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Algo sobre Kenneth Fach Something About Kenneth Fach

¡Hola! ¿Qué tal? ¿Cómo te va?
Hello! What’s up? How’s it going?

Me encanta el idioma español, y por eso fui a universidad para ganar mi licenciado y mi maestría en español. Viví en Paraguay, y en Mexico, y desde mi niñez, he tenido muchas oportunidades de escuchar y usar el idioma español. Me gustaría conocer otro gente de habla español tambien. Soy traductor, profesor privado de español, escritor.

I live the Spanish language very much, and therefore, I went to the university to earn my B.A. and my M.A. in Spanish. I lived in Paraguay, and Mexico, and since my childhood, I have had many opportunities to listen and use the Spanish language. I would like to know other Spanish-speaking people, also. I am a translator, private Spanish teacher, and writer.

Lo que me da mucho placer es cultivar verduras y otras cosas en mi jardín, leer blogs de otros, y crear artículos de blogs. También, a mi me gusta explorar la naturaleza, contemplarla, y acampar con mi familia y amigos. Donde vivo, hay muchos bosques, y parques estatales. Estoy muy agradecido por la obra buena y bella del Creador de luces.

What gives me much pleasure is growing greens and other things in my garden, read blogs from others, and create blog posts. Also, I like exploring nature, contemplating it, and camping with my family and friends. Where I live, there are a lot of forests and state parks. I am very grateful for the good and beautiful work of the Creator of lights!

Me encuentro en el red, o sea, el internet, día tras día buscando sitios web donde está representado el idioma español. Busco programas de afiliación, puesto que quiero mejorar mi situación financiera, y tener un exitoso negocios online que puede beneficiar a otros. Puesto que soy una persona muy curiosa, busco oportunidades de conocer otros y aprender sobre sus culturas, sus perspectivas de la vida, sus actividades. Recibo mucha inspiración de otras personas, y la inspiración es algo me me lleva adelante. Soy un activo participante en Twitter, Facebook, HelloHello, WordPress, y otros sitios.

I find myself on the web, o rather, the internet, day after day searching websites where the Spanish language is represented. I search affiliate programs, since I want to better my financial situation, and have a successful online business that can benefit others. Since I am a very curious person, I look for opportunities to know others, learn about their cultures, their perspectives on life, and their activities. I receive much inspiration from other people, and inspiration is something that takes me forward. I am an active participant on Twitter, Facebook, HelloHello, and WordPress, among other sites.

Si hablas el español, me gustaría chatear contigo, y aprender nuevos modismos, y maneras de hablar.

If you speak Spanish, I would like to chat with you, and learn new expresions and forms of speaking.

Add comment November 17, 2009

Como dominar los acentos ortográficos en español

Para la gente de habla inglés, hay un nuevo sistema de acentos ortográficos que no se encuentra en el idioma inglés. No es dificil entender, y con la práctica, se puede escribir de una manera muy bien. Hay muchos hispanohablantes que omiten los acentos ortográficos en los lugares, o sea, las sílabas de las palabras que requieren los acentos escritos. Todas las palabras tienen acento. Unas lo llevan escrito y otras no.

Para todos, los hispanohablantes y los de habla inglés, voy a resumir las reglas sobre el uso de los acentos ortográficos en el idioma español.

Primero, ¿Por qué pongo mucho importancia sobre los acentos? Bueno, las palabras con acentos puestos sobre la letra correcta, pueden tener un significado distinto de las palabras que no llevan acentos ortográficos. Por ejemplo, la palabra, más, versus la palabra, mas. En la primera palabra, más, quiere decir la adición, o crecimiento de algo, la necesidad de añadir otras cosas a la lista, o agrupación. En la segunda palabra, o ejemplo, mas, quiere decir, pero. Se usa mas en el sentido de, “mas no puede ir solo.“
Entonces, para no confudir los lectores, es imprescindible dominar el sistema de sílabas acentuadas si alguien va a escribir en el idioma español, francés, portugués u otras idiomas también.

