Hello everybody!  

For you who speak English and want to learn Spanish

This site is really good, resorceful and has many grammar and usage explanations and exercises!!

Take a look at >> http://www.bowdoin.edu/~eyepes/newgr/

.....Hello Saskia, you are being completely logical when you use the word "resourceful" to mean "full of resources". After all the ending "ful" is just a form of "full". Therefor logically speaking "resourceful" would seem to refer to a place that was full of resources. However, as we know, languages are not always logical. For some reason the word "resourceful" is only used to describe persons and is not used to describe places. If I look in my English to Spanish dictionary under "resourceful", I find "adj inventivo, ingenioso", adjectives which can not refer to a place. If I look in my regular English dictionary under "resourceful" the first meaning given is "full of resources", unfortunately this is misleading, since the dictionary doesn't explain that it refers to persons that are full of resources.
.....I guess that there is a slight chance I am wrong in the sense that somewhere at some time the word "resourceful" was considered correct for referring to places. However, I asked another English speaking person if he had ever seen "resourceful" used as you used it, and he agreed with me that he did not think it could be used in that way.
.....To sum up: a person can be "resourceful" but a place can only be "full of resources".

Michael Kearney escribió:

.....Hello Saskia, you are being completely logical when you use the word "resourceful" to mean "full of resources". After all the ending "ful" is just a form of "full". Therefor logically speaking "resourceful" would seem to refer to a place that was full of resources. However, as we know, languages are not always logical. For some reason the word "resourceful" is only used to describe persons and is not used to describe places. If I look in my English to Spanish dictionary under "resourceful", I find "adj inventivo, ingenioso", adjectives which can not refer to a place. If I look in my regular English dictionary under "resourceful" the first meaning given is "full of resources", unfortunately this is misleading, since the dictionary doesn't explain that it refers to persons that are full of resources.
.....I guess that there is a slight chance I am wrong in the sense that somewhere at some time the word "resourceful" was considered correct for referring to places. However, I asked another English speaking person if he had ever seen "resourceful" used as you used it, and he agreed with me that he did not think it could be used in that way.
.....To sum up: a person can be "resourceful" but a place can only be "full of resources".

Thank you for this explanation, Michael.  Now in connection with that site, what word would you use to mean that that page is full of resorces (for people to learn Spanish?)

I made a "collocations" search with the word "resourceful" and of course, as you said, I could not find even a single word that is not connected to people that collocates with RESOURCEFUL.  Here are some examples of collocations.

  They are not the usual `courier" type, but resourceful individuals in their own right and        
  once a month for her, but she is endlessly resourceful, has a good store cupboard and odd-job men
 greater. It makes them more independent and resourceful. [p] I love children's innocence and lack  
well be charming; and when one of them is as resourceful as Mr Said, we have to be grateful that he
   a fistful of strings to their bows. Often resourceful and energetic wives have come into their  
 everlasting delight, waive. [p] Joyce, ever resourceful, completed three years on an Open          
       with verve. [p] Benedikt Taschen is a resourceful German entrepreneur who at the youthful    
On the comfort side - especially relevant to resourceful executive casualties of the recession who  
you are out there. Male: loving intelligent, resourceful, bruised but optimistic, not looking for  
permanently stuck antenna, I'm sure we'd get resourceful to try to develop some ways to get back as
 of course, prefer the second sort, with its resourceful cook and its tents and its outdoor        
       like mine. That you were imaginative. Resourceful. Not a narrow-minded interfering agony    
 Glaswegian was one of our toughest and most resourceful members. As well as being a thoroughly    
 Dragoon Guards led by David Allfrey, a most resourceful officer. One of his corporals was          
     to the pressures of life, becoming more resourceful in the face of adversity. It is a fact    
      on his present position and, given his resourceful nature, he will quite often come up with  
  Dog will also be enchanted by the Monkey's resourceful and outgoing nature, but the Monkey is    
     the game to their hosts early on. Thom, resourceful throughout, went close to opening his side'
 before joining Mecca Dancing. It was as the resourceful publicity salesman for Mecca that he was  
  of succulent and white.  [p] Fear not. The resourceful cook will simply put plan B into action    
             Uzbekistan is the richest, most resourceful, most industrious.  [p] It is also        
 scant reward for depleted Stoke's brave and resourceful performance.  [p] Goalposts can be cruel.  
     the finest soldiers in the world tough, resourceful, well-trained and equipped to undertake    
    deploy three front runners, supported by resourceful half backs. In this ploy, Oxford have a    
         incidentally; instead they involved resourceful people dialling 999. So a mixed message is
      family and Ruddock's are resilient and resourceful. Ruddock has surrounded himself with      
at the Parc des Princes.  [p] Our fans are a resourceful lot and if they can't get tickets from us  
   were the only thing he could unwrap.  [p] Resourceful James, who thought Melanie was asleep,    
faced an ideologically tough enemy, who made resourceful use of propaganda, both to encourage his  
  the moment, a young man, decent enough and resourceful, who is launched through no evident choice
    dream.' By nature, Gerard was clever and resourceful, what the French call debrouillard. He    
    with the ideal temperament for taking on resourceful antagonists and the hope that, from the    
Americans would have to be as aggressive and resourceful as combat soldiers or policemen under      
at the March on the Pentagon, where the ever resourceful Mailer outwitted the guards and managed to
 vision: not his own, exactly, but that of a resourceful boy moving through the thick of events,    
         the Iraqi force as an enemy that is resourceful, an enemy that is ingenious. And military  
  animal world's most elegant, graceful, and resourceful tribe to life. Please join us for this    
 photo [/c] [p] Beloved mysteries about four resourceful orphans who make a home out of an          
   [tc text=laughs] [ZGY] [ZF1] resour [ZF0] resourceful you had just [ZF1] to [tc text=pause]      
     at all [F03] No [M04] they're extremely resourceful they're often working on the er what we

You both have lost me  

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.....Para responder a ercoco y  a nOeh: Saskia se equivocaba, pensaba que "resourceful" quiere decir "lleno de recursos" pero no es así. "resourceful" quiere decir "ingenioso". Si una provincia de Canada tiene muchos arboles y depositos de minerales, llamarla "resourceful" sería como llamarla "ingenioso". Eso no tiene sentido. Pero Saskia sí es una persona "resourceful" para aclarar la cosa con una "collation". (Yo nunca escuché de una "collation" de ese tipo. Parece que tu pones una palabra y hay un program que busca esa palabra por todo el internet en ambientes diferentes. Y por eso puedes averiguar exactamente que quiere decir.)
.....Para responder a Saskia: No puedo pensar de una sola palabra para decir "full of resources". Por eso, diría "...the site which is full of resources for people who wish to learn Spanish..."