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Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

I Say Tomate, You Say Tomato – English, Arabic, and Spanish Word Migration

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Photo by Fastily Talk It wasn’t until I started learning Spanish as an adult that I realised a lot of words used in English were...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Goddess of Domesticity--or Not

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Alli on the summit of Mera Peak, Nepal (6476 metres, 21,246 feet) In my twenties and thirties, I scaled mountains in the Himalayas and th...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Bridging the Cultural Gap with Words

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Created on www.wordle.net Whenever I set foot in a foreign country, I try to immerse myself in the culture. I’ve learnt how to make Batik...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

You Say "Che!" I Say "Huh?"

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At school, I could never understand the need to learn another language. English was spoken at my house, and the city I lived in had migrants...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Cerviche Wars

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Photo by Manuel González Olaechea y Franco The warm wind rustled the paper table cloth, and soft sand oozed between my wiggling toes as...
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