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Arturo the Bull
Mar 8, 20222 min read
Tell me a tale: End of Season One
How quickly time flies! We began our YouTube channel, Tell me a tale back in October of last year. Sarah and I made a video together,...
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Arturo the Bull
Mar 2, 20223 min read
A historical bookmark
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...
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Arturo the Bull
Feb 23, 20223 min read
By air or by sea?
A Spanish friend and I spent three months in the United States back in 1992, first staying at my old flat in New York City, then bussing...
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Arturo the Bull
Feb 16, 20222 min read
Tofu and Tahini
I think one of the first things any expat misses is food. Like when you first move out of your childhood home and you start cooking for...
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revel43
Dec 1, 20213 min read
Sugar doctor
"It’s not pretty, but it’ll get the job done.” I’d bet nearly every firefighter has said something like that after jerry rigging a...
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Danielle Allen
Nov 8, 20214 min read
The long way around: use the language you know!
by Danielle Allen You’ve heard the saying: "A little bit goes a long way." This is nearly "gospel" for toothpaste, nutmeg, and speaking...
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revel arroway
Nov 3, 20213 min read
How to look at the Tell me a tale videos
by revel arroway Looping on YouTube I’ll admit it, the closest I come to “social” on Internet is what I call “looping” on YouTube. No...
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Danielle Allen
Nov 1, 20213 min read
Just use the "language line"
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...
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revel arroway
Oct 25, 20213 min read
Si·La·Bul Videocasting Network: Tell me a tale
Hey all. Just wanted to present you all to the new “Si·La·Bul Videocasting Network”, aka: SVN. That’s just our fancy name for our new...
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Danielle Allen
Oct 12, 20203 min read
You Don't Want to Learn a Language
Hear me out. You don't actually want to learn a new language. It's the same reasoning behind not...
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Danielle Allen
Oct 5, 20205 min read
How to COVID Impacts (Language) Learning
How has COVID impacted the way we learn and what we can do to we maximize this time?
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Stephanie Weiner
Sep 28, 20204 min read
Why Can't I Speak Fluently? Being Latina without Speaking Spanish
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.
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