Why we have too few women leaders.

Good morning my friends. 
I wanted to share this talk at the risk of sounding feminist, because it´s interesting, true and has some expressions we can lean from. pay attention to the collocations more than to the actual meaning. I´ve underlined them.
¡Féliz miércoles!


- But all that aside: Pero a parte de todo eso/ poniendo todo eso a parte.


- Women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world. 


- The numbers tell the story quite clearly. 


- Women face (afrontar, enfrentarse ) harder choices between professional success and personal fulfillment (satisfacción personal).


- I was pitching a deal (lanzando una oferta), and I was in one of those fancy New York private equity offices you can picture (visualizadlo).


- Workforce: all people capable of working in a company/country (plantilla, fuerza laboral).


- I am convinced, is that women are dropping out (abandonar -estudios, carrera profesional,...-). 


- Now, at the outset (al principio), I want to be very clear that...


- Just a couple weeks ago at Facebook, we hosted (albergar, ser la sede para un evento) a very senior government official...


- above all else, is...: sobre todo lo demas está...


 - And everyone's (everyone IS) nodding (asentir/ saludar con la cabeza).


-...the men are reaching for opportunities more than women.


- We've got to get women to sit at the table: tenemos que conseguir que las mujeres se sienten en la mesa.


- Who do you think drops out when someone needs to be home more? 


-...with the objective of staying in the workforce 


- How am I going to fit this into everything else I'm doing?: ¿Como adapato/ integro esto en todo lo demás que estoy haciendo?


- To look for a promotion.  (To get a promotion).


- To take on a new project.


 She starts leaning back: echarse hacia atrás (figurado). 


So, my friends:


Sit at the table. Make your partner a real partner. And don't leave before you leave. 


Studies show that households with equal earning and equal responsibility also have half the divorce rat

Try something new for 30 days, do you dare?

¡Muy interesante propuesta, oye!


Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days.

¿Te ha pasado alguna vez?...Osea, ¿cuantas veces?, ¿cuantas cosas llevas postponiendo desde que tienes uso de razón? 
Desde Funny_English te proponemos que sigas esta idea de Matt Cutt, que pruebes a hacer algo nuevo durante 30 días! Es el tiempo perfecto para que te de tiempo a hacer algo de provecho, sin ser demasiado como para rechazar la propuesta de plano, ni aburrirse del asunto.

¿Quien sabe? Igual te sorprende el resultado.

- I felt like I was stuck, in a rut: sentí que estaba atascado, anquilosado.


- It turns out: resulta que...


- Memorable: memorable, notable.


- To do/start something from scratch: empezar de cero.


- Sleep-deprived: privado de sueño, sin dormir.


- I learned that when I made small sustainable changes, things I could keep doing, they a¡were more likely to stick (quedarse, mantenerse).


- Give it a shot!: Give it a try/ give it a chance!



And for those of you interested in SEO, Social Media,...


Matt Cutts is an engineer at Google. He works on search at Google, specializing in search optimization. He's a friendly and public face for helping webmasters understand how Google's search actually works, making hundreds of videos that answer questions about SEO. 

The clues to a great story.

Andrew Stanton has made you laugh and cry with movies like Toy Story and WALL-E, he sure knows how to tell a story and in this TED talk he shares it with us.


I think this is the better talk I´ve come across in Ted. It contains great revelations about story telling and about life, that can also be extrapolate and applied to the social-media world in wich we are living in today. It can be used in the construction of the Internet image of your company and in the construction of the relationship with your audience.



A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
I really firmly believe that you are born with a temperament and you are wired (programado) a certain way, and you don´t have any say about it. All you can do it´s learn to recognize it and own it (adueñarte de ello, hacerte cargo).


Enjoy it!



- ...and an old man nursing a beer: un hombre mayor cuidando de una cerveza.


- to point out: señalar (literal y figurado).


- punchline: gracia/remate de un chiste.


- that deepens (profundiza) our understandings of who we are as human beings.


- Mr Roger always carried in his wallet a quote from (una cita de) a social worker.


- ...is probably the greatest story commandment (precepto/mandamiento) wich is make me care (haz que me importe).


- but something has caught you (atrapado) and you´re drawn in (involucrado) and you care (y te importa). That´s not by chance (eso no es por casualidad).


- So it got me thinking: así que me hizo pensar.


- and he is summoned (llamado, convocado) by his rich uncle.


- to pass away. morir.


- making a promise that this story will lead somewhere is worth your time (te llevará a un sitio que merece la pena/ que le deciques tu tiempo).


- A well told promise is like a pebble (piedrecita, chino) being pulled back in a slingshot (siendo estirada hacia atrás en un tirachinas) and propels you foward through the story to the end (te impulsa hacia adealnte a través de la historia hasta el final).


- It´s the most inclusive approach you can take: es el enfoque más inclusivo que puedes tomar.


- It confirmed something that I kind of have a hunch on (tener una corazonada), that the audience actually wants to work for their meal.


- We are born problem solvers (nacemos siendo solucionadores de problemas).


- engaging the audience: captando, atrayendo a la audiencia).


- Editors and screenwriters have known this all allong (todo el tiempo, desde el principio, fue frase del día, ¿recordáis?).


- widget (chisme, artefacto).


- all well-drawn characters have a spine: todos los personajes que están bien dibujados tienen una espina dorsal (una esencia).


- the character has un unconscious goal that they are striving for (to strive for something: esforzarse por lograr algo).


- Michael Corleone, his spine was to please his father (agradar a su padre).


- I took to this like a duck to water (take to something like a duck to water: to learn how to do something very quickly and to enjoy doing it).


