Welcome to The CBC Link!

At CBC our students always come first and we decided to launch our own newsletter directed at our

student population to help them keep on track with their second language acquisition.

Learning a new language is difficult to do by yourself, that is why The CBC Link will provide tips and

strategies to help you become more bilingual.

In this newsletter, we will run articles on current business trends, language trends, comparisons etc all with the intention of helping you the reader become more proficient at speaking English. This newsletter will in the future become a trilingual learning tool as in CBC we coach students in English, Spanish and

French.

We also have very high hopes of publishing bilingual contributions from our students as CBC promotes

the development of new writers.

If you are interested in being a free-lance columnist with us please send a copy of your work to: info@grupomaraj.com and we will

get in touch with you.

The CBC Link is looking for pieces on tourism, new ideas in business, networking, learning tools , inter-views, personal stories of how you

became bilingual etc.

Hope you enjoy this first issue.

Cultivating Bilingual Communities!

NO MORE SPANGLISH IN THE OFFICE!

Spanglish is killing our efficien-

cy in communication.

Spanglish can be fun with friends and in a social setting because it is funny and can be hysterical at times but in the OFFICE, spanglish is the ENE-

MY!

Common spanglish errors to

avoid:

Incorrect- How many years do you

have?

Correct- How old are you?

Incorrect– I have much work.

Correct- I have a lot of work.

Incorrect– This is for to send to Wil-

son.

Correct- This is to send to Wil-

son.

Incorrect– I no understand.

Correct- I don’t understand.

Incorrect– You have the report?

(¿tienes el informe?)

Correct– Do you have the

report?

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04 JUNE 2011

Volume 1, No. 1

100 Verbos mas usados 2

10 Yourtube Video to watch! 2

Difference between MAKE and DO

2

7 BRANDING Tips from Oprah Winfrey

3

APPS TO BOOST EFFICIENCY 3

CBC SWOT is OUT 3

6

IN THIS ISSUE:

Grammar Tip:

Trabajamos in Spanish can

be translated into:

I work / I worked.

Trabajamos todos los días.

I work everyday.

Trabajamos ayer.

We worked yesterday.

This applies to ALL Spanish

verbs ending in –amos!

6. The best business advice from the DONNY DEUSTCH show interview-ing CEO Robert Greenberg

from Sketchers.

7. Energizing Office Yoga.

8. Entrepreneurial Advice From Billionaires– Warren buffet is worth 47 Billion $

9. Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

10. How to Craft Your 300-

Second Elevator Pitch or Net-working Introduction

The website INC.com recommends these videos for any entrepreneur minded individual seeking to improve the quality of their life, company or just

seeking to change the world!

Sometimes we need a little inspiration and who best to inspire us than the people who have had a lot of success, experience and knowledge to share. So go check out these videos on YOU-

TUBE now!

1. Developing the CEO within you by Harvard Business

Publishing.

2. Mohammed Yunus– the So-

cial Business Model.

3. The surprising truth about

what motivates us.

4. Can a –Green– business be a profitable one– Stonyfield

Farms sucess story.

5. Seth Godin- Ideas that

spreas, WIN

These are the 100 Most used verbs in the English language. All semi-bilingual students should memorize and learn these to help them better their day to day communication and comprehension

in English.

accept allow ask believe borrow break bring buy can/be able cancel

change clean comb complain cough count cut dance draw drink drive eat explain fall fill find finish fit fix fly

forget give go have hear hurt know learn

leave listen live

look lose make/do need open

close/shut organize

pay play put rain read reply run say see

sell send sign sing

John is making a new design for his

new house.

Anna is redoing (redecorando) her

apartment.

We need to make a

decisión.

Did you do everyt-

hing on the agenda?

Make is used for things that you create,

build or innóvate from scratch.

Do is used for repetitive o routine

exercises.

EXAMPLES:

She is making a baby.

The doctor is doing an ultra-

sound.

Can you make me a sándwich? (creating sand-

wich.)

I am doing dinner. (it is routine to prepare

dinner)

I am making love.

I am doing home-

work.

10 YouTube Videos Every Entrepreneur Should Watch

100 Verbos mas usados en Ingles

The difference between MAKE and DO

If everyone could learn another

language there would be no war.

From Sophie’s World.

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Email us at The CBC LINK with your questions.

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succeed swim take talk teach tell think translate travel try turn off turn on type understand use wait wake up want watch work, worry & write.

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oriented social networks. The app

gives users real-time updates from

their contacts and

allows users to look

up important infor-

mation about someo-

ne before, say, a big

meeting. Users can

also see what those in the same

industry are working on, while also

reading up on the latest headlines

shared by their contacts.

