In case you forgot (or blocked it out of your memory) in Spanish there are two past tenses: preterite and imperfect. It has always been difficult for me (and for most native English speakers, I’d imagine) to figure out which to use. Well a few months ago when I was still working at a Spanish […]
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I hate it when that happens: language slip-ups
This week one of the teachers at school corrected my Spanish (which isn’t uncommon actually). But this time was a little bit uncomfortable. Apparently estar hecho polvo is not the same as echo un polvo. It’s kind of like the way to screw something in is not the same as to screw someone. Yup. Awkward. […]
I hate it when that happens: I pooped in the milk
Last week was an off week. It included losing my classroom to another teacher because I didn’t reserve the room and a stare-down to the death with a lady at the post office. Plus, one day I walked into the secretary’s office and one of my students Matias was there (who is actually a pretty […]
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