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Liza
im planning on going to costa rica to tach english as an ESL teacher for 6 months to 1 year. I also really want to learn the spanish language to the point that I become fluent. what is the best way to become fluent in the spanish language?
Answer
Read the local newspapers. Not books, not the opinion pages, not even most magazines, just the news stories. You will quickly see that Spanish and ENglish have a lot in common. Get the U of CHicago English SPanish dictionary, not an idiotic electronic translator that is so appealing but inconvenient- everybody buys them, nobody uses them.
Avoid contact with English speakers which is now close to impossible in C.R.
Take a class in any subject you like that is given in Spanish. You may flunk the course but you will learn a lot of Spanish quickly. THere are lots of private schools teaching everything imaginable, hair cutting, car repair, electronics and air conditioning maintenance. Doesn't really matter what you take but try to pick something you like.
Avoid taking any private language lessons, all the ones I've seen are rip-offs.
Watch television, again, especially the news.
If you drink, have a drink or two- it eases the inhibition of making an ass of yourself publicly, which is necessary for a few months as you start to babble in a foreign language.( I suppose I could have phrased that more gracefully.)
Good luck.
Read the local newspapers. Not books, not the opinion pages, not even most magazines, just the news stories. You will quickly see that Spanish and ENglish have a lot in common. Get the U of CHicago English SPanish dictionary, not an idiotic electronic translator that is so appealing but inconvenient- everybody buys them, nobody uses them.
Avoid contact with English speakers which is now close to impossible in C.R.
Take a class in any subject you like that is given in Spanish. You may flunk the course but you will learn a lot of Spanish quickly. THere are lots of private schools teaching everything imaginable, hair cutting, car repair, electronics and air conditioning maintenance. Doesn't really matter what you take but try to pick something you like.
Avoid taking any private language lessons, all the ones I've seen are rip-offs.
Watch television, again, especially the news.
If you drink, have a drink or two- it eases the inhibition of making an ass of yourself publicly, which is necessary for a few months as you start to babble in a foreign language.( I suppose I could have phrased that more gracefully.)
Good luck.
What type of damage do cars really do to our environment?
Chris H
Im doing a research project for my english class on the impact of the automobile and the internal combustion engine, but there seems to be nothing out there that I can salvage and use as a reference. What are the good and the bad things about having so many cars on the road today and how does the engine influence our way of life?
I really need some help here, so if you could, Please lend me a hand.
Answer
As far as how the engine influences our day to day life, I'll leave that to you. In a perfect combustion the by-products are water and carbon dioxide. The water doesn't matter, but the carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and that's what's causing global warming. Most motors don't have perfect combustion cycles and release other things like carbon monoxide which is a poison and when it gets in the air or the ground it's bad news. Diesel motors release more carbon dioxide by volume, but go farther on the same amount of fuel. They also release sulfur dioxide which is bad for lungs and the atmosphere.
As far as how the engine influences our day to day life, I'll leave that to you. In a perfect combustion the by-products are water and carbon dioxide. The water doesn't matter, but the carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and that's what's causing global warming. Most motors don't have perfect combustion cycles and release other things like carbon monoxide which is a poison and when it gets in the air or the ground it's bad news. Diesel motors release more carbon dioxide by volume, but go farther on the same amount of fuel. They also release sulfur dioxide which is bad for lungs and the atmosphere.
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