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21 October, 2014 James ForemanSpanish

I had a Spanish lesson today, so I packed extra tofurkey sandwiches to eat on the way from office to class, and then, quite predictably, ate them all by four in the afternoon because I[…]

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No hay mal tiempo, solo mama ropa

19 April, 2014 James ForemanFamily

I had a Spanish lesson today, so after a sluggish run and a cappuccino, I went over to Bugis to stuff more words into my brain. Today’s lesson was on holidays and weather; being British,[…]

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To be or not to be

8 April, 2014 James ForemanSpanish

There are two verbs that mean "to be" in Spanish: ser and estar. As described to me, one is essential and the other is contingent. That is, ser is for describing things that you always[…]

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12 February, 2014 James ForemanSpanish

Tonight I had a Spanish lesson after work, to make up for the one I missed when I was in Hong Kong. It was quite a different dynamic to going to class on Saturdays; for[…]

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Spanish practices

25 January, 201426 January, 2014 James ForemanLanguage

Today we did conjugation of irregular verbs in our Spanish lesson, along with reflexive verbs. Reflexive verbs are things like llamarse, which in first person singular becomes me llamo (I am called); until today I[…]

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Any joy with that?

30 August, 2013 James ForemanLanguage

I was called across the office today to arbitrate a point of English. Somebody had received an email about a fairly monotonous task they’d been attempting, asking "did you have any joy with that?" I[…]

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