3-13

Question 1

Have you had a good week?

Answer 1

¿has pasado una buena semana?

Question 2

How are you feeling now?

Answer 2

¿cómo te encuentras ahora? (encontrarse bien/mal = to feel / be well / not well)

Question 3

We received an email this week from a listener who wants to know how we are doing with our New Year’s resolutions.

Answer 3

Hemos recibido un correo esta semana de un oyente que quiere saber qué tal llevamos nuestros buenos propósitos de año nuevo. (¿qué tal llevamos… ? = how we are doing with…?)

Question 4

How are you doing with them?

Answer 4

¿qué tal los llevas tú?

Question 5

I have to admit that I haven’t quit smoking yet, but I smoke less.

Answer 5

Tengo que admitir que aún no he dejado de fumar, pero fumo menos. (aún no = not yet)

Question 6

Quite good with respect to the gym and the pool, but I could go a little more ‘frequently’.

Answer 6

Bastante bien con lo del gimnasio y de la piscina, pero podría ir un poco más ‘frecuentemente’.

Question 7

three or four times a week instead of once or twice!

Answer 7

¡tres o cuatro veces a la semana en vez de una o dos!

Question 8

Not a bad start, Mark.

Answer 8

No es un mal comienzo, Mark.

Question 9

Well, this week we are going to talk a little about social networks.

Answer 9

Pues esta semana vamos a hablar un poco de las redes sociales.

Question 10

Facebook is a social network that allows you to stay in touch with your friends through messages, photos and videos that you can share with your friends, or with your contacts.

Answer 10

Facebook es una red social que te permite estar en contacto con tus amigos a través de mensajes, fotos y videos que puedes compartir con tus amigos, o con tus contactos.

Question 11

I like it up to a certain point.

Answer 11

Me gusta hasta cierto punto.

Question 12

I like the fact that I can get in touch with my old friends that I haven’t seen for a long time.

Answer 12

Me gusta el hecho de que pueda ponerme en contacto con mis viejos amigos que no veo desde hace mucho tiempo.

Question 13

By the way, I am in contact with my classmates from my childhood, and through Facebook, they have invited me to a dinner to meet again, to chat…

Answer 13

Por cierto, estoy en contacto con mis compañeros de clase de mi infancia, y a través de Facebook, me han invitado a una cena para reencontrarnos, para charlar.. (compañero = companion/ partner, but by itself can also mean classmate)

Question 14

What do you really think of Facebook?

Answer 14

¿Qué opinas, realmente, de Facebook?

Question 15

My friends are the people I work with, or are family, or are friends.

Answer 15

Mis amigos son las personas con las cuales trabajo, o son familiares, o son amigos.

Question 16

However, on Facebook there are always many people who add you without even knowing you.

Answer 16

Sin embargo, en Facebook siempre hay mucha gente que te añade sin apenas conocerte. (Apenas = barely/hardly; añadir = to add)

Question 17

I prefer Facebook to be something private between me and my friends.

Answer 17

Prefiero que Facebook sea algo privado entre mis amigos y yo.

Question 18

Sometimes it’s hard to reject a person who wants to be your friend. There are people who have a lot of added contacts because they accept everyone they meet.

Answer 18

A veces cuesta rechazar a una persona que quiere ser tu amigo. Hay personas que tienen muchísimos contactos agregados porque aceptan a todo el mundo que conocen. (cuesta + infinitive = it is difficult to do something)

Question 19

It’s the fact that you can waste a lot of time on Facebook, right?

Answer 19

Es el hecho de que puedes malgastar mucho tiempo en Facebook, ¿no?

Question 20

I had to study for an exam and it didn’t matter: I was on Facebook!

Answer 20

Tenía que estudiar para un examen y no importaba: ¡yo estaba en Facebook!

Question 21

And for me, the good thing about Twitter is that you can see what people are saying all over the world.

Answer 21

Y para mí, lo bueno de Twitter es que puedes ver lo que está diciendo la gente en todas partes del mundo.

Question 22

Not long ago when the plane went down over the Hudson River, it took a while for the news to air the reports on what was happening.

Answer 22

Hace poco cuando cayó el avión sobre el río Hudson, las noticias tardaron un rato en emitir los reportajes sobre lo que estaba pasando. (Caer sobre = fall on/ fall over; tardar = to spend time/ to take; emitir = to broadcast)

Question 23

He saw the plane go down.

Answer 23

él vio caer el avión.

Question 24

He took a photo and posted it on Twitter.

Answer 24

Sacó una foto y la colgó en Twitter. (Colgar = to hang (suspend)/ to hang up (phone)/ to post (on social media)

Question 25

I knew what had happened before the news came on TV.

Answer 25

Sabía lo que había pasado antes de que saliera en la televisión la noticia. (Saliera = imperfect subjunctive, triggered here by “antes de que” in the past; salir = to be made public/ to come out)

Question 26

And this is a sample of citizen journalism.

Answer 26

Y esto es una muestra de periodismo ciudadano.

Question 27

Now it has become clear to me what Twitter is

Answer 27

Ahora sí que me ha quedado claro lo que es Twitter.

Question 28

You can follow us through our newsletter.

Answer 28

Nos podéis seguir a través de nuestro boletín informativo. (A través de = through (from one side to the other/ by means of))

Question 29

He does not like exclusively virtual relationships.

Answer 29

No le gustan las relaciones exclusivamente virtuales.

Question 30

We both agree that Facebook is a source of distraction.

Answer 30

Estamos los dos de acuerdo en que Facebook es una fuente de distracción.

Question 31

Mark has explained to us a bit about the advantages of Twitter and has given as an example the rapid distribution of the news of the incident of the plane that landed in the Hudson River.

Answer 31

Mark nos ha explicado un poco las ventajas de Twitter y ha dado como ejemplo la rápida distribución de la noticia del incidente del avión que aterrizó en el río Hudson. (Aterrizar = to land)