So, this is a guitar cover video that I made last week. It's a cover of "The Hawthorne Passage" one of my favourite Agalloch songs from the album The Mantle. Hope you enjoy it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZNxbFVs0c4
Thanks for watching :...
sábado, 31 de mayo de 2014
sábado, 24 de mayo de 2014
Teaching you Progressive Spanish
Hi people. A couple of months ago I released a pilot episode for a podcast series called Teaching You Spanish. I only made one episode and I pretty much left the project abandoned for a while. I was trying to teach you spanish using spaced repetiton, little story lines and role-play, really similar than Pimsleur but I guess a little bit more realistic.Now, I've decided to revive this project but not...
miércoles, 30 de abril de 2014
Goddess of Thunder (Short Novel in Progress) Chapter 7
The seventh installment is here.
VII
"Does it hurt?" said the doctor, inspecting Ailine's arm.
"A little bit"
Ailine was in a small wooden infirmary. It was the first time than an actual medic checked her, but she wasn't sure if he was an ACTUAL medic because he was incredibly young, probably...
sábado, 26 de abril de 2014
Fastest way to learn languages: TPR
In this video I discuss Total Physical Response a little bit, more specifically this is going to be a review of Learning Another Language Through Actions which is the quintessential book about TPR. Total Physical Response is now considered to be one the fastest ways to learn languages:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpxbAlR1i3cHere's the video I quote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZY6XpB214Thanks...
lunes, 7 de abril de 2014
Goddess of Thunder (Short Novel in Progress) Chapter 6
Goddess of Thunder is back, sorry for the delay, with my thesis, exams and social service I haven't found the energy to write, March was a really heavy month for me but I'm sure April will be more relaxing and I'll be able to continue working on the different projects that I have going on right now, here's the sixth chapter. Also, I think that I'm going to start calling Goddess of Thunder a...
miércoles, 26 de marzo de 2014
The Three Main Goals in Language Learning
A lot of people might believe that learning a language is a non-sequential thing but more of a chaotic process in which you're just exposed to the language and then a lot of things start to happen and suddenly... pum... you're already speaking the language.I know that it might seem to be that way in the eyes of the language learner but in reality, language learning, as any other skill, is a very sequential...
lunes, 17 de marzo de 2014
The Greatest Fool (Short Poem)
This one is about things I've seen that happen too frequently that I don't even know how to react.The Greatest FoolBy Emanuel VasconcelosI cannot stand the smell of it.The more I smell the more I hate.Consuming them, I can't stand it!Like the immigrant that settles,One becomes accustomed by it.Using imaginary inkTo write on the big white book.They call me a fool 'cause I'm young,They call me a fool...
viernes, 28 de febrero de 2014
Pimsleur: The Most Underrated Language Product
I've been wanting to write a post about Pimsleur for so long. My review of Assimil has been my most popular post so far and apparently a lot of people liked it, but there's also another language learning product that I must do justice, and that's Pimsleur.Assimil is a charismatic language learning product,...
lunes, 24 de febrero de 2014
Goddess of Thunder (Short Story in Progress) Chapter 5
VShe was on the road once again, the storm had just begun, the winds were becoming more and more hostile but they were nothing that she couldn't handle, the journey was steady the danger was being ignored. But then everything changed with the appearance of the tornado at the end of the road. There was no way of her to change directions by know, so she had no option but to be consumed by it.Ailine...
lunes, 17 de febrero de 2014
Darkness in the Corners (Short Poem)
Short poem of mine, regarding the easy life and other things:Darkness in the CornersBy Emanuel VasconcelosIt's unknown to me when and how, but they made it,or so it seems.It's unknown to me what colors are they wearing,they're so bright...so bright that I cannot distinguish them at all.Calling themselves masters of change,attracting other souls to them.Evidence in the imagesand evidence in the words.They...
domingo, 16 de febrero de 2014
Goddess of Thunder (Short Story in Progress) Chapter 4
Fourth chapter, hope you enjoy this one. :)IVWhoever reaches the top of the mountain, he or she will gain an audience with the Goddess of Thunder, she will grant him or her a wish. Ailine knew the legend but she never believed it, she didn't head to the mountain with that in mind, she just did it to escape the storm that always tormented her, she just did it because it gave her the sensation that...
lunes, 10 de febrero de 2014
Goddess Of Thunder (Short Story in Progress) Chapter 3
IIIThe sound of the knocking door was the only thing audible that rusty morning. She didn't even know what time it was, this was the first time in her life were she really needed to enter a restaurant and the restaurant was closed. She heard someone moving inside, so she knocked even harder. Someone finally opened the door."Young lady, we will open in two hours...oh it's you!" said the waiter."I need...
domingo, 9 de febrero de 2014
The Ordeal of Learning a Language alone.
So, I've decided to stop learning French and start learning Italian. This month of February I'm focusing exclusively on Italian to see how far I can go on my own. I don't really need Italian, I don't need to learn it for anything serious so I'm just doing it for the heck of it. But of course,...
martes, 4 de febrero de 2014
On the importance (or lack of it) of starting something the right way.
I think it's impossible to determine what moment is a good moment to start doing something.What is the appropriate moment to become enrolled in something? what is the appropriate moment to start a habit? or to leave one?It's truly rare to find a moment which you could interpret as the absolute moment in which you should start doing something, and if you ever find that so-called perfect moment...
sábado, 1 de febrero de 2014
Goddess Of Thunder (Short Story in Progress), Chapter 2
Second chapter of this little short story of mine, hope you'll enjoy it.IIBack where she belonged, the storm was rising again. The sound of the engine became her meditation mantra, perhaps she was ready to do it one more time. She knew which direction she had taken, moving ahead and pushing forward, she was meeting a recurring dead-end. As the mist unfolded in the horizon, there she was, the mountain,...