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Day 103: I Live in a Bilingual Household

Day 103: I Live in a Bilingual Household

By on April 14, 2011 in Australia

I’ve always wondered how people that speak two different languages make a relationship work. I always wonder more how they communicate at home since communication, to me, is like the essential part of making a relationship work, no?
I know it’s not to the same extent as, let’s say, someone who speaks Spanish and someone who speaks Japanese getting married,… Read more

April 14, 2011 · Read full story · Comments { 13 }

Fave Posts Part 1: Language & Communication

By on June 1, 2010 in Writing

You can’t travel around the world… Read more and not experience some level of difficulty with communicating. It’s a given almost anywhere you go; even if I were to travel to the deep south in America I would have troubles with the language. While looking through my site’s archives, I noticed that I had touched on the subject quite a few times,

June 1, 2010 · Read full story · Comments { 2 }
Things I've Kept: Funny Student Papers

Things I've Kept: Funny Student Papers

By on April 9, 2010 in Soviet Travel, Things I've Kept, Ukraine

I was sitting in my room in Ukraine when I started hearing my flatmate laughing pretty loudly. After it didn’t stop, I had to ask what was going on because who likes to be left out of a funny moment?
It turns out she was grading papers from her English students, and one student in particular was giving her quite… Read more

April 9, 2010 · Read full story · Comments { 8 }
Americans Don't Speak English

Americans Don't Speak English

By on December 24, 2009 in Australia

I’ve probably mentioned it before, but a large part of the English-speaking Western world actually believes that Americans don’t speak English. So, what exactly do we Americans speak? American!
Look, I’ll give it to the Brits that perhaps their English is the more proper and correct version. They did, after all, father the language. We Americans then took it and… Read more

December 24, 2009 · Read full story · Comments { 27 }

Polish Hospitality

By on March 29, 2008 in Poland

After the horror that was my two days in Lublin, Krakow appeared as nothing more than a peaceful dream. Ok, maybe not too peaceful. There were those EIGHT Spanish guys in my room, and there were those two girls who were happy that some guy randomly spiked their drinks in Hungary (really?! are they still smiling looking back at that?!).… Read more

March 29, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 3 }