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LanguageTravelCulture: vacationing

LanguageTravelCulture: vacationing

vacationing

 

VACATIONING

TRAVELING

In order to introduce the "Basic Concept" about what "Travel" means, I'd say, it's "to go from one place to another" either traditionally by horseback, by bicycle or by train in our western culture.It meant that man had always used some form of traveling, way before our modern means of traveling today ! Imagine that we take for granted the modern railroad system, the Rapid Transit System in NYC, the Metro in Mexico City, in Caracas, in Paris and in so many other metropolitan areas in the world. There is also the AMTRAK rail service all throughout the U.S interconnecting people from different cities and entire families. And then, we have come to know for most of us of a certain age, the automobile on the streets and that includes all the cars, trucks, city buses, and deluxe buses with beds and toilet service. Notice that when man was using camel and horseback, there was only dirt road; and there was no knowledge of technological, sophisticated means

Learning a new Language

Learning a new language is a personal endeavor. It has several components and ingredients, one of which is: motivation, a time commitment, a learning format, an act of the will and a lot of practice. Anyone at any age has this amazing opportunity, that's one of the great thing about it. I'm sure we've all heard throughout our "childhood years " and by the way, they were our best years ever, that: "you can't teach an old parrot to talk ." Well, actually, that's wrong ! Totally wrong ! Believe me! Personally, I had the highest pleasure to learn new languages after my teenage years. In my case, I always used multiple ways of picking up new words in another language. Consider the vast and fresh choices that we always have around us, for one: let's use our inquisitive skills by reading everything available within our sight. " " While Traveling " It can happen on the road traveling through a different country and reading the traffic