Easter around the world
Do you know how Spain, Italy and other cultures celebrate Easter? As a child, the only holiday to look forward to after Christmas was Easter. I knew that it was intended to commemorate the...
Category: Education
How a foreigner learnt about Argentina’s history
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. I first arrived in Argentina last year, a few days before the last Día de la Memoria por la verdad y...
4 successful approaches to teaching English
Many English teachers in South America are going back to school this week. Lucky teachers will be returning to classes of attentive and interested students who have a real desire to learn English. Unfortunately,...
Cultural Differences in Etiquette
How do you greet someone you meet for the first time? The answer to this probably depends on where you are. If you try an Asian bow to say hello to someone in South...
Things Argentinians say
Six months ago, I wrote about what I had learnt from Argentinians. After spending a year in Argentina, I have finally stopped eating dulce de leche every day, I use un par to describe...
Five – Minute punctuation boost: commas.
Punctuation works in almost the same way between English and other European languages. In both Spanish and English you can easily insert one comma into this sentence, to invite Maria to eat, instead...
How well people in Asia speak English and why
English is the lingua franca of the world. It is by far the most popular second language learnt, and it is being taught in almost every country. Sometimes well, sometimes...
Raising Bilingual Children
I grew up in England, however, every summer I visited Gibraltar, where my father is from. My Gibraltarian family spoke Llanito, a mix of English and Spanish. Although as a teenager my Spanish was...
