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Buenos dias mi amigos!

Now here is another one for today:

*Gracias, Mi amigo!
#Tank u, my friend!

*Voy a visitar a mi amigo
#I am going to visit my friend (male)

Pls u could help me translate my greeting message above. Dat wud show u're learning. Gracias!

*como estuvo su noche?

#how was your night?

The response is:............

* Mi noche ha estado buena

#my night has been good

This is freaking simple friends. Its easy to make simple sentences in spanish and get on with the language if you're conversant with the simple words in spanish. Just make the sentence in English, and replace the words with their appropriate meanings in spanish, and you're good to go. I guess you could form other forms of greeting from the one above....for instance:

Noche.........night
Tarde..........day/noon
Dia..............morning

So if I wanna say:

#how was your morning?

The spanish translation would be:

*como estuvo su dia?

And the response would be:

*mi dia ha estado buena

If you got that, you could help me translate this one:

#How was your day?

Try also to give the response. Gracias!

* Buenos dias senor
#Good morning Sir

junioromniscient:
is this native espanyol, or mexican espanyol? ***for learners*** "vee" is actually pronunced as "bee" and "zee" as "the", Sometimes /x/ is /sh/ in native espanyol.

It is Standard espanyol...acceptable to all spanish-speaking-countries.

*de Nada.

#You're welcome.

You say this when you wanna respond to someone for saying Thank You.

*Buenas Tardes *Buenas Noches #Good evening

junioromniscient:
mi hermano tu eres muy gracioso, i don't think i should translate for you.
Anyways this is cool.
my lil' phone doesn't have spanish letters though.
mi el amor a espanyol es grande!

How do we learn from your post if you didn't interprete?

You Nigerians ehn.........I tire for una o. You people will leave the buttocks that polluted the air, and putting your knock on the head. Instead of addressing an individual's lack of competence, you're associating it with his tribe. That's a form of fallacy philosophically called "Hasty Generalization".

Before you have said Igbo man will not rule Nigeria Again, Now you are saying Hausa man will not rule again.

Who then should rule?....Oh No! I hope you're not thinking about the Yorubas. Remember the likes of Obasanjo before you say that.

Let us be rationale in thinking. No tribe is better or worse off to rule a nation. The problem is the character of the individual leaders. So stop the Rubbish of tribal annihilation.

You may ask someone:
*Como estas? #How are you?
The responses could be any of these:
*bien #good (or well)
*muy bien #very good
If you are feeling on top of the world you could respond by saying:
*Fantastico #Fantastic

Let's begin with the Seasonal greetings.

The method is dis: use star (*) to write the spanish language, use hash (#) to write the english translation. Take a cue from this:

*Feliz Navidad
#Merry (or Happy) Xmas

*Prospero ano y Felicidad
#Happy Prosperous New Year.


Please ensure you give us accurate wordings, be sure no typo error in the spanish words, and give us accurate translation.

If you detect any Error please quote and make your correction.

*Gracias!
#Thank you!

jcross19:
jesus!!! Am still wondering where most christians left their sense of reason. Bible did not condemn slavery does it mean that slavery is good? So if bible did not teach gender equality means women are to be your slavery right? You think bible writers are perfect abi? They wrote those bible in accordance what was happening in their where women been treated like sex slaves and child bearer.

My dear...if you read my write up well you will understand I didn't imply any of such things you re saying. I made it point clear that I didn't mean that women are inferior to men.

Everyone of you that have condemned my article did so out of sentiment and not with a clear understanding of the point I clearly stated out in this write up. And here it is again:

The over all point of my write up is that When God created man as Male and Female and brought them together to form a Home, He appointed each one the responsibilities he/she ought to assume in the Home. He made man to be the head of every home, and the woman to be the Helper of the Man in that home. As the head of a Home, there are peculiar duties that a man is responsible for. And as the Helper in a Home, there are Responsibilities that are peculiar to the woman in the same Home. God made it so so that when things are going wrong in the home, He ll know who exactly to hold responsible for it. Now that's why when the Bible says : "A man who cannot provide for his own home is worse than an infidel" its because the duty of provision in the home is the responsibility of the man as the head. It does not mean that the woman cannot provide for the home. But this simply means that when the situation in the home becomes so critical that neither the man nor the woman could provide in the home, and the children have nothing to eat, then God holds the man himself responsible for such situation. It's his divine office and so he is accountable for it. In other words, in God's sight there is never anything in this world that will make that office to be transfered to the woman, even if she earns the highest salary.

