For me, being a language student has for years entailed speaking the target language in the classroom and mainly switching back to English otherwise. However, living in Spain for my year abroad has started to give me a different perspective
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Multiple languages, multiple personalities?
Conociendo Chile
Hello Everyone! Now that I have spent six months in Chile, I am in a pretty good position to write my first blog post for the university on the Santander Scholarship. I have another blog alongside this one which can
Read moreContinuing hobbies on year abroad
[Taken from my blog at madridmemories.wordpress.com] Rewind to the beginning of my second year, and I was running around SUSU (the Students’ Union at Southampton Uni) trying out lots of taster sessions, including a lot of martial arts (I had
Read moreHome for Christmas
[Taken from my blog at madridmemories.wordpress.com] Crazily enough, I’ve now lived in Madrid for 3 months, and it’s time for a trip home for the Christmas holidays! After a nice flight chatting to a fellow Brit I met on the
Read moreWelcome to Mexico
****** Taken from my personal blog: http://paprikaandsombrero.wordpress.com/***** Soooo time has come for me to finally start my Mexican blog after having spent a more than a week on Aztec land. I’ve had a very eventful week to say at
Read moreFiestas & Festivities – a Mexican Navidad
Somehow it’s been nearly a month since my last blog post and I’ve now completed over two months in Mexico City! I haven’t written partly because I’ve been busy working on my research project (I handed in the report on
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