I arrived in Australia a week ago today! These were my first thoughts: This is winter? Everyone speaks with such an adorable accent. It’s not that expensive. After two pleasant flights with Etihad Airways that seemed to go by extremely fast (I highly recommend them!), I arrived in Melbourne last Tuesday night. Customs went smoothly, [...]
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Moving to the Other Side of the World, Part 2: Relocating to Australia
As I mentioned earlier this week, moving to Australia seems to be much easier than moving to France. However, I moved to France to work temporarily through the Teaching Assistant Program in 2006 and I am going to Australia as a PhD student, so the comparisons aren’t exact. Nevertheless, here are my experiences: France Visa: [...]
Full Story »Moving to the Other Side of the World, Part 1: Leaving France
I’m moving to Australia in one week! I’m almost completely packed and have taken care of most of the paperwork with regards to leaving France. Since David (and yes, Canaille) are staying in France and moving back to Annecy, I don’t have to take care of everything or even move everything right now – though [...]
Full Story »Comparative Grammar of French, Italian, Spanish & Portuguese Available as PDF
I have finally finished scanning the 1868 book Comparative Grammar of French, Italian, Spanish & Portuguese Languages by Edwin A. Notley that I first mentioned in April. It is 412 pages total and available to download in PDF format. The original 19 x 13 cm book is set up with two columns on the left [...]
Full Story »New Language Tutorial on ielanguages.com: Latin
Thanks to Brandon, Latin is now featured on ielanguages.com! The Romance languages derived from Vulgar Latin, the major spoken language(s) of the Roman Empire. Classical Latin is what is taught at universities and written in books today since most of Vulgar Latin was never written down. The Appendix Probi is an interesting list from the [...]
Full Story »The French Language of the Pays de Savoie
The area where I live in France is called Savoy and it used to be a part of the Italian Kingdom of Sardinia. In 1860 it was annexed to France and split into two départements: Savoie and Haute-Savoie. Together they are known as the Pays de Savoie in French and they make up 2 of [...]
Full Story »Enter the Brainscape Spanish Mobile App Twitter Giveaway
I previously reviewed Brainscape’s website and mobile apps and gave away promo codes for their French Vocab Genius app. Now I’m offering another free product giveaway, but this time it is for Spanish learners: the Brainscape Spanish app! Brainscape Spanish for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad is a new app that uses the Intelligent Cumulative [...]
Full Story »Six Countries in Fourteen Days: Vacation 2011
I had a great time on my vacation this year. We visited six countries – Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Greece & Turkey - and I took over 600 photos! This was also my first time on a cruise, which was a neat experience that we will definitely be doing again. I started by taking the train [...]
Full Story »Greek Isles Cruise Update
Hello from Royal Caribbean’s Splendour of the Seas ship! We are at sea today and we have already visited Kotor in Montenegro; Athens, Santorini, and Mykonos in Greece; and Kusadasi and Bodrum in Turkey. Tomorrow we have a stop in Split, Croatia, and Friday morning we will be back in Venice, Italy. I have plenty [...]
Full Story »Greetings from Slovenia
Slovenia is lovely! We are staying in Portoroz and walked to Piran this afternoon. The weather is gorgeous and the scenery is beautiful. I’d like to spend more time here but we have to go to Italy tomorrow to get on our Greek isles & Turkey cruise. This is the last day I’ll have free [...]
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