Interactive Audio Thread No 2 - Hilo de Audio Interactivo Numero 2 Sin Trabajo / Unemployed
For those of you who enjoyed our first ever interactive audio thread here is another short reading exercise.
The text is paraphrased from the Awake magazine and is given in Spanish and English, you may record both or just the language which you are learning.
If you haven't done this before you may find this article helpful How to record and upload an audio file to SD
Simply read the text while recording the audio and upload it here for suggestions and corrections, once again many thanks to Julián who will be critiquing the Spanish recordings and Cogu who may well pop in from time to time. I will be happy to check the English versions and as Sally was very helpful on the previous thread so we invite her to carry on here too, je je 
Please don't be shy, you can't really say that you've learnt a language unless you can speak it. You can see from the other thread that we're all at different levels but everyone's recording was much appreciated and wasn't it great to get to hear each other's voices? We hope this exercise will help give you confidence towards become a Spanish or an English 'speaker' and before long you will sound just like a native!
English Text
Unemployed - How you can live on less.
Living on less requires careful planning. Calculate the expense of living within your means by creating a budget. Our viewpoint can affect our emotions. Thus the Bible urges this mental attitude: 'Having sustenance and covering, we shall be content with these things". Remember too that a person's moral integrity and worth are not diminished by a loss of income.
Para aquellos que disfrutaron nuestro primer "hilo de audio interactivo" , aquí esta otro ejercicio corto de lectura.
El texto está parafraseado de la revista ¡Despertad! y aquí se les muestra en español e inglés, tu puedes grabar en ambos idiomas o sólo en el lenguaje que estás aprendiendo.
Si no has hecho esto antes, tal vez encuentres útil este artículo "Cómo grabar y subir un archivo de audio" .
Simplemente lee el texto mientras grabas el audio y lo subes aquí para poder hacerte sugerencias y correcciones,
una vez más y gracias Julián y a Cogumela quienes estarán criticando las grabaciones en español. Por mi parte
estoy encantada de revisar las versiones en inglés y como Sally ayudó tanto en el hilo pasado, la invitamos
a participar aquí también jeje 
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Por favor, no tengan pena ya que no puedes decir realmente que estás aprendiendo un idioma a menos que lo puedes hablar. Pueden ver en el otro hilo que todos estamos en diferentes niveles pero las grabaciones de todos son muy apreciadas.. y ¿No está genial poder escuchar las voces de los demás?. Esperamos que este ejercicio te dé la confianza para que empiezes a hablar inglés o español y que pronto puedas sonar como un nativo.
Texto en español
¿Está sin trabajo? Cómo arreglárselas con menos.
Para vivir con menos dinero es preciso organizarse bien. Calcule los gastos elaborando un presupuesto que le permita vivir dentro de sus posibilidades. Nuestro modo de pensar puede influir en lo que sentimos. Por ello, la Biblia recomienda el siguiente enfoque: "Teniendo, pues, sustento y con qué cubrirnos, estaremos contentos con estas cosas." Recuerde también que la integridad y la valía de una persona no disminuyen porque gane menos.
Along with the link to your recording it might be nice to put your name, native language and Spanish or English level:
Name:
Native Language:
Spanish (or) English Level:
42 Answers
I was actually VERY nervous to get up and do this as I've NEVER heard myself speak in Spanish. I never knew what I sounded like until this! Please, whatever native spanish speaker sees this, tear me apart and criticize the be-jeesus out of me! Give it to me, I can take it. Only way to improve after all.
Name: Charlius
Native Language: English (United States of America, South)
Spanish Level: Advanced
Link: Click here!
Sorry about the breathing, it's this headset, promise!!
Name: Sally
Native Language: English (South-East of England)
Spanish Level: Overall Intermediate, listening and reading much better than conversing.
EDIT: l didn't like the first version, so l'm doing the exercise again to correct my mistakes
I hope this is better!
Name: lovely ^_^ lovely
Native Language: Arabic
English Level: Intermediate
Spanish Level: Beginner
Really nice Kiwi, but l must admit it, l mixed it up a little bit on the Spanish version, specially on that last sentence 
Here we go again!
Thanks a lot, Kiwi and Julian. Great job!
Name: Cogumela
Native language: Spanish
English level: Beginner
I think I want to try this again. I didn't have time to listen to the recordings. Thank you so much, Kiwi and to everyone who is correcting. This is a great idea and I think we will get more comfortable with it as time goes by.
Eddy
Spanish Translation
Advanced
Gracias Laura
Aquí abajo encontrarás dos versiones en inglés. La primera, mi voz hoy en día. La segunda, la voz de mi juventud.
Name: Kimberly
Native Language: English
Spanish Level: Beginner
Alright, I gave it a try, I know there's lots and lots of errors, but its always good to practice I suppose... Spanish Audio
EDIT: I recorded the one in English too, just for fun:English Audio
Name: bandit51jd
Native Language: English
Spanish Level: Beginner
Name: Alejandro
Native Language: Español
English Level: Intermediate
Here's mine. It took me about six or seven attempts haha
Spanish audio (from Buenos Aires)
Wow! Great thread Kiwi. Here's mine. Sorry if there's a lot of static. My mic is not the best in the world 
Name: Ira
Native Language: English (Texas)
Spanish Level: Intermediate
