CouchSurfing ... another opportunity to practice and share

Loads of people all over the World are taking the advantage of this great idea: Couchsurfing.org.

Their first mission was "Participate in Creating a Better World, One Couch at a Time."

I suggest to check out this page to learn a little bit more: http://www.couchsurfing.org/about.html

I've just hosted my first CouchSurfer called Jeffery Walker. We spent great time together the last Sunday, and then he stayed until Tuesday morning.

For me it's another opportunity to share with different cultures, and practice English with native speakers (if they are from US as Jeff)

Puerto Madero

This is a great song from Kevin Johansen. He is the only one that could do that song, because he has these two cultures: Argentinean and American culture.

In this song he gets the chance of his condition .... he sings some Spanish sentences with American intonation, and that's amazing, very funny!

Puerto Madero

Puerto Madero, Madero Puerto, were going to Puerto Madero
To see a concierto...

And all the people that arent from here would like to come and stay
And all the people that are from here just want to get away
And all the people that arent from here would like to come and stay

Oh, I love el Obelisco

And all the people that are from here just want to go to Spain

And then San Telmo to buy some antiguos

Then to La Recoleta to see some conchetas

Were going to Puerto Madero, Madero Puerto, yeah

(I love las minifaldas on Esmeralda

And the sexy porteños trying to pick up the Argenteenagers.
How nice, the Argenteenagers
Tomando sol in the primavera de Buenos Aires...)

Then to Almagro to dance a few tangos,
then to El Tigre to buy lots of mimbre

And all the people...

(Oh, I love el Microcentro, las baldosas flojas para verte la cosa

Los adoquines, los excesos en Congreso, all the piquetes...)

And then Belgrano to buy an helado (de dulce de leche)
Then to Palermo to see some enfermos...

Yeah, were going to Puerto Madero, Madero Puerto

Lets go now!



--If you enjoy like me trying to play well-known songs in your guitar, try it here. Good luck!

Here, on the left side of the picture, is Valerie in Puerto Madero, reading about the history of the place. She is one of my friends. I went with her (and Ely and Miche) to Buenos Aires last year. She is fan of Kevin, and she showed me the meaning of this song ... I hadn't put attention to the lyric until she said it to me. Thank you Val :-)

Why in English?

First of all, I want to improve my English ... and this is another way to practice.  

I have thought something related with The languages a lot of times, and I've discussed it with some of my friends, and now, I want to share it here:   

Have you ever realized that some ideas are easier to explain in English, and others are easier in Spanish?     

It depends on the ability that each one has to use the tool, I mean, the language  

In my case, the I can explain better most of my ideas in Spanish ... and to explain the same ideas in another language I have to invest so much more time (more words, more time to think about how to explain it, more time to say the words, and so on)   

My question is: 

Perhaps, there is another language that we could create (and learn), that it could be a better tool, it could let us explain our ideas by a easier way! 

Perhaps our mind is limited by our power of expression...and we could be more clever if we have a better tool...

What do you think about it? Could it be?