Courtesy of our guest blogger, Jeremy.
I’ve always wondered about French-based créole. How did it develop and how has it evolved? Where is it spoken and what similarities does it share with normal French?
Of course, this French blog won’t be able to cover exhaustive answers to such open-ended questions, but it can provide you with some [...]
Mar
30
2010
30
2010
French Creole
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30
2010
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2010
Mar
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2010
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2010
La Primavera di Vivaldi
È giunta la Primavera (spring is upon us), and to celebrate her arrival what better way than by listening to Vivaldi’s Le Quattro Stagioni (the Four Season). A few days ago we had the pleasure of going to a great performance of this famous piece of music at Il Teatro della Rosa, a beautiful little [...]
Mar
28
2010
28
2010
Greguerías
Today we are going to talk about a literary device that is part of Spanish culture: a mixture between “juego de palabras” (pun) and metáfora (metaphor), known as Greguería.
The name was coined by the Spanish author Ramón Gómez de la Serna, one of the first writers to use this device. He was born in 1888 [...]
Mar
28
2010
28
2010
Greguerías
Today we are going to talk about a literary device that is part of Spanish culture: a mixture between “juego de palabras” (pun) and metáfora (metaphor), known as Greguería.
The name was coined by the Spanish author Ramón Gómez de la Serna, one of the first writers to use this device. He was born in 1888 [...]