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Dissertation Proposal Sample and Dissertation Proposal Topics?

Hey…. Just stuck with my dissertation proposal and amazed…. You know why? I just come across a website that offers something really valuable and in return they are not asking for my money… Isn’t it amazing? It may be amazing for you people when you check them if they are true in their claims… Now the question is what are their claims when it comes to dissertation proposal help? Before I got towards their cla… Continue

Added by gene pitney on September 28, 2009 at 3:04pm — No Comments

Your local Belen

I am not religious but I have enjoyed looking at the different Belens in towns in Spain. The cagon figure always gives me a laugh. Unfortunately they don´t include him in the main Belen in Cartagena.I thought it might be fun if those of us who live in Spain post a picture of our local Belen. I´ll start the ball rolling with a picture of a loaf made in the shape of one from a local baker´s. I´ll post some more of the one in my barrio and the main Cartagena one once these are fully operational at… Continue

Added by Fiona Pitt-Kethley on December 18, 2008 at 9:23pm — 1 Comment

Mediaeval Market in Cartagena

This should be a good event. Here are the details from the ayuntamiento site: Desde el Viernes 28 Noviembre 2008 - Hasta el Domingo 30 Noviembre 2008 VII Mercado Medieval en Cartagena Del 28 al 30 de noviembre se celebra este evento sociocultural, con 120 casetas de artesanía y gastronomía que se distribuirán por vías emblemáticas del casco histórico de la ciudad El Ayuntamiento de Cartagena, a través de la Concejalía de Atención Social, ha puesto en marcha el VII Mercado Medieval que se va a… Continue

Added by Fiona Pitt-Kethley on November 26, 2008 at 8:55am — 8 Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - lesson 18 to 25

It's about time I wrote another blog on my actions of learning Spanish. I've been so busy making and adding lots of vocabulary games for our club members to enjoy, and producing our new Spanish language online flip books for our video subscribers - one with audio included - that I've barely had time to study myself. However, I have gone through some more video lessons from our beginners course, completed the exercises and vocab games. I've also read and studied a few spanish stories and have ar… Continue

Added by Jan on November 16, 2008 at 12:28pm — No Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - -Lesson 17 - 18

Lesson 17 in the beginners course is about time, which I don't need to study, so I also viewed lesson 18 which is about the verb gustar. When I first learned this with Matthew in one of his classes, I had a bit of trouble with it. It is a hard concept for English speakers to get around, as we say we like something this way - I like the book, he likes the book etc. whilst Spanish say the book is pleasing to me, the book is pleasing to you, etc. So it took some time for me to get used to this an… Continue

Added by Jan on October 24, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Diary of Learning Spanish - Lessons 13 - 16

I´ve not had time to write a blog on each lesson, but I have been going through the SLS Beginners Course video lessons. Lesson 13 covered stem changing verbs from e to i. Lesson 14 explained the two irregular verbs - Ser (to be) and ir (to go). Lesson 15 was a lesson on reflexive verbs and lesson 16 explained the differences between ser and estar. I´ve done all the exercises associated with these video lessons, listened to the podcasts that go with the written story on each page as well as the… Continue

Added by Jan on October 22, 2008 at 11:54am — No Comments

Daily Diary on learning Spanish - Lesson 12 - stem changers o-ue

Viewed Matthews video lesson on stem changers o - ue, then did the exercise - got all correct :-) There are a lot of examples of o - ue verb changers in the podcast for this lesson. One of the phrases used in the conversation piece made me take notice. Bueno, llueve un poco, pero no más que aquí. Recuerdo alguna vez cuando llovió mucho aquí. Pero suele hacer buen tiempo en esta parte de España. Suelo - an o to ue stem changing verb -is from the infinitive soler - to be in the habit of,… Continue

Added by Jan on October 10, 2008 at 10:24am — 2 Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - -Lesson 11- Stem changing verbs - e to ie

Viewed Matthews video lesson 11 on how to use the 'boot' to remember which of the stem changing verbs changes from e-ie and which remain the same when conjugating them. Did the exercises and read the conversation piece out loud for practice. I've pasted the transcript of this lesson's conversation below so that you can have a go at practising yourself - you can listen to the podcast of it on our main SLS HOMEPAGE link by clicking on the popup player and choosing podcast 11 I've also been readi… Continue

Added by Jan on October 8, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

Update to my blogs on learning Spanish

You may have noticed I haven´t been posting for a while. That´s because we had one of our infrequent violent storms on the med and a lightening flash took out my router & telephone. Fortunately I had un-plugged our laptops, as even though we have surge protectors, these don´t always work in such extreme situations. Our neighbours lost computers, TV´s and also telephones! We replaced the phone & router, but I then had problems getting an internet connection - the codes for our wifi route… Continue

Added by Jan on October 6, 2008 at 7:43am — 1 Comment

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 17 - GCSE Spanish

As our video site is down today I couldn´t access the lessons, so I have decided instead to start my studying for a GCSE qualification in Spanish. Let me explain. My daughter, who´s at a good level of Spanish, is going to take her GCSE early, and I thought it might be an idea if I also take this exam. She´ll have the books needed for study, and will be able to give me a bit of help - at the same time, her competitive nature will ensure that she studies hard to get a better exam result than me -… Continue

