I was a child refugee. Don’t send back the migrant ships!
After long last, I am making videos again. Below you have a video in Italian and a blog post in English and link to...
Wheelbarrow to the hospital: Falling in Fes, Morocco
I wondered how people living in car-free zones in old cities such as the Alfama in Lisbon, Portugal or any of the medinas (old cobblestone cities) in Morocco, moved around when they couldn’t walk. I didn’t plan on finding this out through personal experience! But life had other plans...
Picture essay: Clothing, languages, foods of Morocco
Rather than describe the many beauties of Morocco, I'll show photos.
Lisbon: Sights, Language and Communist Signs
Being in Portugal isn't only about the language. Sights and sounds of Lisbon
Watch “Saved by Language” for free!
**** Press the CC button & the Settings/HD button (next to the CC button) to choose English, Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian, Ladino (Djudeo-Espanyol), Portuguese, Spanish, French or...
Mixed accent and voices in my head
At the risk of sounding like I am crazy, I hear multilingual voices in my head. To learn native pronunciation, I first hear a native...
Language gaps: Lived vs. learned languages
There's a big difference between a learned and a lived language. It took a carrot to make that difference abundantly clear to me.
In California,...
Free ebooks in July!
As part of the Smashwords.com ebook retailer's Summer Sale, my ebooks are free during the month of July!
Portuguese via Spanish, Italian & a little French: different roads to a mellifluous tongue
The strange thing with the Portuguese language is I don't remember why I wanted to learn it, yet I can speak it. The Spanish language and Italian literature and film have been major influences in my learning the Portuguese language and becoming interested in Portugal.
Le mistral gagnant: Rediscovering my inner Francophile in India and Quebec
One missing digit
One missing digit (not a finger!) almost kept me from going to India.
En route to Chennai (Madras), I had a rude...
