The importance of learning other languages

By Juan Tutasi

There are different kinds of language in this world and learning more as you can will help you in many ways of your life for example in the job, or meeting people from other countries . Learning another language improves your abilities to use your first language and explore other cultures more succesfully. But trying to learn another language is not always easy, so how much difficult is to learn another language different from our mother tongue?
The answer depends on ther years and dedication you devote learning these languages, but in fact there is another factor that helps us or not learning some types of languages. These are the Family languages:


For example, if our mother tongue is the Spanish or any latin language, we will learn easier and faster another latin languages because they are very similar, and languages like Chinese , Deutsch or others will be more difficult, although they have each other some common words. The most important language nowadays is the English. English began famous since then 1st World War. The United States of American and Britain, were the countries with more colonies, like Australia and many territories of Africa. This is the reason why English has a lot of speakers around the world. English is a obligatory subject in most of schools, highschools and universities of the world. The English is the franc language nowadays and it's very useful because it is talked in every country. But not everybody speaks English, around 75% of the world's population don't speak any word of English.
Learning languages opens doors to other cultures and gives the learner an experience of the world that goes deeper than the average tourist trip. It can also provides a key to the global workplace.

Why is it important for children to learn languages?
·Learning a foreign language makes our minds stronger and more flexible.
-It improves our chances of employment.
-You feel really good when you can speak many different languages.
-Languages connect the world and have the potential to make it a more peaceful place.
-It is used in business and for pleasure of communication.
-It develops a cultural understanding and makes better relationships with others.
-Language learning helps brain power and improves your language skills.

Why is it important employers know languages?
-Research has shown that using language skills in business opens the door to a wide range of economic, social and personal benefits.
- A lot of employers are looking for employ people with conversational language skills
-Customers addressed in their mother tongue are much more likely to do business with you.
-Studying a foreign language improves your oral and written skills in English too, and this also helps to develop key communication skills, that are crucial in the job.
-English, French and German are still the most useful languages, Spanish is increasing his importance around the world

These are some of the reasons why it is important to learn languges. Why don't you try it?

Lucky Diamond Rich 


By Claudia Beltran

Lucky Diamond Rich holds the guiness world record of the most tattooed man in the world. He was born in New Zeland in 1971 and he hold the record in 2006. He is cent percent tatooed, from head to toes including his foreskin, mouth, ears and eyelids. His occupation is perfomance artist  and street performer. He started because when he was young he read about the most tattooed men and woman. His first tattoo were juggling clubs tattooed on his hip. 

Giant GeorgeBy Andrea Parisca


In 2010 Giant George broke the Guiness World Records for being the tallest dog in the world. Giant George is a Great Dane measuring up to 1 meter and 9 centimeters of height. This massive dog is the pride and joy of David Nasser, the owner. David Nasser and Giant George live in Tuscan, Arizona in the United States. Giant Gorge was born on November 17, 2005. He has the privalige of sleeping on a queen-sized bed and enjoys riding in his golf cart around the neighborhood.

So far, this large fellow has made appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Live with Regis and Kelly and The Guiness World Records book. While flying to meet Oprah, George got an entire row of three seats to himself. Unfortunately, George no longer holds the tallest dog in the world record. Zues, another friendly dog, reaches only one inch taller than George, leaving poor George in the shadows of fame. But not to worry, because Giant George will not be forgotten. His owners have created a website and even wrote a book about Giant George. This website offers merchandise featuring Giant George. If your in need of any Giant George reminders you can shop right off of the website, which offers everything from t-shirts to mugs.

Hotel terraces

By Génesis Mendoza

People who live in Barcelona value hotel terraces less than tourists. "Una Vista d’Hotel" was a new initiative which consisted of opening 36 hotel terraces in the city to the local population freely for five days, from 3rd to 7th May. "A Vista Hotel" was the first which began this experience because they think that it is a good way to collect money. This only was for a limited time, because it costs a lot of money. The hotels which participated in it were: the Mandarin Oriental, W Barcelona, ME Barcelona, Casa Fuster, Pulitzer, and the new Barceló Raval Hotel OHLA, among many others.

Apart from enjoying the view or the fresh air, each terrace of Barcelona also has a cultural environment because they offer events and activities, for example, films, book presentations,… Many hotels offered Mediterranean drinks, the most exotic and healthy fruit drinks or cocktails without alcohol. Drinks were different each day and in each terrace. Apart from the different drinks, also people had the pleasure of enjoying a variety of snacks, lunches and dinners accompanied by fine wines, drinks and evening cocktails prepared especially for the occasion. Furthermore, a photo competition was organised for people who took part in these activities. They could win technological gadgets and some nights in a hotel. There were three categories: one for the picture which best illustrates the city from a terrace, another for the best picture of one of the terraces and the third for the picture which best captures the atmosphere of the terrace.

Lorca earthquake

By Andrea Bertrán

Eight people were killed and dozens injured after two earthquakes shook the Murcia town of Lorca on 11th May 2011. Hundreds of people couldn’t come back to their houses and they had to stay at the camps.

Some churches and the castle of the town were affected by the earthquake.

The first, at 5.05pm, measured 4.4 on the Richter scale. It was followed by a stronger one of 5.2 shortly before 7pm.

It hadn't happened an event like that in 30 years time.

All the schools remained closed in Murcia in the following days.

The government will take care of the rebuilding of the affected buildings.

After this tragedy, several entities are arranging positive events to raise money to help the victims.

Osama Bin Laden’s murder

By Pere Cases

Usāma bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Lādin (Osama Bin Laden) was the world’s most searched terrorist, creator of Al-Qaeda terrorist group, the most powerful terrorist group. Bin Laden was responsible for many attacks against the USA and other western countries, including attacks in U.S.A., embassies of Kenya and Tanzania. Before his murder, there was a reward of fifty millions dollars.

On May 1st 2011, it was reported that Osama bin Laden died during a military action. The identity of Bin Laden was confirmed by comparing DNA samples of his lifeless body to his sister's DNA. The body was taken by members of U.S.A. army after the attack and they kept it. That same day President Obama spoke to the nation, after the confirmation from U.S.A. officials that Osama bin Laden had died in a secret operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a city 50 kilometers northeast of Islamabad and 150 kilometers east of Peshawar. Obama said the operation was done by a small group who acted under his orders.

Another volcano

By Joana Roig

The clouds of ashes of the Grimsvötn volcano (Island) might arrive today or tomorrow in Ireland and in UK if the metorological conditions don't change.

Nowadays it is possible to do reliable predictions in 48 hours time and know if this cloud will affect other places in Europe, because meteorological conditions are changing all over the day, and because they haven't got a lot of information about the volume and denseness of the ash. There was a meeting of the group of crisis: the airports, the airlines, the national aviation authorities and the Europe Agency for the security in the Aereal navigation.

These advices will establish three zones (red, blue or black) depending on the cloud level. With this information they will decide if it's safe to fly.

The volcano can change the trip of Barça to Wembley if the aerial space is affected by the cloud.