Just for fun : silent E

25th nov

Iam agreed  I agree/I disagree /I don't agree


 a life-long friend , a lifelong hobby, etc
make up = confeccionar, inventar (incluso mentiras)
maquillar(se) y por el estilo
cervantes made Sancho panza up.Sancho panza is a fictional character.
Make up with = reconcialiarse con.
Mark hasn't made up with his wife, they are divorced


I grew up with my cousins, we all lived in a big house in the country.
My mother died when I was 5 , so my stepmother brought me up/ raised me/ reared me
Syntax can change things: 
Talking is better than fighting = It's better to talk than to fight -cf 'd/had better: We'd better talk(sin to)
to get on +o- with somone
forgetful?

Updated for the family :False friends department :Educated?

Let's start :
Schools EDUCATE people
(Till they are first literate and numerate, then trained, learned, and knowledgeable .............. for  details             see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU6YeH1nlvs   )

 So: An educated person has a good Academic record-and it shows!

They aren't uneducated.






Contrast: 

Parents BRING UP their children aka kids.

(Esp. In the USA,  we also say to  RAISE kids and to REAR kids)  
Parents(noun) are always parenting!(intransitive verb)! = bringing up kids= giving kids an upbringing =raisng kids =rearing kids.
(Cf"to father" a child =engendrar, to mother  a child = miar , probably overprtectively when they are grownup)

SO Their children can be Well-brought-up people....
(wellraised, wellreared,wellbred) They Behave well.





OR Badly-broughtup!A child like this is a BRAT!


If they are wellbroughtup aka wellreared aka wellraised ake well-bred
They have Good Manners.
They mind their manners.They are polite.

For example
It isnt't good manners, it's Bad Manners to pick your nose, yawn or scratch your head: 
You will be considered ill-bred! -or badly broughtup! -or rude ! - or impolite!
BBC :Beijingers told to mind their manners
"Beijing citizens have been told not to          ?           when talking to foreigners during the Olympics.
They have also been given a list of things not to ask overseas visitors...+ Subjects to avoid.../."

If you must yawn, etc cover your mouth!

 Check: http://www.acceptabletiquette.com

while  we're  on the subject of Etiquette, or How to behave, or Good manners:Here's a hit from the 50s. Disney put the music in the "PeterPan"film, but not the words:http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6958155265045111306&postID=6743532920590573126        

MORE  on the family 
To look like is for appearance, mostly
A lookalike is a synonym for a double, especialy talking about celebs.
to take after is inheriting some characteristic(s)
A "Chip off the old block " is someone identical,almost ,to their parent/forebear in appearance or behaviour or achievements , or all three.

Like father, like son, or like mother like daughter, sayings to indicate such

 Press image to go to more celeb "chips off the old block"

The telegraph captioned the above  as Brookln Beckham"TAKING AFTER"

his father(Beckham)in Football skills

Learning Suggestion : if this vocabulary is OTT for you, try personalizing it all :apply it to yourself, friends, relatives....
eg John's a chip off the old block, he and his father both...

Finally some disconnected odds and ends from PROES and desdobles.

I sell fish .He is selfish

reckless behaviour, etc

reckless 

Food Glorious Food! updated 17th Nov

A Few points:
Advice:
BEWARE: Food vocabulary is one of those endless specialized black holes that you can spend a lifetime learning! (And thank God we don't have the 3rdworld problem of starving, or only a little better,being undernourished, or ill-fed , and illnourished  at best.
Westerners are overfed)


And there are many, many, other things you need to learn, or to perfect!

So, my advice is
KNOW WHEN TO STOP!
AND
Learn to talk ABOUT food.
Probably more important than just
Vocabulary!
A few tips:
use category words, Eg for cooking methods:
Boiled,(+0r- hard- or soft-) Baked, Roast, SpitRoast, 
Fried, DeepFried, StirFried, Stewed, Broiled, Grilled, Barbecued, 
Toasted, Steamed, Stuffed,Poached....
DON'T expect to be able to give an EXACT equivalent, very often an exact equivalent DOES NOT EXIST!
It's usually better to DESCRIBE a dish than to try to translate the SPANISH NAME.
(example from English: Do you know what "Toad in the hole"(click 4 link) is ?
Let's translate the NAME of the dish: "SAPO EN EL HOYO"* Does this communicate ANYTHING?
Would YOU ask for that to eat!
No?
Well, the same thing happens if you talk about a "Cubanish ricish dish" or " Daymeal of the sleeve" (Genuine menu examples) for "Arroz a la cubana " or "menestra manchega":
English-Speakers will be lost!  

salt &pepper areSEASONINGS

Anyway, just as in Spanish, just as in Spain, the same DISH may be called differently even from one family to another , let alone one region to another, or over the Atlantic!
Some Spanish dishes are known by the Spanish name, eg Paella
(Historical note: olla podrida= cocido madrileno, but it isn't used in English anymore except as a literary figure. If you say it to the average English person they'll think you're talking about  something else)
Don't confuse, plate, dish, fabada is the national dish of asturias, and course, a six-course meal is typical at weddings
Alright, if you MUST know, "Turron" is "almond and honey -based sweetmeats typical at Christmas and somewhat akin to nougat".Now you know.It's beginning to be sold in England as Turron.

