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گرگ و بره / Wolf and lamb

Poema 18, del libro Espantapájaros (1932), de Oliverio Girondo


Llorar a lágrima viva. Llorar a chorros. Llorar la digestión. Llorar el sueño. Llorar ante las puertas y los puertos. Llorar de amabilidad y de amarillo.

Abrir las canillas, las compuertas del llanto. Empaparnos el alma, la camiseta. Inundar las veredas y los paseos, y salvarnos, a nado, de nuestro llanto.

Asistir a los cursos de antropología, llorando. Festejar los cumpleaños familiares, llorando. Atravesar el África, llorando. Llorar como un cacuy, como un cocodrilo… si es verdad que los cacuyes y los cocodrilos no dejan nunca de llorar.

Llorarlo todo, pero llorarlo bien. Llorarlo con la nariz, con las rodillas. Llorarlo por el ombligo, por la boca.

Llorar de amor, de hastío, de alegría. Llorar de frac, de flato, de flacura. Llorar improvisando, de memoria. ¡Llorar todo el insomnio y todo el día!


Spanish from Buenos Aires

Sonidos de Buenos Aires: poema de Oliverio Girondo

Voici l'épisode avec dans le lien google doc, le script ainsi que les questions/réponses sur le texte:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XBFHq8n2I5N7kBA-CNAmAUuWsiov8y84RgvVSvOv6H8/edit?usp=sharing

Bonne écoute!


Améliorez votre compréhension orale en français! 

La journée à la plage de Marc et Sophie (A2)

Examples of a range of more advanced or more descriptive words and phrases that you can use as an alternative for "important"

Never at a Loss for Words

Episode 4 - Synonyms for "important"

Today's piece of vocabulary is a phrasal verb that we can use for transferring or connecting calls to other people in our company. That phrasal verb is "put through". I hope you find this podcast useful!

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

Sorry, you're through to the wrong person. 

An annual event involving dirt, beer and cash once again drew dozens of competitors to a ski resort in Maine on October 12.

More than 30 couples competed in the North American Wife Carrying Championship, a 254-meter race during which competitors splash through water, jump over logs and trudge through mud — all while carrying their partner on their backs or shoulders.

The event began in Finland, with the first official event taking place in 1992. It has grown in popularity since then — the World Championship is held annually in the region of Sonkajärvi, and the North American Championship has taken place in Maine every year since 1999.

Traditionally, the Finnish event involved male competitors carrying a woman. At the competition in Maine, couples didn't have to be married to compete, nor did they have to be a man and a woman.

One participant — the carrier — was dressed as Mr Incredible, while his "wife" was dressed in pink. They and others were cheered on by crowds on both sides of the course at Sunday River ski resort.

Most of the participants use a technique in which the "wife" is carried like a backpack — upside down — to keep their arms free as they run. Wearing smiles and grimaces, competitors end up wet and muddy.

The champion leaves with the weight of the "wife" in beer and five times their weight in cash. To estimate the amount they win, the winning partner is put on one side of a see-saw-like scale that organizers balance out on the other side with cases of beer.

"We come each year for the fun," said Wade Porterfield of Cuba, New York, who competed with his wife, Sara Porterfield. "There is really a low chance of us winning. Pretty much everybody cheers everybody on and it's a blast."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Couples Compete in US Wife-Carrying Competition

This episode introduces three idioms that use the word cat. Listen to the examples to hear how to use them. Please send me a message if you would like a copy of the audio script.

Idiom Corner

Cat 

IELTS SPEAKING PART 1 - Topic - Musical instruments:

Here are the 4 questions about this topic:

Q. Which instrument do you like listening to the most? [Why?]
Q. Have you ever learned to play a musical instrument? [Which one?]
Q. Do you think children should learn to play a musical instrument at school? [Why/Why not?]
Q. How easy would it be to learn to play an instrument without a teacher? [Why?]

In the podcast you'll hear some ideas to support your IELTS development.

Come and join my classes if you want to achieve some of your IELTS speaking goals and we'll develop your individual plan!

Check out my student's comments to get the idea of what I am like as a teacher.

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IELTS-SPEAKING 8-9 BAND IS POSSIBLE. DAILY SPEAKING PRACTICE PART 1,2 & 3. Listen daily.

IELTS SPEAKING PART 1 - Topic - Musical instruments:

LOS CHILES MEXICANOS 1.

En México todo el mundo, o casi todo el mundo, come chile. Sin importar esto, la cocina del chile es, estrictamente hablando, nacional. Es lo que nos define, aunque no de un modo exclusivo, frente a otras dietas y cocinas del mundo.

La multiplicidad de moles, muchos de ellos, como hemos visto, ya de uso corriente entre los antiguos mexicanos, aun cuando todavía no fueran “transmutados” por la presencia de los ingredientes traídos por los españoles, es formidable. Hay mole amarillito; mole negro, mole de olla, mole verde, mole de hierbas, pipián, manchamanteles, xoloztle, chorreado, embarrado, poblano, chimole…

Y en cuanto a las salsas…

Un recuento del Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares consigna más de cuarenta preparadas únicamente con chiles de fácil adquisición en el mercado. Nada más con el chile serrano pueden hacerse nueve salsas distintas: cruda, cocida, frita, asada, verde, roja, “mexicana” etc., según la enumeración hecha por ese omnívoro historiador de las comidas que es José N. lturriaga; añadiríamos las variaciones que se pueden lograr si a cada una de ellas se le añade o no ajo, o cebolla, o cilantro, según.

Por otra parte, el chile en México ha llegado a ser casi un símbolo patrio. Los mexicanos no sólo lo emplean en la mayoría de los platillos que consumen, sino que se identifican vital, ontológicamente con él.

La diversidad y la riqueza de los platillos preparados con este producto es impresionante, desde los típicos y consistentes moles de Puebla, Oaxaca y Yucatán, para hablar sólo de los más conocidos, hasta las refinadas salsas y adobos del Estado de México, Guadalajara o San Luis Potosí, la variedad de gustos, sabores e ingredientes que en las cocinas del país se emplean en conjunción con los diferentes chiles ha permitido el desarrollo de una gastronomía característica, sensual e incitante, de un gusto peculiar, que no obstante las transformaciones y las influencias, conserva una tónica particular, debida...

