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QUIERO Y NO PUEDO

We can see three words (wannabe, bucket, bouquet), their pronunciation and their definition. The following video, taken from the BBC, is about the main character of a 1990s TV -comedy show. Her name is Hyacinth Bucket. She usually has a problem getting people to...

Hablar inglés es una «obsesión» para algunos

Somos uno de los países que más gastamos en aprender inglés y de los que peor lo hablamos, a pesar de que invertimos el doble que en el resto del mundo, cuyo promedio es de 740 euros.Según VOXPOPULI, nos sobran centros, nos sobran esfuerzos y nos falta más seguridad y...

VISITA AL MUSEO THYSSEN

Last Saturday I saw the Lucian Freud exhibition at the Thyssen museum in Madrid. Days before I had seen some videos about that painter on YouTube, so I learned some interesting things about him and his paintings. He was born in Germany in the 1920s, was the grandson...

¡¡¡Cuidado con Amazon!!!

BEWARE OF FRAUDS AT AMAZON. Last December, I bought a “crystal” chandelier at Amazon.es from a seller called Euroeshop (Chinese). When I got it, I realized I wasn’t made of crystal, but of cheap glass. I requested a return of the product, which Amazon accepted. The...

MAKING THE MOST OF SOMETHING.

Aprovechar y aprovecharse, se dicen de manera diferente en inglés, según su significado. Aprovechar una oportunidad es TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY. Aprovecharse de alguien (una expresión que tiene sentido negativo) se dice TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOMEONE. Aprovechar algo, para...
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