@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] ‘Wow, your Spanish is very good.’ ‘Well, I’ve been based here for over ten years.’ ‘Oh.’ That’s how the conversation generally goes when I meet a new...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to/watch on YouTube an audio version of this blog entry here.] After almost ten years based in Bogotá, one might have thought that I’d be fluent in Spanish by now. The fact is, I speak the dominant language here mostly in social settings, where...
@radiobrendan ‘When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.’ It’s very difficult to argue against that one. As a species, we’re good at talking a good talk, but we don’t always follow it up with the appropriate action if and when...
