|
ESL Forum:
Techniques and methods
in Language Teaching
Games, activities
and teaching ideas
Grammar and
Linguistics
Teaching material
Concerning
worksheets
Concerning
powerpoints
Concerning online
exercises
Make suggestions,
report errors
Ask for help
Message board
|
ESL forum >
Ask for help > SOS
SOS
|
Evilmenina9
|
SOS
|
|
hEY GUYS, PLIZ, HELP ME i �M PREPARING A BULLETIN BOARD and what is the correct word for Actualidad!!! Editorial is the same Sports for deportes and for Actualidad!!!
pliz ... thanx in advance |
11 Aug 2011
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
yanogator
|
|
Are you sure about that, Ed? Spanish "actual" and English "actual" are false cognates. In Spanish, it means "current", not "real", so I think the same is true of "actualidad". See this link: I could be totally wrong about it. Bruce |
11 Aug 2011
|
|
|
edrodmedina
|
|
Could be Bruce ... I should have asked for context. |
11 Aug 2011
|
|
|
paugyg
|
|
If you mean by "Actualidad" things that are happening now I would use the expression "Current Events".... Bruce is right, "actual (sp)" and "actual (eng)" are FALSE COGNATES, or as I like to call them, FALSE FRIENDS. Spanish "actual" is English "current", as something taking place at the present time. English "actually" is Spanish "en realidad", which is something totally different from "realmente" (English "really"). I hope you find my explanation clear enough :S |
11 Aug 2011
|
|
|
almaz
|
|
When referring to the media, I�ve always treated the Spanish actualidades the same way as the French actualit�s (note the plurals): �news�. In the singular, I usually think of them as somewhere along the lines of �current events/affairs�.
EDIT Gosh, I just checked a Spanish-English dictionary - and guess what? |
11 Aug 2011
|
|
|
Zora
|
|
Well, if it �s for a News type thing then I �d have to say "Current Events".
|
11 Aug 2011
|
|
|