Para poner énfasis sobre una sílaba, se añade un acento ortográfico sobre un vocal de la sílaba. Cada sílaba debe tener a lo mejor un vocal. Es como el vocal tiene voz para la sílaba acentuada de la palabra. Hay ciertas reglas que qobiernan el uso de los acentos ortográficos.

La mayoría de las palabras en el español son palabras graves. Las palabras graves llevan acentos ortográficos sobre la penúltima sílaba si las palabras no terminan en “n“ o “s“, o un vocal. Ejemplos: tengo, tienes, vamos, camina, caja, casa.

Las palabras agudas llevan el acento ortográfico sobre la última sílaba, si la sílaba termina en “n“, “s“, o uno de los cinco vocales. Algunos ejemplos son los verbos en la forma pretérito, típicamente, como por ejemplo, comió, salí, y mas. También las palabras que terminan en la letra “n“, por ejemplo, televisión, decisión, preparación.

Las palabras esdrújulas siempre llevan el acento ortográfico sobre la antepenúltima sílaba. Hay menos palabras esdrújulas en el español. Ejemplos son, búscalo, lávalo, trágico, magnífico.

Todas las palabras interrogativas llevan acentos ortográficos.

Cuando se emplea correctamente el sistema de acentos ortográficos, entonces, se puede escribir mejor, y ser mejor entendido.

Add comment November 16, 2009

This is the day!

Mom and dad always told me, “this is the day.” They told me this to give me a sense of comfort, and trust, the the workings of something higher than myself. My parents were always God-loving, and God-fearing. They always looked up and gave gratitude. They were always positive. Even now, mom keeps a positive outlook on everything. She only sees the good, and as a result of that attitude and perspective on life, she always has what she needs, wants, and is healthy and happy. She is always filled with gratitude, no matter what appears before her or around her. Her world, just like dad’s is a harmoniously display of right activity, with right results.

Because of my upbringing, and the positive environment I have always been associated with, I too, can say, with trust and certainly, that “this is the day.” This is a beautiful day! This day is an open door to so many possibilities for the demonstration of good. Not just for me, but for others as well. Good is a natural element in the universe. It is as necessary to existence as flour is to bread. It is like the water we need to drink daily. Good is also a daily characteristic that does not come and go, but comes and stays as a joyous inhabitant in our circle. I can say, just like dad and mom, that this is the day, because good is here in this day, and this day belongs to good.

A while back, I was trying to start a career in real estate sales, and encountered my share of challenges, and obstacles along the way. Since I relocated back to my familiar town, I needed a place to stay until I was able to get on my own feet. Every day, I came back from work, filled with gratitude the for the, but also, disappointed in that I had not made a sale, and therefore, I saw no money. Mom and dad saw something that I should have seen, but did not always acknowledge, and that is that, this is the day in which I will make it in my new career. This is the day that will open up something wonderful for me. This is the day that I had been waiting for. No, they were not talking only about the money that would come in, but rather, something much higher than that. I began to see with certainty that everyday is the day. I dwelled on that perspective. As a result, I started developing a database of wonderful and interested customers. I started to get listings, and sell homes. I met the need for some people in the community who needed housing, or who needed to sell their home in order to relocate or move into a more suitable dwelling.

Nothing changed about what I was doing to grow my business. I was doing everything right. I only had to change my mental standing, and recognize the goodness, wonder, and beauty of everyday. I had to hold on to a sense of trust in something spiritual, divine, lovely, something beyond the thought of making money in a new career. I began to see the harvest, and I picked what was rightfully mine.

Although, I had to leave the community for family reasons, and because of Hurricane Ivan, and go back to the part of the state where I had been living, I will always be grateful for the lessons of gratitude, and trust that mom and dad showed me while starting out in a new activity, in an old, but familiar town. I am inspired and grateful for their loving tidbits of wisdom that they gave to me.