Now if you understand this, associate it to the duty of the woman as the Helper in the home. From creation, Adam goes out to fetch the food for the home. Whatever he brings back, Eve prepares it and presents it for everyone to consume. In other words, it is the Divine duty of the woman to make ready that which the man provides...that's actually the Help being referred to, although not limited to this. It does not mean that the man or any other person cannot prepare the meal. But if the situation in the home becomes so critical that no one could prepare that which the man provided, God holds the woman responsible for that. In other words, in God's sight nothing in this world would make the office of food preparation to be transfered to the man, even if he is most adapted to it. It is the woman's divine duty and she must be accounted to it before God.

The problem with the Message of Gender Equality is that it nullified this Divine Division of Labor ordained by God, and erroneously tries to interwoven the duties of the man and the woman. This means that anyone in the home could be held responsible for any problem that arises from the Home. This makes the duo of the woman and the man oblivious of the fact that they re accountable unto God for the way they manage their very home. You see now that such doctrine of Gender equality rubs us of our God-consciousness in the Home. Such idea could only emanate from the pit of hell.

We could understand this clearly if we look at the Home in two perspectives:

1. The Home is not a mere social unit formed by traditions of men, but a spiritual circus formed by God Himself. His law is to guide everything done in it to a greater extent, and not men's ideologies.

2. The Home is like a business organization. In it, there are various departments and workers functioning in specific department. God is the C.E.O. The man is the Managing Director and the Woman is his assistant. Each one has his duty. The CEO (God) may not be there and so the assistant MD (the woman) may opt to handle the duties of the MD (the man). There is nothing wrong with this if it makes the work go well. But if anything goes wrong with the duty of the MD, the CEO will hold him alone responsible, and not his assistant. The same goes with the Assistant. So, there is never anything by law that will make the duties of the Assistant be transfered to that of the MD. Never. Such is the case in the Home.

If we are able to hold this concept, believe me, we will have a better home and have a better sense of appreciation for each other in the home.
. If any day the woman comes back and her husband serves her already made food at the dinning and let's her know that the children were properly taken care of, she would rather be filled with much gratitude cos someone has covered up for her, and then offers him much words of THANK YOU. She has the consciousness that what the man did was her duty, but he covered up for her. She'd better be more appreciative. Not that she'd assume "after all we re in this together so no big deal", just the impression that Gender Equality creates.
. Same goes for the man. Imagine the man doesn't have a job. He stays home until the woman comes back from work and drops money for food. Having this Divine Responsibility consciousness, he'd give her a big hug and a heartfelt thank you, knowing that she is risking her life to cover up for him in the home. That is a better sense of appreciation. The next day, as the woman goes to work, he would stay home and faithfully takes care of the children and the home generally (perform the role of the woman) with gladness in his heart because the woman is out there doing for him what he could not do for himself, and the whole family is happy.

This is just the implication of my write up people. The message of gender equality is not a godly one. It may seem to liberate women from being treated as slaves in the home (God did not make women slaves. The Assistant MD in an organization is NOT a slave to the MD), but that's just a camouflage. Those who invented it did it only to out-rule God's law and order in the home. The reason why women were being treated as slaves is because men did Not understand God's picture of the way a home should be run by the duo of man and wife together...and the problem could only be solved by painting a picture of God's word such as the one I portrayed here, and not by the so-called message of Gender Equality. Thank you.

menxer:
"merry Xmas" is a borrowed cultural celebration and was never part of ours, so we (Ibibios) don't have a word or phrase for it.

As for the recharge card, merry Xmas!

Lol

U should have tried by using a combination of words that can replace the ones in "Merry Xmas"

As for the recharge card, its still up for grabs.

How do you say "Merry Xmas" in your Native Language?

I bet no tribe has got this..............

Any first reasonable answer gets a recharge card first thing tomoro morning.... ;DHow do you say "Merry Xmas" in your Native Language?

I bet no tribe has got this..............

