I got it!

No, it's not a miracle, it's called "my dad out of my house". Just kidding...the fact is that, wasn't it for certain "events" I can't fight against, I really WOULD write more often in my blog. It's true, as you can see.

I realizes my last post wasn't very successful...almost nobody wrote anything about it. Just a tip: click on the links, the trailers are worthy to be seen! You don't to read everything! Anyways, I think I got it! It, what? Well, why nobody reads my posts: they're too long! Nobody wants to read that much! So I'm here just to let a brief post on...language!

Everybody knows of course that every language has its own idioms, sayings and proverbs. So, when we study a foreign language, we can't rely on simple word-by-word translation from our first language to the foreign one, because the result might mean absolutely nothing in the foreign language!

Let's make it simple: an example! I was writing a comment to Emmanuele in my very blog and I wanted to use the Italian saying "prendere due piccioni con una fava" ("catch two pigeons with one bean", which doesn't make any sense in English), that corresponds to the Portuguese saying "matar dois coelhos com uma paulada so' " ("kill two rabbits with one blow of the stick", which also doesn't mean anything in English). So, word-by-word translation is quite tricky in these situations...the only way out is the INTERNET! There, we can find lots of sites on proverbs and translations of proverbs!

Do you think you would be able to express the idea of "prendere due piccioni con una fava" using an English saying? Wanna see the answer? Are you curious? Ok, then you can click here and simply have a look, or you can test your abilities with this quiz and letting us know your score afterwards (I got 10/10!!^.^)

Ok, I think I should go now, otherwise this post will be as huge as the others. Anyway, I wanted to wind up saying that idioms are one of the taughest and yet most interesting aspects of a language. Today I found out a very interesting English idiom: "beer goggles". Click to know what it is...

Movies

Ok, I won't apologize for my terrible delay this time, otherwise all my posts will look exactly the same. And I don't think this will be nice, will it? I spent the last 15 days in a quite chaotic situation here at home, but let's not talk about it otherwise I'll get upset, or even angry. Nope, this won't happen, we won't think about it: I finally have a few minutes for myself and I have to use them wisely ^.^

Let's talk about movies!! Yuppieeee! This is one of my favorite topics...this doesn't mean I'm always at cinema or always watching movies or that I remember all the movies I've seen or all the actors I like (faaaaaar from it, actually ^.^)...I wish my memory was better, but sadly I was born this way...=/

Well, anyways, yesterday, after ages of abstinence, I finally went to the movie theater again and it was to see an awesome movie with an awesome actor, whose name, by the way, I DO remeber: how could I forget the name of Jim Carrey? My memeory is bad, but not THAT BAD! ^.^ The movie was Fun with Dick and Jane (click to watch the trailer) and it was so funny and quite insightful...well, I mean, it's funny but not silly! It really has a point and it is not a ridiculous one: it is about losing your job and looking for another one. Well, maybe I'm just a little sensitive to the subject because, in spite of not having lost any jobs yet, I'm having a hard time in finding one! Well, you know, you always listen to people saying that it's hard finding a job, but if you're NOT looking for one, you don't really care about it, do you? I mean, I knew it was hard, but just now I'm actually realizing HOW hard it is. I'm not saying you should watch the movie with this kind of spirit: c'mon, it's a commedy, it's for you to laugh! But, after you have laughed a lot, you still have something to think over...this, in my opinion, is what made this movie worthy to be seen (and, sigh!, payed for).

After all this free advertisement of Jim Carrey's movie (sonypicture should pay me for that...this is just the job I was looking for ^.^), let's have a look at the other films that are coming out here in Brazil and that seem quite good (and by that I mean I'm planning to watch them).

1. Broken Flowers

2. Oliver Twist by Roman Polansky (the same director of "The Pianist"). I don't know about the movie, but I LOVED the book

3. The Producers, which seems to be quite funny, good cast, quite metaliterary (or something like that) and a good chance to practice my German listening skills!

4. Jarhead, by Sam Mendes (the same director of "American Beauty"). I don't like war films, but this one...the trailer is just great and I really feel like watching it. Besides, "American Beauty" is one of my favorite movies...

5. Ae Fond Kiss, European movies are known to be particularly deep and full of xxx scenes (^.^). Well, this movie seems to be interesting anyways, and I'd really like to watch it. It's being released here only now, but it was released as a dvd in Europe in 2005...European movies always get here in Brazil ages after its releasing everywhere else...

Ok, readers...I hope you haven't given up on me, in spite of not proving myself very constant on my posts lately. So, if you are still following me, please comment on the movies I suggested (you can watch the trailer by clicking on the title) or suggest some others for me (and others) to watch, ok?

PS. Elisa, my mail address is still the hotmail one. Please, send me an e-mail so that I can contact you again, ok?

Traveling

Again, ages of silence! By now I think you have understood I have problems with schedules...hehe! I always plan my day to do several things and I end up doing just half of them! This is very frustrating and at the end of the day I get very upset, so my boyfriend tells me: "You know, you should plen less things to do, this way you will certainly manage to do everything and you'll feel happy at the end of the day"...maybe he's right, but there are always so many things to do...

Anyways, this is not the point! Today I wanted to talk about travels... Why? Well, first of all to link this post to the previous one, which was also introducing this idea, but mainly because yesterday I went to the airport to take up my dad, who has just arrived in Brazil. Well, it was strange: my dad misse the flight and I had to wait 4 hours at the airport...I saw a lot of people going and coming...it was a funny feeling to see everybody with their suitcases. The fact is that, while I was looking at people going to the gates to take flight to Sao Paulo, Rio, Salvador, Miami, I was thinking: "It should be me taking this plane"! Why? Because I LOVE travelling, I love the feeling of the plane when it goes up the sky, when it doesn't touch the floor any more, when you are practically in no man's land.

Now it's your turn, readers: lately you've been proving me you're not as imaginary as I thought you were...let's keep up the good work, ok? Do you like travelling? why? where would you like to go (if you had money, time, vacations, etc.)? ( it doesn't need to be the US, it can be anywhere in the world thi time).

PS. Elisa, I don't know how else to contact you: can you please send me your e-mail address again? The one I have doesn't seem to work...