Practice makes perfect
December 16, 2013
Post written by Rosemary Ash. After over three months of living in the country of the language you are studying, linguistic knowledge or skills are bound to have been gained in some form or another, or so you would hope! One portion of mine is comprised of a small vocabulary book I try to keep …
Discovering new words everyday
December 15, 2013
Hello and Bonjour à tous, I hope everyone is well. I can’t believe that Christmas is already upon us… how time flies when you’re having fun! Everything is going well for me in France; after my first three months I feel as though I have fully settled in and made my mark on the community. …
Getting used to the accent in Barbate
December 13, 2013
Listening I was aware prior to arriving in Spain that the accent would be strong in Barbate because it is in Andalusia. When I arrived it was obvious from the start that the accent is extremely different from what we learn at University and therefore would take some getting used to. For example, they miss …
The other day I asked for a human breast instead of a chicken breast…
December 8, 2013
Post written by Madeleine Pitkin. I’ve now been living in Spain for almost three months, which is the minimum amount of time the university expects its language students to spend living in a country which speaks their chosen language, so I’d hope that my language skills would have improved by now. I was visited last …
It hasn’t been a waste of time after all!
December 2, 2013
Hello everyone, apologies for the lack of blog post recently, I can’t lie and say that I have been horrifically busy, more that I have been avoiding anything requiring intellectual basis (other than going to lectures… obviously) and I’ve been trying really hard to boost up my Russian recently, after a couple of test failures. …
Native Lisboans are doing wonders for my Portuguese
December 1, 2013
Written by Sidi El Alami. Although it’s only been a few months since I wrote something down about this revitalizing experience, it feels like years. I’ve definitely settled here, which is obviously great but I do feel quite detached from my life back at home. I’ve always had this sort of feeling in a slightly …
Week one in Köln: a roller-coaster of emotions
November 5, 2013
The ability to squeeze every emotion possible into one week is a pretty tough but I’m sure my first week in Köln has had me the most stressed but also the happiest within the space of a few hours! I was pretty sure that I would get accommodation fairly quickly when I got out here …
Belgrade already feels like home
Belgrade life, or Beogradski život, is certainly not as I expected. In all honesty, this may be because I’m not really sure what I had expected before arrival. I had been to Belgrade previously, and I had studied in Belgrade previously, however only for two weeks, and perhaps I had treated this more like a …
Making friends in Bordeaux
In just under week, I will have been in Bordeaux for two months. I have met a great deal of people, visited and been to a whole heap of places and had to tackle lots of problems on my own. Although some has been a challenge, I am actually looking back thinking where has the …
Wandering donkeys and goats..sums up life in Corsica
Post by Josephine Adams Since my arrival, I have regularly heard Corsica described as a place that the French consider to be more like Italy than France, and which the Italians consider to be culturally French. Politically a part of mainland France, but situated closer to Italy, this Mediterranean island, with its turbulent history of …
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