Sunday walk As it's turning to be a habit these last Sundays, I went for a walk when I witnessed what I imagined thousand of times would happen at Mar del Plata's shore, but I've never had the chance to actually see. I was already in my way back when a family drew my attention. They had parked in front of a 'healthy station', a park with machines and tools to do exercises for free. What it looked as the father was already out, jumping from one place to the other seeing which work out he could do. The daughter, watching this could not contain herself and decided to go out to join him. As it was a two doors vehicle, the mother who was in the copilot seat had to descend first and move the seat to let the girl out. I felt someone passing through my side at a very high speed. It was a guy on a bicycle, heading towards the family. He noticed that the girl was getting out the car, but he planned to dodge her. The young lady started to run toward his father in excitement when she turned to the cyclist and saw what was going on. She also trusted in her dodging skills, but unfortunately she picked the very same direction as the other guy. The impact was going to be imminent. I heard the breaks and the wheels drifting, the sound of the last and helpless attempt to stop the inevitable. They crashed. The front wheel got stuck in the girl's leg, sending the cyclist to the air. He flew a meter until his face reached a lamppost. Both stood up, touching the parts where they got hit, mainly due the shock than because of the pain. They asked each other a couple of times if they were ok until the guy decided to keep his way.

Motivational videos

Hello everyone,

I would like to kown what is your opinion about this kind of stuff. Do you listen or watch videos to get motivated or do you know people doing so? Do you think that they truly help people?

Have you worked abroad in South Korea or do you know someone who did?

Hello,

I'd like to know experiences about people who have traveled to that country for work purposes. Is it easy to find jobs there? how did they get the job? 

Please, tell me your experiences

Night life at your country?

I was wondering how the night life at other countries is.

In mine, Argentina, poeple tend to go to discos or bars, specially at Fridays and Saturdays. It's common to reunite with friends in some house to share a dinner and do what we know as "la previa". The translation of "previa" is "previous", and it was called that way because it consists in start drinking before going out. We do that to save some money, and also to spend some time together until the depart time arrives. The time to arrive to a disco depends on the city, but it's hardly before 00:00. Actually, in Mar del Plata, the city where I'm living, we go to those places at 2 am.

So, how's the night life where you live?

Video Game It's been a while since I don't write anything here, keeping a diary is not something I use to do. However, I wanted to share an experience with a particular video game that changed my life. Everything started on 2003. All my friends started to play an online RPG game named Tibia. The graphics didn't attracted me at first and I had decided to skip it. However, my friends convinced me to try it out. At first it was fun because all my friends were playing it, included my brother. But after a while, they started to retire from the game and I had to play it alone. It wasn't bad at all, at least it was my first though. By the way, I've choose to become a sorcerer in the game. The idea of magic and casting spells always attracted me. After some years of playing that odd game I realized I was addicted to it. Hour after hour I was thinking about my character and the things I could be doing online. Sometimes I played the whole night without sleeping at all. I think my record was playing for 2 days, only stopping to eat and do my needs. After some years of being like that, I started to think that I was doing something wrong. In conclusion, I've decided to sell my character and forget about the game. I used that money to buy a new graphic card and keep playing other games but more casually. But it wasn't the end of my troubles. After I got back to reality I realized that I lacked skills to socialize. I also felt that I was missing something, I was empty. Fortunately, I found the solution for that. That was then when sports came back to my life again. Doing an sport make me feel alive once again. It also helps me to find new friends and share good moments with other people. I've lost so many things for that addiction, like friends and good moments. Sadly, I can't go back in time and change that part of my life. However, thanks to that experience, now I know how valuable is my life and each opportunity presented to me.

Good topics to talk about with language partners

It's been a while since I heard/read people complaining about the common questions they are asked when talking with a new language partner. In my opinion, there are things that are must-to-ask to know who you are talking with. So, I'm wondering what do you think about it? Do you have ideas to avoid that 'routine'?

 

On other hands, once all those basic questions are answered, what do you think is a good topic to continue talking? I don't usually make a plan for the meetings I have, I just let the conversation flow. Do do you do the same or do you make a list of the possible topics that you can talk about?

The vowel schwa

In one of my last English classes we were discussing and practicing about this vowel. I found it to be hard to pronounce, but my goal is to keep practicing to excel it hehehe.

What do you think about this vowel? Do you have or did you have troubles with its pronunciation? Do you have any trick to know where they can be found in a word or sentences and how to pronounce it properly?

Tips for learning korean

Hi all,

I'm starting to learn korean. Right now I'm just memorizing the alphabet but I'll start with some vocabulary soon. I'd like to ask if someone can give me tips about how to learn this language. Also if you have some books or videos that may help me with that I'd appreciate if you can give me the names/links

 

Thanks

Romantic movie

Hi, I'm looking for a movie of this genre to watch. I'd like something as "Don't worry, I'm a ghost", "Hello school girl", "There is something about Mary", "The weeding date", etc... Can someone recomend me any? It doesn't care the language, as long I can watch it with subtitles in English or Spanish.