I saw this interesting story about the French jeweler Mauboussin trying to draw in the Japanese to it’s new store in Tokyo. And while free diamonds appeal to me (well, technically to my girlfriend… I’m just interested in the brownie points they’d buy me) I’m writing this post for another reason.
The article mentions how most [...]
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French song not in French
A few French people are a little ticked off after they found out the French song to be performed at the Eurovision song contest has only two lines in French. It seems the country isn’t too keen on being represented in English.
And who can blame them? I’d want my country to sing in it’s national [...]
My brain hurts
It’s no secret that over the last 6 months or so my Spanish learning efforts have been less than impressive. Well did I get punished for that over the weekend!
It’d been ages since I met up with my Spanish friends from down south so I decided to go and pay them a visit. We had [...]
English teaching work in Madrid and Spain
I’ve recently became involved in a project for language teachers in Spain. It’s a website that helps teachers find English teaching work in Spain, with an initial focus on Madrid. The websites been around for a while but I’m helping to promote it and make it more popular.
Our vision is to create an easy-to-use system [...]