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arguably the lar-

gest business-

After 4,560 shows, the queen of day-time television said goodbye to her legions of raving fans this week. Nielson ratings virtually ex-ploded for her last episode, which generated over 18 million viewers. Few other personalities have ever received such fanfare for an exit, which got us thinking: how do you build a brand like Oprah? Here's a few takeaways tips you can learn from Oprah's international suc-cess. 1. Give back to your fans. Like any great brand, Oprah has made her fans feel valued. In her "Oprah's Favorite Things" segment, Winfrey has given away everything from camcorders, to croissants, to cars. A good lesson to businesses that an unexpected surprise for your customers can go a long way to gaining loyalty. 2. Take risks and get attention. In 1988, Winfrey invited a group of neo-Nazis from California to Chicagoto appear on her show. Although Winfrey later said she regretted the controversial decision, the move vaunted her into

the national spotlight and showed her view-ers that she was not afraid to take risks. 3. Explore new verti-cals. Winfrey started her career in 1983 with a gig hosting Chicago's low-rated WLS-TV's half-hour morning talk show, AM Chicago. Since then, Oprah has scaled her business into new media verticals including her epony-mous TV show, O: The Oprah Magazine (which launched in 2000), the

OWN televi-sion network (founded in 2011), as well as apps for

both her magazine and TV show. 4. Reveal your personal story. Some companies put up a shield to hide the entrepreneur from the brand: not Oprah. Though not every entrepreneur needs to share their entire life story, the message

is clear: transparency between you and your busi-ness offers a sense of trust to your customers. 5. Get celebrities on your side. Besides the Oscars, few events have generated the number of celeb-rity appearances than Oprah's surprise farewell. Part of Oprah's ability to generate support from celebrities has been her tell-it-like-is style of inter-viewing on her show. "You have given me love, support, wisdom and, most of all, the truth,"Maria Shriver told Oprah during the farewell episode. 6. Become an influencer. Time magazine talked with Craig Garthwaite, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a bona fide Oprah expert, about Oprah's success at marketing. And just how big is her influence? "For example, the novel Anna Karenina sold 11,648 units in the 12 weeks before inclusion in the Book Club," Garthwaite says. "In the 12 weeks following inclusion, Anna Karenina sold 643,122 units—a staggering increase of 5,421 percent." 7. Know when to quit. After 25 years, Oprah finally decided it was time to call it quits to focus on her television network, OWN. The message is clear enough for entrepreneurs: don't be afraid to end on a high note.

ing different types of sen-tences - facilitate faster language acquisition through hands-on experience - understand better the me-chanics of an exclamatory sentence, an affirmative, a negative, a yes and no ques-tion and how to ask a speci-fipc question to get a direct answer Added Value of SWOT- Through SWOT students can Strengthen

CBC owner Suzanne Rajkumar has developed the CBC SWOT game as a precise tool for pushing students to ANALYSE what the want to say versus mechanical memorizing.

Definition- SWOT is a game oriented towards BUILDING SENTENCES in a dynamic and efficient way! Objectives- - allow students to better understand The English sentence structure through bite-size pieces -make student writing more precise -get students to be more flexible when constructing ideas in English by classify-

their English skills! Identify their Weaknesses! Create new Oppor-tunities for continu-ous learning as well as Eliminate all Threats against them becoming better more efficient English speakers!

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Oprah Winfrey’s 7 tips for Branding

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charge; that means no mini-

This app enables you to

swipe and charge your client’s

credit cards through your

smartphone — which means

getting paid on the spot when

your business takes you out

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Servicios de Consultoría Administrativa y Financiera Martínez, S. de R. L. (SECOMAR), nace en el año 2009 con la participación de profesionales de éxito y basta experiencia en las áreas de Audi-toría Externa e Interna, Administración, Finanzas, Contraloría, Negocios, Créditos, Cobranza, Control Interno, Asesoría Legal, Laboral y Fiscal, Recursos Humanos, Sistemas de Informática y Formación Bilingüe para Ejecutivos.

NUESTROS SOCIOS FUNDADORES

Julio Cesar Martínez Díaz, es profesional de la facultad econo-mo-administrativa de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, en la carrera de Contaduría Pública (UNAH), con Ma-estría en Dirección Empresarial obtenida en la Universidad Tec-nológica (UNITEC) y estudios especializados del idioma inglés. Cuenta con más de 20 años de experiencia en reconoci-das empresas del ámbito Nacional e Internacional, fungiendo como Auditor Externo, Auditor Interno, Director Financiero y Administrativo, Gerente de Formulación y Evaluación de Proyec-tos de Inversión, Gerente de Control y Logística de Inventarios.

Suzanne Renukha Rajkumar, originaria de Trinidad & Tobago en donde se especializó en idiomas inglés y francés, acumulando más de 15 años de experiencia en docencia. Es nuestra directora del área de formación bilingüe para ejecutivos y el servicios de capacitación y entrenamiento técnico y motivacional.