Food is something an expat has to deal in the first few days or weeks of their adventure in their new country. I talked about this in...

I'd been living in a friend's studio apartment in Barcelona for just about a year, while he stayed in the apartment I'd left behind in...

This week's blog post was supposed to be about those pesky cards the stewardess hands out to you right before the plane lands: arrive...

When I moved into my new house, back in 2005, there was no Internet connection. Well, there was a connection, but it was really slow,...

It was a Thursday in late November of 1989. I was sitting at my table in my tiny flat in the San Andreu neighborhood of Barcelona, having...

Tell me a tale is a program that is meant to get you, the language learner, to do some hard work towards improving one particular aspect...

by Danielle Allen You’ve heard the saying: "A little bit goes a long way." This is nearly "gospel" for toothpaste, nutmeg, and speaking...

By Danielle Allen The barrier “Do you know what language she speaks?” I pull out my phone with my non-sticky glove to search “Language...

Hear me out. You don't actually want to learn a new language. It's the same reasoning behind not...

When my grandma went to high school and she had to take a language, the school wouldn’t let her take Spanish because she was Latina.