Arturo the Bull
Do people really eat that?
Food is something an expat has to deal in the first few days or weeks of their adventure in their new country. I talked about this in...
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Arturo the Bull
- Mar 16
- 2 min
Finding a flat
I'd been living in a friend's studio apartment in Barcelona for just about a year, while he stayed in the apartment I'd left behind in...
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Arturo the Bull
- Mar 2
- 3 min
A historical bookmark
This week's blog post was supposed to be about those pesky cards the stewardess hands out to you right before the plane lands: arrive...
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revel43
- Feb 2
- 4 min
Getting a signal
When I moved into my new house, back in 2005, there was no Internet connection. Well, there was a connection, but it was really slow,...
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revel arroway
- Nov 22, 2021
- 3 min
Thanksgiving in Spain?
It was a Thursday in late November of 1989. I was sitting at my table in my tiny flat in the San Andreu neighborhood of Barcelona, having...
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revel arroway
- Nov 8, 2021
- 3 min
A cup of coffee with a friend
Tell me a tale is a program that is meant to get you, the language learner, to do some hard work towards improving one particular aspect...
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Danielle Allen
- Nov 8, 2021
- 4 min
The long way around: use the language you know!
by Danielle Allen You’ve heard the saying: "A little bit goes a long way." This is nearly "gospel" for toothpaste, nutmeg, and speaking...
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Danielle Allen
- Nov 1, 2021
- 3 min
Just use the "language line"
By Danielle Allen The barrier “Do you know what language she speaks?” I pull out my phone with my non-sticky glove to search “Language...
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Danielle Allen
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
You Don't Want to Learn a Language
Hear me out. You don't actually want to learn a new language. It's the same reasoning behind not...
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Stephanie Weiner
- Sep 28, 2020
- 4 min
Why Can't I Speak Fluently? Being Latina without Speaking Spanish
When my grandma went to high school and she had to take a language, the school wouldn’t let her take Spanish because she was Latina.
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