La Palabra del Día: "el curso"
el curso ( koor'-soh )
noun ( course, direction )
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1. Gracias al curso de español que tomé en la universidad, ahora puedo solicitar a trabajos en Latinoamérica.
Thanks to the Spanish course I took in college, I can now apply to jobs in Latin America.
2. ¡En el curso de una semana he tenido seis exámenes, y todavía me falta una!
Over the course of one week I've had six exams, and I'm still missing one!
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¡Mi curso favorito es el de español!
My favorite course is Spanish!
If he had told her then what she meant to him, everything would be different now and his life would have a different direction.
Si él le hubiera dicho entonces lo que ella significaba para él, todo sería diferente ahora y su vida tendría un curso diferente.
Es un error tratar de forzar las cosas. Hay que dejar que la vida siga su curso.
It's unwise to try to force things. One must let life run its natural course.
It is easier to change the course of a river than the character of a man.
Es más fácil variar el curso de un río que el carácter de un hombre.(Proverbio chino).
Who will teach the course next year?
¿Quién enseñará el curso en el próximo año?
Actualmente estoy tomando un curso (académico) de lógica, que es muy divertido y podría ser útil en situaciones de la vida cotidiana también.
I am currently taking a (universitary) course in logics, which is great fun and might come in handy in everyday life situations too.
En el futuro me encantaría impartir cursos de español a los ingleses que viven en España pero no hablen nada de la lengua.
With Franco's corrections: En el futuro me encantaría impartir cursos de español a los ingleses que viven en España pero que no hablen nada de la lengua.
In the future I would love to give Spanish classes to English people who live in Spain but don't speak any of the language.
Acabo de inscribirme en mi próximo curso del español.
I just registered for my next Spanish course.
Mi curso favorito es escritura creativa en inglés.
My favorite course is creative writing in English.
En el transcurso de nuestra conversación descubrí que habíamos perdido el horario de los trenes. . In the course of our conversation I discovered that we have lost the train timetable .
Los cursos de gramática Española y Portuguesa son muy poco diferentes.
The course of grammar between Spanish and Portuguese is only slightly different.
Millones de jóvenes japoneses dan curso a sus imaginaciones y adoran a esta cantante del holograma como su ídolo.
Millions of youth in Japan give free rein to their imaginations and worship this hologram singer as their idol.
En la escuela secundaria, la biología fue el curso en el que obtuve mejores notas.
In high school, biology was the course that I received my best grade.
Me encantaría tomar un curso acerca de secuencia de comandos de CGI.
I would love to take a course about CGI scripts.
La invención de la bomba atómica cambió el curso de la historia.
The invention of the atomic bomb changed the course of history.