Added by Jan on September 18, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 16 - Lessons 1 - 10 Revision

Today I thought I´d just review all that I have done so far before going on to the next video lesson. I´ll go over the vocab and useful phrases lists on pages 1 - 10 and make sure I understand and can use them all. After that I´m simply going to go over the list of irregular verbs that change their stem spellings; (the core part of the word before the endings which give the clues to their tenses) from ´o´ to ´ue´ such as the word I mentioned in a previous blog ´volver´ I´ll write the most used… Continue

Added by Jan on September 17, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 15 - Lesson 10 - Irregular Verbs in the 1st person

The video lessons are starting to get much more interesting for me. I need to learn more irregular verbs. As Matthew mentioned in a comment on my last blog, I have gaps in my learning, so going through the beginners lessons is good for me. Most of the irregular verbs in the first person listed on this lesson´s page I know, but some, because I haven´t used them in conversations, are unfamiliar on my tongue, if you know what I mean. I may pause for a few days at this lesson, rather than go onto t… Continue

Added by Jan on September 16, 2008 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 14 - Lesson 9 - Articles

This video lesson explained how articles work in Spanish - a table, the books, etc. After watching the video I read out aloud the Traveller in Spain story. Off course the conversation piece uses grammar points not yet covered in the video lessons, but it is still worth the beginner listening to it on the podcast, even if they don´t yet understand all of the sentences. It´s only a short example and by repeatedly listening, they will start to ´develop an ear´ for the Spanish sounds. They could the… Continue

Added by Jan on September 15, 2008 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 10 - Lesson 8 - IR Verbs Plural

Today I watched SLS video lesson 8 on IR verbs plural, then did the online exercises - got them all correct. Then I did the online matching game to test myself on the vocabulary & useful phrases written on that page - again all correct.

It´s easier to use this game to match the English sentence to the Spanish than translate though, and easier to translate sentences from Spanish to English, rather than the other way around, so I… Continue

Added by Jan on September 11, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 9 - Lesson 7 - IR Verbs

I said yesterday that I would tell you how I got on with my Spanish chat. Well, Eugenio wasn´t there so I practised my ´speech´ with Jean, his wife. I did OK although a little slow saying my piece as I was unfamiliar with the phrase. Jean was very patient with me though and said, muy bien, when I´d finshed. If you remember, the sentence I was going to say was this: Bebo café a menudo, me apetece una bebida diferente hoy, ¿Puedes recomendarme algo? Jean reponded: No sé, ¿qué te apetece? Respond… Continue

Added by Jan on September 10, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 8 - Lesson 6 - ER Plural Verbs

I started as usual by viewing Matthew´s video lesson on ER plurals, then listened to the podcast whilst reading the story on the lesson page, which had a lot of examples for ER plural words, then I listened to the vocabulary and useful phrases list. I didn´t need to do the exercises as I already know all these words and phrases. Some of the sentences in the´Traveller in Spain´ story needed my attention though. I must remember to try and use ´a menudo´ (often) in my conversations occasionally. I… Continue

Added by Jan on September 9, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 7 - Lesson 5 - ER Singular Verbs

As you can see, I didn´t have time to do any Spanish on Friday, but I´ve made up for it today. Below I´ve put video lesson 4´s ongoing Spanish story called, ´A Traveller in Spain´ which always has a Spanish conversation piece written, and spoken on our podcasts. Some of the sentences relate to future lessons, so our subscribers should always look back over these conversations as they learn new tenses to try to pick them out - Deberíamos, for example is a future tense - we should. I watched the… Continue

Added by Jan on September 8, 2008 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 4 - Lesson 4 - AR Plural Verbs

Daily Diary on learning Spanish - Day 4 - Lesson 4 - AR verbs plural. As per previous days I watched the fourth video lesson on AR verbs plural but didn´t have time to go through the vocabulary list, useful phrases or exercises as I had too many family responsibilities to do today. I did however manage to read another paragraph of Sol Y Sombra although didn´t pick out the words I needed to learn as I usually do. I just got the gist of the whole paragraph by the words and sentences that I did kn… Continue

Added by Jan on September 4, 2008 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 3 - Lesson 3 - AR Singular Verbs

Day three - Lesson 3 - AR Singular Verbs I was very busy today so did´nt have time to visit the corner shop for my Spanish chat with Eugenio and Jean, or for that matter, do a lot of studying. I did find time to view Matthew´s video lesson and listen to the podcast, noted the use of the verb alojar in the Spanish conversation piece - Sí, me alojo en un hostal cerca de aquí (Yes, I´m staying in a hostel near here) and also noticed that in Spanish you would say, thanks for ´the advice´, rather th… Continue

Added by Jan on September 3, 2008 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Diary on learning Spanish - Day 2 - Lesson 2 - Pronunciation

Day Two - Lesson Two - Pronunciation I watched Matthews video on pronunciation, then listen to the podcast where, in the Traveller in Spain story, Matthew speaks to the owner of a Hostel in Madrid. He is asking to book a room and has a short conversation with her explaining that he is in Spain to improve his Spanish. The owner corrects his pronunciation of the word HA-BI-TA-CIÓN. I then went through the alphabet, repeating after the speaker on the podcast. You can listen to this podcast in the… Continue

Added by Jan on September 2, 2008 at 8:00am — 4 Comments

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