you

How can I say in english: " Estoy acostumbrado a .... (hacer alguna cosa)". Thank you.

I hate my bathroom scales First my niece birthday party, next my oldest son birthday party, next a weekend in Torremolinos, and the next weekend my wife birthday party. What a happy month. All the weekends eating and drinking. And when I went up the bathroom scales I saw I had cought a few kilos. Well now the other side of the coin: some exercice, eat fruit and vegetables and try to lose those happy kilograms.

Se puede utilizar slow como verbo: "You are slowing me or you slow me" Thank you.

¿Qué significa: " I really was better off getting caught when I did " ?

A happy weekend I am sitting at home looking through the window. I am thinking about the weekend. Last Saturday we celebrated the 21st birthday of my oldest son. We had a little party with the most part of the family. We ate, drunk, ate again and drunk again. We started at 18 h. and finished at 1 a. m. I think it was a happy party. All the people was funny. We chated and laughed. The worse thing was at the next day. I had a headache all day because I exceded a bit with bear and I only ate fruit and drunk water.

Como se dice "me ha dado por hacer algo (la compra, limpiar el coche, una comida especial etc)