When I look at a list of animal vocabulary in French, or Italian, the words I tend to remember and recognize the best are often animals likely to be found on menus.
I Need to Regrow Some Vocabulary
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A few days ago, in the introduction to the book Spanish Verb Tenses by Dorothy Richmond, I read the following reassurance: “…this careful study of the verbs need not be the drudge work so commonly associated with verbs,…
This picture is of the trash area in a cafeteria at one of my corporate client’s locations. I taught an e-mail etiquette seminar to employees of the firm this morning, stopping by the cafeteria beforehand to get some breakfast. …
Despite any doom or gloom that may have emanated from my last entry, I am pleased to report that this week, while volunteering at the Official NYC Information Center, I saw real results from my ongoing language review of French,…
Earlier this week I finished Level IV of Pimsleur for both French and German, and now I am almost done with Italian. I know it may sound mindbogglingly dull to redo so many lessons, but I don’t find that…
A new book I bought, The French Subjunctive Up Close by Annie Heminway, begins with the following question: “Are you ‘subjunctophobic’?” Me, Going to Concert at St. Bartholomew’s Church; It Did Not Remind Me of Subjunctive This…
The Museum of the City of New York published a new guidebook not long ago, entitled Exploring Historic Dutch New York. It covers the region, not just New York City, and is a nice addition to my collection…
As indicated in the subtitle above, yesterday I spoke five languages in four hours during my volunteer shift at an NYC & Company information center, where tourists from around the world descend to get information about, and tickets for, many…
In my grammar travels in English, I have often noticed the terms “present participle” and “gerund” being used interchangeably. The word “walking” can be either a participle or a gerund, depending on how it is employed in a sentence. I…
This weekend is my 25th college reunion. Back in 1987, a quarter of a century ago, I graduated and began a reasonable semblance of adult life. I felt much better this year than I did 25 years ago. On my graduation day,…
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