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This was my husband. So many thanks to all of my fellow pilgrims who stopped to help and to pray and to translate for me.
He was doing what he loved.
Thank you for the news article link.
The fact of something never having happened in the past does not preclude the possibility of that something occurring in the future. I don’t think Spain is the only country where naughty landowners erect fences across footpaths.
I’m adding a post to link your CPI with your Sanabrés alternative from Verín, which I very much look forward to re-reading.
Nick and Wendy’s CPI ends here, but you can follow them onto Santiago on their live thread — Sanabrés alternative to...
On the Caminho Nascente in Portugal we saw several ‘Careful: Wild Cattle’ (or similar) signs. One such time we saw them ahead of us and had a long-distance staring contest until they moved away. That moment created one of my favourite photos from...
In a nutshell: Look into the concept of "comprehensible input." This page does a good job explaining it: https://www.dreamingspanish.com/method. I'm conversational (i.e. I can do pretty well talking one-on-one to most Spaniards on most any topic...
As an amateur language teacher (dropped out halfway through the degree program) and amateur linguist (with post-graduate course work), I have to agree. PLENTY of people are multilingual. Ease of learning has far more to do with the methods than...
I was walking through a small town with an ageing population of over 3000 ppl that marks the end of a (gronze) stage on the mozarabe and, in advance, checked the availability of grocery stores. One small shop opens daily from 10am to 1.30pm...
I agree with this and also disagree with it. It is perfectly true so long as one adds the phrase "without training". In my phonetics course in university we had to be able to hear and reproduce sounds that don't exist in English, or are not...
I don’t think you can make the blanket statement that all older people will absolutely have a hard time learning languages. As a language teacher and learner ( 76 yrs old) certainly some people have a natural talent of imitation which makes...
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