Any first reasonable answer gets a recharge card first thing tomoro morning....

sarahade:
If she did will the world end.
Dhe will ask for forgiveness and jesus will forgive her now.
And i will look for another mummy

Gurl...I find your Belief in ABORTION more disturbing than some committing suicide. Please, abortion isn't a good tin. Do not tell people that its good. It's wickedness.

People of God, I don't want us to talk about this with biased mind maybe because you are a female or because you flow with the Western World's "bastardization" of true religion. I want us to consider it with open mind. You can convince me otherwise, but I stand to posit that it is heresy to teach scripturally that men and women are equal before God.

I do not mean to subject women as slaves to men, No! Neither do I mean to say that women are inferior to me...kpakam! The reason I brought up this thread is because of this thing that someone posted in my WhatsApp group yesterday:

"A TWISTED VIEW OF MARRIAGE
People will see a man washing his clothes and instead of minding their business,they'll say "Ahh Oga Ejike,go and marry so you'll stop washing".
They'll see a man cooking and be like "Bro Ade,you need to get married so you can stop cooking".
A mother will look at his 35years old son who cannot wash his own boxers,boil water for tea or even make his own bed....a 35years old that cannot take his plates to the kitchen after eating and tell him "James,you need to settle down....get a woman to take care of you".
In different ways,the society subconsciously tell men that they don't marry women for any reason other than cleaning,cooking and childbearing.
I begin to wonder,does the average Nigerian man need a wife or a glorified maid?
Many women look 3times their age because of stress and exhaustion.
You sit down in front of the TV with your phone a d watch your wife work until she's about to pass out.
Men, who told you that it is wrong to wash your own plates?"

If you study the bible very well, you will realize that from. Genesis to Revelation, the Holy Scriptures always puts forth MEN before their WOMEN. For instance, when Jesus fed both 4 thousand and the 5 thousands, the number of people that were mentioned were only men, and the bible specifically says "besides women and children". Apostle Paul realizes this and advices that women should also "be quiet in the church and only be subject to their husbands".

I do not mean that women should not preach or have good positions in church. Here is where I'm going:

Before the advent of the western world's GENDER EQUQLITY sermon, the Jewish culture gave the world at large of how women are to live with their husbands in the home. From the Jewish culture, as understood from scriptures:

1. it was a woman's duty to ensure that food is available in the home in terms of preparing it,

2.it was her duty to give birth to children, nurture them until they are up to age

3. She is the manager of all domestic activities in the home and that is why any slave in the house that attends to domestic duties belong to the woman and not the man.
...And some other things.

But today, the madness of gender equality has made women give themselves position in the home that God never want them to occupy. Now women want their men to share their domestic responsibility by right (and not by act of willing help), some women demands the right to decide what happens and what does not happen at home. And so on....but why is this so: because of Sermon of GENDER equality.

Please women...do not be fooled by this sermon. Your role as a woman in your home is specifically given to you by your God who made you. Your husband can help you out in your duty, but it is NEVER your right to demand him to do it. You may be the minister of your state, but the duty God gave you in your home should always be your first priority. It does not matter even if you hire maids who attend to the domestic duties, just make sure it is done when the home needs it. Never abandon it and expect your husband to take charge because you have the government to serve. If you cannot accomplish your God-given task, how would you accomplish a more tedious task by humans? I have many things to say about this but let me stop here.

I fear that many women will have God to answer on the judgement day cos of this. If my pastor should preach Gender Equality in my church, I will leave that church same day. I believe that the Concept of Gender Equality is one of the Agenda Satan devised from the pit of hell to deceive many unsuspecting xtians. Thank you...

19naia:
It depends on where you do it and what you are thinking when you do it.
Right time, right place and in the right frame of mind means all is right.

Don't mind all these bible quoting pastors telling you to cease and desist and enter their church now even though its obviously a shady structure of false stability ready to collapse.

You are better off at home masturbating in seclusion and peace, rather than in some church perhaps in Uyo, laying dead, chopped into pieces by falling building catastrophe.

All because they told you masturbation is a sin and that God will hold a false structure up over you if you demand by prayer.
Make no demands of your Master God and have no fear of what he has made you to be.

