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July 10, 2009
Practíca tu fluidez como un latino – Practice Your Fluency Like a Latino
I am kinda excited about my entry for today. I was in a therapy session yesterday with one of my clients, from a Spanish speaking country. She speaks only Spanish and she was was trying to say a word….in Spanish. I watched her for a while and thought pretty early on in her struggle that [...]
June 29, 2009
¡Por fin aquí estamos! Finally We Are Here!
De la corazón del mundo españa y hispano america – BIENVENIDOS A LA CASA ROJAS – the magazine ………..! www.lacasarojas.com
Saludos, Joan y Luis
May 31, 2009
Permítanme presentarles a ustedes a algunos de los redactores de La Casa Rojas – Allow Me to Introduce to You, Some of our Writers for La Casa Rojas
We are 8 short days from the launch of our new on-line magazine called “La Casa Rojas” where under one ‘roof’, you will have the opportunity to meet some of the most incredible people I’ve had the honor of meeting in some time. These folks are writers, journalists, anthropologists, photographers, professors, chefs, oenophiles, travel guides and [...]
May 5, 2009
ATENCION ESCRITORES DE HISPANOAMERICA Y ESPAÑA
Rojas Spanish Language está lanzando una revista en línea que va a resaltar todo lo mejor de Hispanoamérica y España. Queremos que nuestros lectores alrededor del mundo, estudiantes de español o castellano, amantes de la cultura y viajeros, aprendan de la riqueza que hace de cada país de Hispanoamérica y España lo que es desde [...]
April 4, 2009
Beware of the “Creeping Eloquence”
How many of you can reel off a verb in all of it’s tenses, tell me how to construct a sentence with the proper use of direct and indirect objects, can recite with “eloquence” when one employs the subjunctive…but have a h… of a time speaking to or understanding what is being said to you when in [...]
March 21, 2009
“Talk Me Down”
Do any of you watch Rachel Maddow? She is on CNBC “The Rachel Maddow Show” and offers great smart wry commentary about whatever is happening that day in politics. I am a fan. She has a segment called “Talk Me Down” where she sounds off in an editorial sort of way and then asks someone who has real [...]
March 18, 2009
The Underground is Hell
To be honest, I hadn’t thought much about illegal immigration until now.
Luis and I went through the very intimidating process of immigrating him from Peru which was not an altogether pleasant experience. We were ushered to the back room to be observed and interviewed by immigration officers every single time we attempted to pass through customs [...]
August 27, 2008
An Answer for Renee regarding Andean flute music….
Renee wrote:
On one of your podcasts you played a bach piece that was done on an Andean flute. Can you tell me the name of the artist and where I can get this music?
Answer: Well Renee we were in Cusco and this was a group that was playing and selling their CD’s at the restaurant [...]
July 6, 2008
….Trouble in Paradise, Part 2
I said that I would continue my post about the issues that Luis and I find ourselves in, often. And so here I go. I am not a exhibitionist nor do I have ‘relative’ boundaries, quite the contrary actually. I prefer Capri’s to shorts and I am of German heritage. (ooo, interesting, I have written that and [...]