-...but a major threshold is passed (pero un enorme umbral es transpasado...)


- and I was completely hooked on screenwriting (¡frase del día!)


- outcome: resultado.


- we were just a group of guys just going on our guts (siguiendo nuestros instintos).


- and I thought that epitomized (personificaba, tipificaba) perfectly...


- we had naively thought (habíamos inocentemente pensado).


- Off to bed: I´m going off to bed/ to work (me voy a la cama/ al trabajo...).


- We all live our lives conditionally, we´re all willing to play by the rules, as long as certain conditions are met.


- the vail was lifted: el velo era levantado.


- A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.


- you are compelled to pass it on (te ves forzado a compartirlo).


- the best stories infuse wonder: las mejores historias te infunden admiración, asombro.


- to pinpoint (localizar, ubicar con exactitud).

Why videos go viral?

Kevin Allocca is YouTube's trends manager. 
Yes, he watches YouTube videos for his job and he has deep thoughts (profundos pensamientos) about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral.




- So we're going to talk a little bit today about how videos go viral and then why that even matters.


- Any one of you could be famous on the Internet by next Saturday.


- And of that, only a tiny (diminuto) percentage ever goes viral and gets tons of views (montones de visitas) and becomes a cultural moment. 


- it seems to have just sprouted up (brotar/ reproducirse) out of nowhere.


- What's important is that an individual or a group of tastemakers took a point of view and they shared that with a larger audience, accelerating the process.


- But what's important here is the creativity that it inspired amongst this techie (tecnológica), geeky (obsesos de la Informática), Internet culture. 


- And who could have predicted any of this?
(¿Y quien podría haber predicto nada de esto?).


- In a world where over two days of video get uploaded every minute (más de dos días de video se suben cada minuto), only that which is truly unique (solo aquello que es verdaderamente único) and unexpected can stand out (sobresalir) in the way that these things have. 


- When a friend of mine told me...


- And so this approach holds for anything new that we do creatively. 
(Así, este enfoque/propuesta apuesta por cualquier cosa que hagamos de forma creativa).




En @Funny__ENglish nos quedamos con esto:
Tastemakers, creative participating communities, complete unexpectedness, these are characteristics of a new kind of media and a new kind of culture where anyone has access and the audience defines the popularity. 
No one has to green-light (dar luz verde) your idea. And we all now feel some ownership (propiedad) in our own pop culture. And these are not characteristics of old media, and they're barely true of the media of today, but they will define the entertainment of the future.

The brain in love.

15 de febrero, resaca post- San Valentín. Un buen momento para poner un poco de cabeza a todo este asunto del amor.


"Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.” 


Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it?
In this talk, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love and people who had just been dumped and share her conclusions.


Anthropologist Helen Fisher studies gender differences and the evolution of human emotions. She's best known as an expert on romantic love, our most treasured emotion.





-To be madly in love: estar locamente enamorado.
- To be dumped: ser dejado.
- To be rejected: Ser rechazado


- To face: 
1. encarar (en sentido figurado).
i.e: To face a problem
2. de cara a
i.e: The room faces the beach.


- To pine for something: sufrir/ suspirar por algo.
(Pine away: Languidecer, consumirse de añoranza).


- I would stake all for you: Me jugaría todo lo que tengo por ti.


- Surpass: superar/ To be surpassed: ser superado.


- To be torn: estar desgarrado, hecho polvo.


- My body is numb (entumecido) with grief (dolor emocional)


- Parting is all we need to know of hell: Despedida, es todo lo que hemos de saber de el infierno.


- How many people around the world are dancing with elation (euforia, júbilo) at this very minute?


- Madness: locura.


- It's part of what we call the reptilian core of the brain, associated with wanting (el deseo), with motivation (la motivación), with focus ( centarse)  and with craving (ansia). 


- To crave (for) something: Tener ansia de algo, físico (a food crave) o algo inmaterial (She craves love).


- When you feel the rush of cocaine: cuando sientes el subidón de cocaína.


- But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high, at least you come down from cocaine: El amor romántico es mucho más que un colocón de cocaína, al menos el efecto de la cocaína se pasa.


- Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. 


- But no, you just love them harder: pero no es así, al revés, le quieres más.


- The less my hope, the hotter my love: Cuanta menos esperanza tengo, mayor es mi amor.


- An appropriate mating partner: una pareja de apareamiento adecuada.


- Gains and losses: ganancias y pérdidas.


- Willing to take enormous risks: deseoso de asumir enormes riesgos.


- Attachment: apego.
- To feel attached: sentirse apegado.


- No wonder (con razón) people suffer around the world, and we have so many crimes of passion. 


- When you've been rejected in love, not only are you engulfed with (envuelto con) feelings of romantic love


- Foremost (lo primero, más importante, destacado), I have come to think (he llagado a pensar, he consluído) that romantic love is a drive (impulso, instinto).


- To distort reality: distorsionar la realidad. 


- Withdrawals: retirada, renuncia.
- Relapse: recaída.


- She had to pull over from the side of the road: tuvo que aparacar a un lado de la carretera.


- Too scruffy: desaliñado, dejado.


- To be picky: quisquilloso (eligiendo).


- People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me: La gente me ha preguntado a menudo si lo que sé sobre el amor, me lo ha fastidiado/ estropedo.


- There's one thing that makes me pursue (perseguir) my understanding of human nature, 


- So my final statement (afirmación) is: love is in us. It's deeply embedded in the brain. Our challenge is to understand each other.




"The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance (desequilibrio). Like hunger (hambre) and thirst(sed), it's almost impossible to stamp out (con el que es imposible acabar, sofocar, controlar)", Plato.