“Time”, such a small word but with such a great importance to our everyday life. Everything revolves around it: every moment, every minute we take is just a little step to see how we decide to organize our daily life. We always live as if our time is running out, which in a way is right, but sometimes we should just take it slow and enjoy every moment totally.
What am I?
Are you curious? Do you wanna train your brain?
What do you think about riddles? A riddle is a very good exercise to make our brain work, it is quite useful for our intelligence, our attention and our speed to understand what that riddle is talking about.
Homonyms…
Have you ever gotten confused using a word which has so many different meanings depending on the context, especially if you didn’t know which meaning was applied to each context? Well, I have… I’m talking about the Homonyms: words which have the same spelling and pronunciation, but have different meanings.
Let’s talk about a Spanish homonym that paid my attention: MONO
According to the Spanish Dictionary RAE (Real Academia Española) mono means: Continue reading “Homonyms…”
“Qué bolá asere?”
Today I would like to talk about a beautiful island, that stole my heart many years ago, with its beautiful people, culture and of course language:
Cuba, la isla bonita, as Madonna sings!
Cubans theoretically speak Spanish but they also have a proper slang, which from my point of view it can’t be considered as dialect, but just a different way to speak the native language!
Classical mistakes
Hi everybody!
I already mentioned that I pay attention to what people say when they speak or write a non-native language, right? So here is an article where I decided to list some of the classical mistakes people make while speaking or writing a foreign language, always among the ones I know!
First of all I wonder: ” Why people make mistakes?”
Did you know that?
Let´s observe now the beauty of the Culture:
How many proverbs do you know?Do you know how they correspond in other languages?
Here I found these proverbs in italian and their equivalent ones in spanish, english, portuguese and norwegian:
Let´s play with some music!
Another passion I have is MUSIC and I have been searching for songs which contain different languages. The first song that came to my mind was
“Baila (Sexy thing)” by Zucchero
He is an italian international singer and not just one of the most popular in Italy, but also in Spain and Latin America as in the rest of the world. He likes to mix languages in his songs: I think it can be considered his own way of being international. (He has been singing here in Norway too and I even had the honor to have dinner with him after the concert, what an unforgettable experience!).
