Monthly Archives: November 2005
A Bipolar City…
…that’s what Montréal is! After the equivalent of maybe 20cm of snow fell yesterday (in the form of snow-slush-rain; slush is what we pedestrians love best) and subsequently disappeared, this morning it was warmer than many places in Spain! It … Continue reading
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Palabritas aburridas del día – natillas
Yep, still slogging through the food chapter (this is a long one; I’ve done 160 words and I’m only about half done!)… Here are a few from today: las natillas — custard Boring enough…no quirky colloquialisms here… I just included … Continue reading
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¿Ya estamos soñando con una Navidad Blanca?
Well, this is hardly news, I guess (at least to no one but weather-loving Canadians), but we finally had our first snow of the year… Of course, it’ll all be gone by afternoon when it warms and switches to rain, … Continue reading
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Palabritas del día – morcilla
la merluza — hake (still confused? For Pete’s hake…it’s a fish!) El tío quería impresionar estas chicas que habían llegado tarde a la fiesta, pero no podía…ya estaba con la merluza. — The guy wanted to impress those late-arriving party … Continue reading
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Take this idea and run with it…
It’s interesting to see how you can hook into the Google Maps API and develop an application hosted on your site that uses the technology. A nice (but currently quite slow example is the MapMyRun site. Here it is shown … Continue reading
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Palabritas del día – mantequilla
I forgot to mention a few other great resources I use en mi búsqueda de aprender español… Primero, otro diccionario. This one is the Spanish-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary from Dorling Kindersley. It is very thorough, fairly small and really great … Continue reading
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Delirium
Seems hometown favourites Cirque du Soleil have a new show called Delirium. This one is a new concept for them, because it does not require the whole circus tent set-up…they just set it up in normal arenas like the Centre … Continue reading
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That red flower, Papaver rhoeas
The field poppy. That ubiquitous red flower we see on everyone’s lapel this time of year. The colour of blood. The colour of life. It is an annual flower. What does that mean? Annual (versus perennial or biennial) plants live … Continue reading
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Winter: She’ll be comin’ ’round the planet when she comes…
It hasn’t really gotten that cold yet, here, but we’re in that miserable time of year when the days end way too early and the sun seems to be a bit tired, far too easily succumbing to clouds, rain, thunder … Continue reading
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Palabritas del día
In my ongoing quest to learn Spanish (since mid-October 2004), I’ve been working especially on vocabulary these days, trying to learn about ten words per day. It really adds up — I’ve been going since early September and have collected … Continue reading