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Made By Raffi

23 December, 2016 James ForemanBooks

One of La Serpiente’s current favourite books is Made By Raffi, the story of a slight, quiet, longhaired boy who doesn’t like the rowdy activities of his classmates, and finds salvation in knitting scarves and[…]

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Late night Spanish and a side of stress

14 April, 2015 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

This evening I had a Spanish class that concentrated on past tenses, which provoked lots of talking, because we got to discuss historical events like the building of the Berlin Wall ("¿por que?" "¿como se[…]

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Cheesed

7 April, 2015 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

I returned to work today after a four day break, to find I had ninety more unread emails than when I’d left on Thursday. If we assume that nobody was daft enough to send me[…]

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Meditation and Spanish practices

10 March, 201511 March, 2015 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

This evening I had a Spanish class which focused on non-verbal communication. I sometimes wonder if they’re swinging the lead; this wasn’t a lesson where they needed to focus on imparting lots of new vocabulary.

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Squashed in Singapore

3 March, 2015 James ForemanSingapore

Today I went to my Spanish class, where we mostly discussed illnesses. There was a listening exercise where various people went to a doctor, with ailments ranging from gastroenteritis to full-blown depression, and in each[…]

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Binomio

2 February, 20152 February, 2015 James ForemanEating

Tonight, instead of doing my Spanish homework, I fled the noise of the Chinese New Year celebrations (day 3 of 19) and went to Binomio, a Spanish restaurant on Craig Road. It’s a strange location.[…]

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Too early

6 January, 2015 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

Tonight I went to my Spanish class after work. My Spanish class starts on the 13th of January. I went home again.

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Spanish surprise in Singapore

22 July, 2014 James ForemanLearning

I was taken aback at my Spanish class today, when a Frenchman expressed surprise that I was English and not Canadian, saying that I had no accent. After spending the last six years of my[…]

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A series of hapless errors

15 July, 2014 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

Tonight I went to my first Spanish class for ages, and learnt the word "despistado" which either means"negligent", or "absent-minded", or "clueless", depending on how pejorative you want to be with your translation. In a[…]

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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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