Life in Culebrón

My sister-in-law is, apparently, learning French. She and my sister, who is learning Russian, were talking about Duolingo, the telephone and...

Sometimes I think my Spanish is OK. Other times, I despair. Most of the time, when I have a longer session speaking Spanish, despair is the ...

This is the fourth in the series about the very ordinary things I do each week, or at least regularly, with my attempt to write in the Spani...

I've been trying to learn Spanish since Methuselah was a lad. I remember being well pleased when clay tablets gave way to parchment and ...

I've been trying to learn Spanish for ages, long before we got here 17 years ago. In fact I started my first Spanish class in 1983. I...

I'm up to three sessions a week now with the online Spanish learning - a bloke in Alicante, another in Manresa in Cataluña and a woma...

Ages ago quite a famous teacher of English here was being interviewed on the radio. The reporter asked him how long it took to become bili...

Our fridge went beep when the door was opened. It shouldn't. It still worked though. We could live with that. Then the handle came off...

I'm working on Saturdays at the moment. It's ages since I worked weekends on a regular basis. If you don't know I supplement m...

The health people send you a little packet through the post. Inside there's a sort of flat tube with some liquid in it with a cap tha...

When I was at university, a lifetime ago, I was asked how much say I thought students should have in the learning programme. My answer, ...