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TALKING about a (healthy/unhealthy etc)  DIET remember,  to go/be on a diet = to diet
Category words: Proteins, carbohydrates, Fats and oils, fibre, meat, fish, seafood, shellfish(included in seafood) , Fruit, nuts, eggs , dairy produce/products , veg.(=vegetables), pulses (included in veg.), pastas, bread, cakes &pastries, sweets (candies in USA)  & biscuits (cookies in usa) 
adj.s: whole , junk, fast, traditional, tinned, frozen, dried, preserved, fresh, oily, fatty, fattening, (fatty =contains fat, fattening=make you fat pastas are fattening, bacon is very fatty), Rich (=fuerte), hot (usually=spicey=picante), nourishing, wholesome , burned/burnt, overdone, underdone, raw (crude is unusual for food, but it's in "oliver" for the rhyme)
Pronunciation Dairy rhymes with scary, fairy, , don't confuse with Diary which rhymes with fire +y, 
  How often ..do you have ...?, how much...?   once a week etc 
   
 
( Pronunciation :  omit syllables: chocolate vegetable, camera,omelette different)


frutos secos= fruit and nuts: Fruit and nut chocolate

Pr :soup versus soap Soup rhymes with too, clue. true, soAp with hope, no, coat. THIS mistake causes much confusion."supper" rhymes with upper, mother, brother, lover, etc.
recipe: final "e" sounds /i:/. Doctors PRESCRIBE medicines. they give you a Prescription.
False Friends.
Preserved  foods, sometimes callled preserves are often preserved with PRESERVATIVES.(English cooks living in Spain nearly always cause amusement asking for these in shops)
You CONSERVE nature.There are special parks called "conservation Areas". Greens are usually conservationists. Conservationism.
Pickles are PICKLED food, preserved with vinegar.

Now look at the screen and ice age versions


British:
LINK :How To Make Toad In The Hole

Link to a long article on English breakfast

Dairy( not= Diary) produce/products:
Milk, cream cheese, yoghurt, etc

Pulses: beans, lebtils, chickpeas etc (included in veg.)
How often ..do you have ...?, how much...?  
once a week etc 
healthy/ unhealthy   
fattening/fatty   pastas are fattening, bacon is very fatty
 

points on health, fitness,etc

-If you are eating unhealthily, are undernourished(=badly or insufficiently fed,) etc , your HAIR can: look lifeless, lose its sheen, look dull.......women often complain about having "a bad-hair day!" 

-ache /eIk/ only compounds possible are headache, backache,earache, toothache, and ALL the informal  synonyms of stomachache: belly ache, tummyache, gutsache 

-
-Check: blood pressure    tension=tension, but with blood, NOT


-I am allergic to pollen  = I have an  ALLERGY TO POLLEN
 -
To get up zombie (= halfasleep) Zombie is too informal for exams



-Avoid brusque and sudden movements in pregnancy, etc
In pregnancy she had an unexpected craving for oysters in strawberry sauce


-To deal with a situation, =be able to manage it, respond adequately to it (approx=poder con)

he's INSANE,a
case of INSANITY

-remember: insane is a false friend,, =mad SANITY=mental health, sane =mentally healthy,=cuerdo




















































































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-hood, etc Various points-

Childhood

 motherhood

- HOOD suffix, for example, , childhhood:


Like Spanish, There is sometimes  the fact of being, sometimes the TIME of being, sometimes both, and more. Compare  Childhood , the  years that you ARE a child,=niñez, with Motherhood, = maternidad, the fact of being a mother
Let's look at words meaning a period of time in your life: with all these, you say "In my..In her.., In..etc
babyhood  (latin root + anglosaxon suffix .We can also  use infancy)
Childhood (, which males can call boyhood and females girlhood)
Adolescence (from the latin. cf an adolescent)
*youth1 ( , say, preteen or late teens to ? the word is used very elastically)
Adulthood (again, latin root +hood)( You can use manhood and womanhood  for reaching maturity, tho more often they are used with other meanings, maturity isnt used much as a period of life) manhood**, for men , and womanhood**, for women,are also sometimes used in this sense.
(+ or - early/late )middle age 
old age ( we seldom use the old-fashioned dotage)
When she  was a child.../.. is the same as In her childhood....or even, when the context is clear, just In childhood
When she was a child, she studied with the nuns= in her childhood, she studied with the nuns.
*Polysemy: The word Youth gives Spaniards problems: it also has a countable meaning2 as "young man "Male ONLY. 
Be careful, if you use "the youth" THIS is the meaning Englishspeakers will understand.
-As well as a period of a person's life, it also has the same collective general meaning 3, young people in general, all young people, male and female , WITH zero article (like faith, hope charity etc) meaning the same as La Juventud, in Spanish, and in modern English, typically taking a plural verb.
In his youth1 , the youth 2stayed in a Youth3 Hostel  
The adjective "youthful"(=juvenil) again is applied to bothsexes, and comes from meaning 1.
That actress only maintains her youthful face by plastic surgery
** more polysemy: manhood2 especially is used to translate the ideal characteristics of a man, = hombria, bravery, gravitas, authority, justice, or perhaps the somewhat more physically capable ones= redbloodednesss,virility (virilidad), and 3 via metaphorical extension, the word is used as a semi-tabu euphemism for the male genitalia . Womanhood is used much less in equivalent meanings.
-Other
You must have met "neighbourhood"(often shortened to 'hood in USA
A hoodie is a garment with a hood(=Capucha,  remeber little red riding-hood and the wolf), or a young neighbour(hood) person in a hoodie - , just normal or perhaps dangerous or vanadalistic
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