Sunday, September 20, 2015

My progress in spanish + my current favorite spanish songs #3


A new post about my progress in learning spanish, not my favourite subject to write about mainly because I'm learning is so slowly you can't feel the progress, I kind of feel ashamed of myself to say I'm learning spanish especially that I hear some people learned it in three months and here I am in my second year of it, when you learn alone by yourself at, sometimes you lose the motivation to continue and just get so lazy that's why I write those posts to remind myself that I started a learning journey, and there is no way I'm going to give up in the middle of it.

I don't know why I wrote this long introduction?!! whatever; those two months were really tiring for me since I was working, I didn't have much effort for grammar that's why I was concentrating on vocabulary, I was working as a waitress in pretty touristic area, translating the menu to customers was part of my job, I translated the menu to spanish, it wasn't that hard and it helped me a lot, spanish tourists became my specialty even though there wasn't much of them this year. anyway this is the list of the vocabulary I learned maybe it'll help someone out there :

Una camarera: a waitress
Hacer un pedido: to make an order
Una pizza individual, mediana o grande: an undividuel, medium or large pizza
Una pizza grueso o fina: a waitress: a thick or thin pizza
Las sabores de la pizza: flavors of the pizza
margarita, con carne(with meat), vejetariana, 4 quesos (4 cheeses), con marisco (with seafood)
Bebidas: drinks
Aguas mineral: bottled waters
Gaseosas: soda
Ensaladas: salads
Entradas: entries
Pan de ajo con queso: garlic bread with cheese
Alas de pollo: chicken wings
Pastas: pasta
Lasagna con salsa bolognesa: lasagna with meat sauce
Lasagna con marisco: seafood lasagna


other than this vocabulary I learned I have been watching this spanish youtuber, the name of her channel is yuya, she speaks so fast that sometimes the only thing I understand is her introduction "hola guapuras yo soy yuya" and after that I watch the pictures but it's ok native speakers speak fast I like her videos always cute, she's cute:

Now to my favourite spanish songs this month, this summer there was a lot of successful spanish songs playing on the radio and I was glad for that the best for me were:

el perdón - nicky jam & enrique iglesias:



El perdón
Te estaba buscando
Por las calles gritando
Esto me está matando
Te estaba buscando
Por las calles gritando
Como un loco tomando
Es que yo sin ti
Y tú sin mi
Dime quién puede ser feliz
Esto no me gusta
Esto no me gusta

Forgiveness
I was looking for you
Crying out in the streets
This is killing me
I was looking for you
Crying out in the streets
Like a crazy drunk
It's just that me without you
And you without me
Tell me, who can be happy?
I don't like this
I don't like this

El Mismo Sol - Alvaro Soler


El mismo sol
Yo quiero que este sea
El mundo que conteste
Del hasta oeste
Y bajo el mismo sol
Ahora nos vamos
Si juntos celebramos
Aquí todos estamos
Bajo el mismo sol
Y bajo el mismo sol

the same sun
I want this to be
The world to answer
From east to west
And under the same sun
Now we go
Yes we celebrate together
There we celebrate
Under the same sun
And under the same sun

Enrique Iglesias - Noche Y De Dia ft. Yandel, Juan Magan:


Noche y de día
Hay calor in la ciudad
Hay calor in la bahía
Venga fuimos de fiesta
De noche y de día
Fusión internacional
Baila que trae alegría
Venga que siga la fiesta
De noche y de día
At night and at day
There is heat in the city
There is heat in the bay
Como on in we went to the party
On night and on day
International fusion
Dance that brings you joy
Come on the party goes
On night and on day

the next songs aren't that new, actually they are spanish version of some famous american songs, I just discovered them and they are good especially that you don't need to translate them you already get the meaning
Como Amar-enrique iglesias:


Como amar
Te fuiste pero nunca me dijiste adiós
Me dejaste en mil pedazos
Por no saber amar
Como amar
La vida va pasado
Tu carita no ha cambiado
Esos ojitos negros que
Siguen suplicando como amar
Como amar
How to love
You left but I never said goodbye
You left me to pieces
For not knowing how to love
How to love
Life goes by
Your faces not changed
Those black eyes
Are begging how to love
How to love


Ven a Bailar - Jennifer lopez:


Noche y de día
Hay calor in la ciudad
Hay calor in la bahía
Venga fuimos de fiesta
De noche y de día
Fusión internacional
Baila que trae alegría
Venga que siga la fiesta
De noche y de día
At night and at day
There is heat in the city
There is heat in the bay
Como on in we went to the party
On night and on day
International fusion
Dance that brings you joy
Come on the party goes
On night and on day


That's it in of this post, next post about spanish would be better I promise, I'll try harder wish me good luck.





Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Recent reads



It has been a while since I last wrote on my blog like two months, and that’s mainly because of my laziness, plus I felt like my head was empty two stressed to work or think let along write, all I was doing was read, at least I have been doing that.
And that’s what I'm going to talk about today. I have been reading books from different genres a classic, a young adult and some children books.

Let’s start with the classic one, it's a really famous French classic, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, the book is about this women who lives her life thinking that she doesn’t have what it takes to be happy, so she tries to chase those things she’s too blind to know or see that she already have everything. Emma the name of this woman in her chase would do things that we consider or her society considers immoral and even stupid, she knows that but she doesn’t care as long as she’ll get her happy ending the ending that she’ll never get. While reading other people’s reviews about the book I remarked that some people hated Emma because of her disrespect to her husband and child others pitied her for her ignorance, for me I couldn’t stop thinking how much Emma was reliable character how human nature is alike I could see myself doing what Emma was doing, when we are bored, desperate and unhappy we do stupid things that we know are stupid but we think they are better than staying still, doing nothing and just feeling like dying a little bit everyday.

The second book I read was a young adult called the DUFF written by Kody Keplinger, I picked this book because of a positive review of a moroccan youtuber, the story is ok but just not that good for me, too much talking about looks and sex that's what I remember from it, I don't know why but young adult books aren't for me, I'm afraid I'm being unfair to this genre but that's just what I feel, final verdict the DUFF was a waste of time.

All the other books I read are children books, I have been planning to read those forever, and finally I did, like I expected they weren't that easy to read, the vocabulary was all new to me animal names flower names, even with this difficulty I really enjoyed those books, I read Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson a dreamy book about jess and leslie and their magical world I liked this book so much especially that even though it's a children book the author talked about deep issues such as death, religion, love, children abuse this book is just amazing, I also read secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett the book tells the story of Mary a spoiled sick child, who will move to her uncle estate where her life will change not only hers but the life of many people around her, this book is just beautiful, I did retell this story to my little cousin and he was amazed with it, he told me that he wish he could also have a secret garden, I replied me too after this book who doesn't dream of one, the last book is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and to be honest I didn't understand much of it or the book had not much in it, I don't know all I could remember from it was that Alice kept changing sizes kept asking herself who she was, maybe I'm going to reread this book someday I should this book is famous it should be for a reason am I wrong?

That's it for this post, I'm going to keep reading and try to write more I know my writing style sucks, I should try more. to the few people who read the rumbling I write thank you.