Do you remember what I wrote in my blog three weeks ago? About how I would apply a “tropical schedule” when the outside temperatures would go up to thirty-five degrees and how I didn’t really see that happening in the Netherlands anytime soon? Well, challenge accepted, they must have thought up there in heaven. Today, and …
Weekly blog #141: Heat waves, surprise parties and packing stress Read More »
As you know, there’s a new blog every week. Every single Monday again. No matter if it’s Christmas or the middle of summer, and no matter if I’m running around at the Eurovision Song Contest or lying on a beach somewhere in the south of Spain. There are times when I type the blog in …
Ciaone. In other words, a very big ciao. Nowadays, this little word is used more and more often – by mostly young people – to the great displeasure of Italian linguists because of what they consider to be the “degradation” of the language. Nevertheless, I too am guilty of using this word from time to …