Some men sef are singing praises to God for giving them masturbation after crazy women ruined their lives.
Singing praises to God for masturbation which brings you no HIV from an infected partner or cheating spouse.

Those who stayed home to masturbate or were late to that church in Uyo because they were busy Masturbating? They are singing praises to God now. EVEN THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE, HIS LIFE WAS SPARED FOR BEING LATE TO THAT CHURCH.


The Pastor of that church nko?
His prayers did not stop false structure from falling and will not stop kirikiri from being his new church.
- He is secretly wishing now that he stayed home to masturbate rather than become a pastor and catch HIV from women in the congregation who are now dead under the failure of his prayer to hold up the false structure of the church building.

Be kind and considerate to all others, and the rest is as God made you to be.
Seek in your own heart, or your mind will be used against you by men of this earth who don't understand that God made you as you are for a reason and not as a sin.
Praise God for your life and the Masturbation he incorporated into it. Or else don't come back to NL crying a new topic because you catch HIV or your wife or partner cheated on you and/or squandered your destiny. Masturbation will never do you like that.

Overpopulation will catch up to all these people making babies like rabbits because they think masturbation or Condom is bad for them. God made you correct from day one, so do not go astray from you heart.

Brother, the Angels that will deliver you are on 40 days praying and fasting. I will join them now cos ur case is really serious.

Morganie:
Well, I respect and listen to Pastor Chris too, but Pastor Chris isn't God or Jesus Christ, so you shouldn't fashion your lifestyle, habits and idiosyncrasies after everything he says because he is human, and therefore is capable of being wrong sometimes. That's why you should " study to show yourself approved unto God..." In other words, let God's Word be your yardstick for measuring actions. Not ONLY what any pastor says.

I love this answer in response to following the opinions of others. Dear, my God will bless you for me in this new year that's coming. Please you people should hold tight this advice.

And please stop involving pastor Chris (Ph.D) in this matter, he is an anointed man of God and whatever you say about him wrongly may incur God's wrath over ur life. I will come back with my answer to this question that is the bone of contention.

sarahade:
Everyone has the right to do whatever they want with their body /life sir

Imagine ur mum terminated u in d womb when she got pregnant of you. Obviously you are not a follower of Christ Jesus...are you?

sarahade:
Lame. Thank you sir

But seriously, do u mean women have the right to abortion?

sarahade:
You dropped from heaven abi.
Whether you like it or not God has made women the instrument of giving life or not.
Mothers can decide they don't need a fetus and abort it.
Thank you sir

Who made dis comment? Bring her for sacrifice this xmas...the gods are angry!

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PapiWata:
Don't let anyone persuade you to start taking steroids or human growth hormones, in order to speed up your muscular development, because those compounds carry TERRIBLE medical dangers, ranging from liver damage, to reproductive sterility, to a variety of cancers. As you rightly pointed out, drugs are NOT the way to go if you are out to build muscle. Most of those huge wrestlers in the US, who used steroids to "get big", wound up DEAD before they hit the age of 45 years old, all because they decided to roll the dice with drugs, out of haste to gain weight.

Just start those weights light enough to comfortably lift 3 sets of 8 repetitions each, and do NOT try to "test your strength" with heavy weight at any stage. Building bulk the natural and safe way is best done in a slow and methodical manner. Finally, as mentioned before, concentrate on just TWO types of weight lifting exercises - the bench press for your upper body, and the squat for your legs and back. When you start to bulk up, you can add other lifts so as to better define your individual muscle groups.

okkk tanks. i have started already, i hope to mke good progress with tym and i wud upload a pix of my achievement here as tym goes on. tanx a lot @Papiwater

well thanks you guys. i think i knew all these, but i thought i could run away from them for any fast and easier method, like using drugs or so. but even dat, am scared of the possible side effects of drugs.
so i wud stick to your pieces of advice. the nutrition and the exercise. i will start this november.

you guys are serious o! so no one could just make even if it's a stupid comment? pls i really need yur idea.

Xetima:
Anyone is free to play "Kalu-Kalu" with his money. Our only expectation is that Buhari should for once be honourable in defeat and begin to plan for 2019. We have heard of serial murderers, it would not be a bad thing to put his name and that of Nigeria in the Guinness Book of World record as World's greatest loser.

