I think the disappearance of papers is a most distressing tendency. But it has one’s good sides. The main of them – environmental protection, because you know pulp-and-paper industry damage to the environment. The less paper use the less forest cut down. Do you agree with me?

P.S When I was a schoolgirl I worked in the ecological unit:)

Maria

by the way, thanks for ESL – team hard working !

I got the massage you are trying to get across. Infact ,starting yesterday, Reading newspaper every single day is my task and making a habit out of it is my religion. clearly ,you are very well-read,no question about that. And ,I guess when you mention that you have been reading papers since always ,you are alluding that we must do so in order to get a better grasp of your mother tongue. Thanks bro ;as always ,I follow your lead.

Thanks Jeff and asociate for helping me snap out of it and realize such a blissful ignorance I was . Of course ,before joining you guys.

… so, Perham… if you were willing to take a look closier in this matter, you should check it out the ENGLISH CAFE # 142 , which one make some relative to the modal verb ( would).

I know it is quite a bit different of the subject in question ( would be X were /was ) , but you might be able to figure out what`s the differences are between the case of either use of it.

thanks a lot for you interest in lift up the doubt about this topic.

best regards,
preto.

So as I may understand reading your comment you are living in the beautiful city?. Tell us, is it as Jeff has told us so frecuently?

Any way, you are very wellcome to this place and I agree with you that there are a lot of spaniards learning English and wiriting in this blog. Why?
May be the mouth to mouth is a good way of sharing good news and we are very fond to do this way of telling everybody how good ESL is.

Nearly since three years I have been informing everybody here in Madrid that if they want to learn English propperly they have to listened to ESL POD, and doing that
they would have also great fun what is even quite important.

I think also that we spaniards are very fond to debate about everything, and this is a good place to do it as Lucy and Jeff post to interest points continuously.

See you soon.

In Brasil we still have this paperboys that jeff told about it; despite the growth majority has been getting born with a computer on the lap, there still being those who are growing older and still lover from physical newspaper.

By the way, jeff… thanks a lot for provide us with such a good memories from yours, I really enjoy a lot to hear them from you.
Actually, I was missing it alredy!

ELS Team have a good week!
preto.

Actually, we all still not so sure about whether which preposition we should use at certain ordinary expressions in day to day speeches. But as you pointed it out, the KEY point is not atempt to fit a foreing language ( the second one you start to learn) into our own language’s rules, which cause sometimes a tight in our heads.

As you also said right above… it is pretty wisely to use our native language to learn a second language like as a bridge of comprehension, So we gotta think in one sentence as a whole sense and not word by word since in english a single word usually has a different meaning than if it was placed inside of a expression.

Anyway, I welcome perham… to our eslblog and welcome also to Loreto to the eslpodcast. I hope you like so much of the eslpod and if it do, tell some else about it. By doing this you guys will be prevent us to have a such horrible nightmare or apocalypse that pedro just predicted it.

Well, however, I hope this never turn out!

best regards to all of you members of eslblog,
preto.

I’m Spaniard too, and I’m learning English like you, although it seems you know quite more than me.

Nice to meet you Loreto. I hope to read soon your comments.

Take care.