Chinglish in Costa Rica
Mi Pequeña Niña has a surrogate grandmother, a lovely woman by the name of Vicki. And, no, I don’t know her last name. All I do know of Vicki is that she’s an international school teacher, had arrived from Syria a couple …
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My evolving job
When it was first proposed that I would come to Costa Rica and start up a new office, there were a lot of questions about how all this would be done. Starting a new office means running without the infrastructure that …
Misconceptions on learning Spanish
I remember when I was back in university. As part of my English degree, I was told that I had to take two languages. Literally, different languages, not just something that was culturally different (a couple of friends …
Updates to the Rolex Website
Almost since we launched the new Rolex.com website back at the end January, we’ve been working on more updates. First off are four additional languages with which to learn all there is about Rolex: Spanish, Japanese, …
Amy, communications superstar!
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Amy, communications superstar!.] So, sitting in the only internet connection in all of Krasnoyarsk (or seemingly so), Amy dove into one of the sites she used extensively …
The language barrier
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: The language barrier.] Okay, we finally hit the wall. It took us a while. Kazan is far enough away from Moscow that you’ll be hard-pressed to find much English. The most …
Finding the Academy of Geology Hotel
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Finding the Academy of Geology Hotel.] When the Lonely Planet books fall a little short…So here’s the description of the Academy of Geology Hotel here in …