For me, 2015 is already decided, except God, no party in Nigeria today can win GEJ/PDP in 2015. In fact PDP would win Lagos, Rivers and Oyo and leave fragmented Kano for Kwankwasiyya. I wonder why people cannot read the political spheres? Why are other parties collapsing into PDP? Are they moving to PDP to fail and become irrelevant? No, every sensible politician, including APC politicians know that 2015 is for PDP.

I care not who wins. i care only who my vote goes to. My vote is my right. if i cant find a credible man like Amechi to vote for, then i will keep my vote. The implication is that when they beggin to misbehave come 2016 (cos they will surely bisbehave), i will have the confidence to criticize.
But for you who wants to sell your vote to majority, you will only have regrets. It has happened before, it will happen again if Amechi does not step into that seat. words!

Johnnyessence:
buhari is just one of Presidential candidate in APC ,kwakwanso too is in d race I opt in for young and vibrant man to lead d race to aso rock buhari is 71 yes old this year we should elect young and vibrant man support kwakwanso/ameachi ticket to aso rock come Feb 14 2015 .

I rep Amechi.
He is the only true politician i can cast my vote for come 2015. His absense from the contest means no voting for me, cos we all know the outcome if any of these rifrafts get there.

samflexx:
why e pain you this much??
By the way who is buahri?
If GEJ is a dog,OMG,you are being ruled by a dog?? Haba mallam..wawa banza.

Stop being fooled by GEJ,
how come you people are unsuspecting of his cunning way to get back into office? Throwing campaign rallies amidst d woes of our country isn't enough to tell all of you that he is a game player?

Heloo ! Nairalanders.
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I am a male, seeking for the best way to increase my body size. I know i may not be able to do anything about my height now because i am way past 23...but i know there is something i can do to alter my natural skinny or slim body build.
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Do you have any idea on how i can achieve this. and please, even when i have eaten heaven and earth, slept for 20hrs per day, i could only look like a slim 10yr old boy with fresh slim body and shiny skin. Nature has no room for me to get huger than the appearance of a small boy in his early teens. I am afraid i may end up like this as a man when i begin to make children.So i wana do something about it.
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Your advise please.

Now here is the continuation to the points:
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The last point i want to make concerning the WRONG ideas taught by most Nigerian movies is actually a very disapointing one of all. Here it is:
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3. WHEN A POOR MAN IS OPRESSED BY THE RICH AND GOD SEES THE SORROW OF THE POOR, HE WILL MAKE THE POOR TO BECOME RICHER THAN THE RICH.
You must have seen those movies where a rich man (NKEM OWOH) opresses his poor neighbour (RITA EDOCHIE) who then cries all day for God to see her tears. And then later, her son (CLEM OHAMEZE) who managed to get to the city suddenly becomes wealthy and comes back to the village to revenge for the opression of his mother.
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Well, things like this could happen, but not with the idea that it was because of the sorrow of the poor woman that God made her son rich in order to punish the opressor.
The truths are these:
i. God will punish every wicked person, whether their victims sorrow or not. the idea that God will punish the wicked when you show how much you have been opressed by sorrowing is a big lie
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ii. God will not make you rich because you are opressed by the rich or because you have sorrowed too much. there are alredy laid down principles in life by which people can become rich. If you walk in those principles, you will become rich. if you don't, no matter how much you sorrow, you will die as poor as you have been. isn't it the truth, most times people who opress others with their riches keep getting richer and richer than the people they opress, because those they opress relaxed, hoping that one day God will just do a miracle to turn the table around.
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iii. The sad truth is that most times justice will not come the time we expected it. You may be expecting that one day God will just kill that wicked man that has opressed a lot of people with sicknesses, but that's not the way it works. The wiked man may even outlive his victims...and when the judgement will come upon him will be when those who expected it will not be there to witness it.

. In a nutshell, God's intervention in our situations is most times not the way we want it to happen and not the time in which we desired it. He will not change your situation because you have sorrowed too much. It is what you do in response for the future that God uses to work in your situation.
So never be fooled by Nigerian movies. If you feel that the rich around you oppress you, then work hard and live positively with the vision of making your own money, God will bless you through your effort...because that's what is in your hand.

ok thanks you all for your responses. I must apologise for coming back late.