Antonio Machado nació en Sevilla, España en 1857 y es uno de los poetas más leídos todavía. Fue profesor de francés y se casó con Leonor Izquierdo en 1909. Ella murió de tuberculosis en 1912, dejándolo consumido en una gran depresión que lo llevaría a escribir un grupo de poemas.

Machado también llegó a ser miembro de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española, la institucion que regula el buen uso del idioma español, por lo que su poesía es muy importante ya que destaca estos valores.

Él creía que la poesía se debe hablar desde el corazón. De allí su más conocido poema "Proverbios y cantares XXIX" en Campos de Castilla. que ha servido de inspiración para cantantes modernos como Joan Manuel Serrat, español, quien canta sus versos ahora acompañados de música. Este poema habla de un poeta que está muriendo lejos de su país preocupado por su paso por esta vida. Aquí está un extracto de ese poema:

Caminante, son tus huellas¹
el camino y nada más;
Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda² que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante no hay camino
sino estelas³ en la mar.

¹huellas- footprints
²senda- trail
³estelas- wakes of a boat in the water

Teniendo este poema en mente, escribe tus propias ideas para describir como quieres vivir para que tu paso por ella deje huellas (footprints).

Your response must contain at least 5 detailed and complete sentences in Spanish.

You will be graded on (a) appropriate use of grammar and vocabulary, (b) completeness and detail of the response, and (c) pronunciation.

Why do boys not tell women how there feeling

Carla: ayer te mandé un correo electrónico. ¿lo jaime: sí, recibí tu correo electrónico. a. mandaste b. recibieron c. mandaron d. recibiste

Becoming a lifelong learner learning a language opens doors to a world of opportunity. of course, in order to really benefit from your studies, you’ll need to do more than just complete assignments. you’ll need to set habits that will tie you to spanish and its cultures even beyond the classroom. students who become lifelong learners of spanish have some basic characteristics and habits that you should develop if you want to get the most from your experience learning spanish. lifelong learners: have friends with whom they regularly converse in the target language. (this could be friends in school, neighbors or friends in the community.) regularly get information from target language sources (newspapers, magazines, internet spanish related news group (with parent’s approval), tv programs, radio, etc. that are produced by and for native speakers.) participate in activities of the target culture (celebrating holidays, seeing movies or plays of/in the target culture, preparing or eating dishes from the target culture, reading books or magazines from the target culture, etc.) someone who has developed these habits is on the way to becoming a lifelong learner. these types of habits reinforce a strong connection to the language and culture and develop a love and better understanding of that culture. think for a minute about the resources available. do you have friends who are native spanish speakers? do you ever watch spanish channels on television? you can probably think of several online sources. maybe you have some stores or restaurants in your community that are owned or frequented by spanish speakers. also think about when you could participate in spanish-related activities on a regular basis—remember that it’s setting the habits that will make the most difference. using the table below as a guideline, write out a plan for starting new habits. for the language or culture resources column, try to identify three different resources: 1. a friend or contact 2. an information source, and 3. a cultural activity. in the what i will do column, describe as specifically as you can what you will do. and in the when i will do it column, write when you plan on doing these activities. see the sample below to see how you might fill out your own table. you will have opportunities to follow up and report on your regular practice of engaging spanish resources close to home. you will be asked in a follow up assignment to report on what you have done.