We pass through this existence learning, learning, and relearning. We take tests, sometimes hard tests, and sometimes we make bad grades, or fail. However, we continue progressing, and taking more tests. We pass many of them, and continue learning, relearning, and growing. We don’t do this alone, but with others, maybe not with others always physically present, but as a universal family, we are together, and experiencing the richness of every day.

This is the day. There is an abundance of light for everyone in this day. Light does not discriminate, and divide. Where the sun shines, it shine on all of us equally. It is a glorious light. This is your day, and my day. See you in the light!

Add comment November 13, 2009

Texting from my Boost Mobile Phone

Here I am, praising this glorious autumn day in my community of Tallahassee, Florida. Today, I accomplished the work of gardening, online writings, blog updating, participating in a conference, and taking ample time during and between these activities to send and receive text messages from my i335 Boost Mobile phone. Texting is valuable to me, and my favorite part of using a cell phone.

I like my phone, and the affordable, unlimited Boost Mobile plan that I have. I like to be free from contracts, credit checks, and postpaid arrangements. A prepaid plan gives me the liberty that I need, and deserve. I have unlimited talk, text, walkie talkie, and web, for only $50 a month, prepaid. I became smart when I left the costly postpaid Sprint, Tmobile, Cingular, and Alltel plans.

To me, the best plan, phone and service I have had yet, has been Boost Mobile. I am grateful for Boost Mobile and its unlimited prepaid plan. I am a happy, satisfied customer and user of this important cell phone tool. I will continue to text from my phone, and texting is the most important reason for having a cell phone, in my world. I text not only others, but, I text messages to myself. I text myself tasks that I need to complete, information I want to lock and save on my phone for ready reference, and ideas that I want to utilize. My texting world is big, and valuable to me. It is why I like my Boost Mobile cell phone unlimited plan.

1 comment November 8, 2009

How my garden is growing

There is a hymn that starts out like this: “A grateful heart a garden is, where there is always room for every lovely Godlike grace to come to perfect bloom.” CS Hymnal.

This morning, early, as I went into my backyard vegetable garden, outside of Tallahassee, Florida, I thought about the words of that spiritual song. I had a big, grateful heart. My heart was filled with gratitud for the beauty, and productivity of my garden, which has been blessing us with an abundant crop of pumpkin squash, which does not seem to have an end in sight. Other plants have given us an abundance of good as well, such as basil, peppers, mint, and so much more. My heart is filled with so much gratitude, which I have shared with others in the form of the results of my work in the garden, or rather, the rich soil of the garden allowing the element of abundance to occur.

What added to this grateful heart was the harmony of this autumn day, here in Tallahassee, Florida, with a crisp, coolness, in the air, and the purity of the blue in the sky. It was a day for walking, and admiring the beauty of surroundings. I did just that.

Now, I have prepared part of the garden soil for a new garden, a winter garden. Plants have come forth, and already, we have more results of the work done, and the gratitude expressed. Gratitude breeds more gratitude, and like a fountain, it keeps flowing forth. It is all good. A garden is a symbol of good. I feel that good when I am in my garden. It is a penetrating, inspiring good.

I have found the way. It is the way of the gardener. What a grateful heart the gardener has from season to season. Think of that grateful heart next time someone offers you some produce from a garden, or you walk or drive by someone’s home garden. The earth is filled with goodness, and blessings. I am grateful for the land that I live on here in north Florida, close to Tallahassee.

From one grateful heart to another! The kingdom is already here. We can say, “Thy kingdom come,” and mean it. That kingdom is in our heart of gratitude. I love the unfolding creation and the children of God who occupy it. It is heaven on earth, and I am reminded that the Guarani Indians of Paraguay have always believed that heaven on earth is a realistic possibility. The “land without evil” here on earth was a central element of their religious, moral, thought system.

My land without evil is right here, near Tallahassee, Florida, in a green spot in back of my home.

Will you tell me about your heaven on earth, as I would be very grateful to listen to other ideas.

Add comment November 8, 2009


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