Idioms: expressing culture

Idioms on languages are important because they’re also a way to speak and communicate with people. The social context set a kind of expressions that serve in the cotidian life, expressing many things saving words, and even thought at first sight many aren’t easy to unveil, it helps us to start a reflexion on  language, because makes us think, wonder and explore the language, not as a bunch of rules but as a community adapting to it by the pass of time, while words adquire strange connotations. That’s for me a great exercise for any person who’s trying further to learn the language, and start to feed curiosity of understanding what they learn, contextualizing knowlegde in language on the culture that language belongs to, also exploring manners from language, and why not meeting people. I think there are many tools for us as learners to get even more involved into a language, and one of them are Idioms, as they deepen us into a context by their usage and when we learn them and use them, we are also appropiating the language culture.

Here I will put some examples of idioms on english and their equivalent on spanish, my beloved native language.

Actions speak louder than words = Un hecho vale más que mil palabras

People's intentions can be judged better by what they do than what they say.

People use this idiom when they are tired of listening the people saying things they don’t re-afirm by acting.

Cry over spilt milk = No llore sobre la leche derramada

When you complain about a loss from the past.

People say this when someone is retracting something that is already donde, even i fis just a loss from the past or a mistake they comitted.

Your guess is as good as mine = Me corchaste

To have no idea, do not know the answer to a question

When someone is really confused as the explanation says, to have not a single idea.

Costs an arm and a leg = Cuesta un ojo de la cara

This idiom is used when something is very expensive.

Caught between two stools = Entre la espada y la pared

When someone finds it difficult to choose between two alternatives.

My readers, do you know any different idiom? Have you tried to look for Idioms on a language different of english and spanish? I did and went like: Tomber dans des pommes (pass away)
thank you readers

When the waves take you apart.

"Die Welle", or just as simply as "The wave" it's a german movie, that got me into a deep state of thinking. I should not talk about the movie but the effect of it in myself, but that's exactly the problem, how it did not affected me because everything inside the movie I believe is though to get straigh in to your mind and then change many things around. Even the movie is no that though in the beginning it gets stronger meanwhile the ideal inside the movie develops, and is the way an ideal conveys people and people's skills to reach everything, and reafirms for myself that things like nazism, socialism, communism and any of their relatives are just encaged waiting  for the people strong enough to give the first path for their release. Even in our times, when technology seems to reach even higher tops putting everything to stake, and always taking our societies to evolve really fast, the fastest known in our history. Ideal keep controlling us and our way to behave, we may make prejudices about different ideals, yet they're really quotidian but most of people usually don't notice bacause they're so custom to those ideals, they just never think about it, and like in the movie, when things get automatic, also can get out of control. Reflexion is a necessary part of our daily life from my point of view, we don't need to doubt everything but at least try to understand it.

Here I leave you the link to watch it:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2acb6f_the-wave-2008-die-welle-original-title-original-full-movie-hd-quality_shortfilms

1.How can ideals as nazism can rise in our epoch?
2.What is your conclusion about the movie? (If you  have watched it)
3.Which ideal do you think you follow?
Thanks.

One of a thousand.

Before I start writing about the real activity, I'd like to explain in few lines what do I mean with my title. I say "one of a thousand". Every teacher without taking in account if he's a bad or good teacher is one of a thousand as not everyone has got the courage to envelop the responsibility of forming people and having good results, or at least having many lives changed into every possible and positive way.
After having an interview with an English teacher from the language center of the PBU (Pontificia Bolivariana University)  who is also teacher in the Facultry of Education,He is called Juan Franciso Vasquez, I was wondering how would I answer my own questions in a few years, when I become so.
The Interview was followed by these:
1. Q:How many time has passed since you learnt your first language?
    A: 20 years

2. Q:Do you feel passion for languages?
    A: A lot, since I discovered languages set no boundaries for your world.

3. Q:You think from the role of language teacher you can generate educational changes?
    A: Of course, but It's not just about the teachers, because this envolves also the system we run here          in Colombia, so I think a stronger relation theory-practice would help to generate changes from          the practice not as language teacher, but as Teacher.

4 .Q: What is your favorite language?
    A: English

5  Q:What was the key factor for becoming a teacher?
    A: The taste on languages and teaching

6  Q:How do you describe yourself as a teacher?
    A: As another one, who read lots and built a lot of knowledge and share it with people

7 Q:Are you proud of your career?
   A: A lot, it have made feel like all my dreams can come true, and I really believe so, this is  a really    good profession, that if you do it with love it will pay you back with happiness.

Now I'd like my readers to answer another question: From the point of view of your career, are you able to change the world?
Thank you for reading.