Engineering, architecture and music (correction please) In order to prepare a visit, lets see if I can reach an agreement about the topics I could do the lectures, this way I can prepare a short english power point or something like that... I think it makes no sense to talk about general topics of architecture, maybe I could talk about a singular proyect I was involved in 2010, it is a renovation of an old and unused underground train tunnel to a music concert hall and several rooms where music bands can practice and record on their own. This tunnel have been closed the last 30 years, it is placed in the city, under a cross of two streets and a square. It's about 120 meters long, 8 wide and 8 high, and can afford about 500 people. It has an stage, a radio station room, several trainning rooms for music bands, a dance room, all of them totally refurbished. We had to make new concrete pavements, create rooms with special noise insulation plasteboard on walls and ceiling, acoustic surface treatments with sound absorbing materials. One of the troubles we had during this construction was when we had to make a new entrance to the tunnel, we had to dig to reach 12 meters down, and when we started this task soil started to crumble, material was poor and loose. The way we were going to build this new entrance was with concrete walls, but we had to change it and solve it with a wall of piles. And other special task we had to do was to hold a 1 meter thick and 8 high concrete wall, that supported part of the square of the surface, to create a new door 4 meter wide and 2,5 high, placing a new lintel to supports loads of upper square. It really was an interesting work, we finished it with no accidents and on time.

English/Spanish for engineers and architects

Hello, I would like to improve my spoken english related with engineering and architecture. I can offer my spanish in exchange.

Let me know if you are interested, maybe we could make a skype group or a whatsapp group.

Construction vocabulary Today I'm going to write about my new task, lecturer in a foreign languaje in an other country, about a thoushand kilometers far away from my town. The country I'm talking about is Denmark, I don`t know Danish, so my lectures will be in English. I am a building construction ingenieer, a quantity surveyor, and topics on my lectures will be related with my profession, so I really need someone who can help me improving my spoken English and technicall vocabulary related with biulding construction engineer and its materials. Well, topics I will teach on aren't defined yet, but I suppose it would be something about building foundations, facades and roofs, ways to build, and different solutions. Abviously theese solutions are based in Spanish construction, a bit different from other countries solutions, first reason because of the weather, then because here there is a hand made way to build biuldings, we use prefabricated, but not at all, it's not very extendend yet, in fact, people here think that prefabricated construction is worst than in situ construction. So, lets see if someone can help me!

Meeting with a lawyer Today i had a meeting with a lawyer called Jesus, he is an specialist in causes related with tanatories and funerals. He met me in his office at half past twelve, and i arrived there five minutes before. While i was waiting, there was an officer beside me talking at the phone, he was talking very loud and i was hearing everything he was saying. I was thinking about that the office was very small, they should have a waiting room or a separated space from all the officers tables. When Jesus finished whatever he was doing, he went out of his office and asked me to get in, we hadn't seen before, but he seemed to be very friendly. We talked about several things for one and a half hour, and then we had to leave the conversation because he had another meeting after mine. The thing is that he solved me different things and thinkings, and after all, he did it for free, because we have a common friend, the one who recomended me to talk to Jesus.

Please, correct me if i'm wrong... So, is there any way to get in touch with others and practice a language, giving your language in exchange? without paying ITCs i mean.. I read about language partners, and i found some people who wanted to learn spanish, and are english native, but when i get in their profile always appear the value in ITC and EUR. Maybe there is something that i don't realize about paying, not sure. So, anyway to practice for free? contact me if interested please, and correct this text if possible =)

First contact on Italki Well, i wanted to find someone to practice spoken english with me and i finished here. I think my english isn't very bad, but i need to improve it as much as possible, i always say that i speak english like a five years old baby. I practiced english a lot when i was about twelve, but thats more than thirty years ago. So, if any native english speaker wants to trade his/her english for my spanish i'll be glad to, or just want to talk about any common iterest even. I like indoor and outdoor sports, playing table tennis, mountaneering and snowboarding in the Pirineos, and i recently practiced kitesurfing, it's so hard to start, but i like it. My job is related with bulding construction, something like a project manager, involved in quality control and economics. I have a lot of animals, well, my father does, i just go and enjoy them, three dogs called Babali, Luna and Sira, a horse called Jeque, a donkey called Ulises, 3 sheeps, some chikes and ducks, and a brother, well, he's not an animal, but nothing happens if i name him here... just joking with myself. That's all, just send me a messaje to start speaking. Thanks all, and goooooood learning for all!