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Language Learning Tips

A few ideas for improving your command of Spanish
It's a bit cheeky of me to be giving tips about language learning. You might as well ask Donald Trump to teach you how to dance the ballet. I've never been good at languages. It was the only thing I failed at school and after nearly twenty years of speaking Spanish I'm still far from fluent. That part of my brain that processes language just doesn't seem to work very well in me. However, having tried all sorts of things to improve my Spanish I am perhaps in a good position to say... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, November 1, 2020 9:01:00 AM Categories: Andalusia Language Murcia Spain Spanish Spanish culture
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Funny Things They Eat in Spain

Warning: Don't read this if you are vegan/vegetarian
It was during my first week in Spain that I ascended an escalator in a big supermarket, turned a corner in to the meat section and was greeted by a rack of pig faces. It was quite a bizarre sight! It looked as though the left half a pig's head had been placed in a polystyrene tray and wrapped in cling-film. There were dozens of them, all looking the same way, which of course prompted a question in my ever curious mind. Where were the right hand sides of the pig's heads? Was there another ... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, October 25, 2020 2:02:00 AM Categories: Andalusia Cusine Food Murcia Spanish Spanish culture Tourism
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The low down on Spanish weddings

What's it really like to go to a wedding in Spain?
I stumbled across a DVD I made a few years ago of a Spanish wedding that I was invited to. I've been to several in fact, and I've noticed there are quite a few differences to Spanish weddings, some of which may seem a little odd to outsiders. Firstly, one doesn't necessarily need to know the bride and groom to be invited to a wedding in Spain. In one instance I was very friendly with the groom's father but I'd never met his son or the wife to be. On the big day, although I attended ... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, October 18, 2020 1:50:00 AM Categories: Andalusia Spanish Spanish culture
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