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Basic Spanish!
The Spanish daily, El País, has an occasional feature called La Cuarta Página (The Fourth Page) which has something of an intellectual bent. Luminaries of the Hispanic intelligentsia, such as Mario...
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Aló, Aló, Aló…..
Mr. Grumpy at Tumbit has got all hot and bothered about Spanglish. He thinks expats shouldn´t actually speak like expats and has two levels of grumpiness : Expats speaking in Spanish but resorting...
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Sexism and Spanish
As I promised – though I´m now heart-sorry I did, since I´m not qualified for the subject – here are some further thoughts on Spanish as a sexist language. Keeping in mind Kaley´s accurate contention...
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SpainStuff
I like this video by Aleix Saló (previously posted) for many reasons. Firstly, because of its casual and sarcastic tone – very socarrón. I´m also quite taken by the map figure of Spain … though it...
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Guest Post 1: Adidas is All In
Here it is! My very first guest post by linguist (and husband) Ramón Parrondo! If you like it, encourage him to get his own blog, to be called Banteralia, up and running quick smart! Over the last...
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Word of the Week – descolgado
Yes, yes, I know that descolgado isn´t exactly a major lexical revelation to most people who have been learning Spanish for a while. We´ve all left the phone off the hook – or we did when phones had...
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The Day Pigs Flew
Is it a pig? Rain, rain …. Two weekends ago, despite the rain, we made a quick trip to Extremadura. While this might not be the first tourist port of call that comes to mind when one tires, as one...
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Word of the Week – chapuza
Can Pay, Won´t Pay I just got a call from the police. No, my violent political past (one No Blood for Oil demonstration last century) hasn´t caught up with me. It´s my occasional inability to...
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