Current features, travel adventures, and whatever interesting stuff I find on the net or in life.
Listed are the posts for May 2008.
So many people tell me that they want to learn Spanish but that they don’t have time, or they’re too old, or there’s just too much to learn… everyone has an excuse. The trick is to start small – begin with the basics and then go from there. Here are some lessons (with sound files) [...]
Il n’y a pas de club de conversation française à Hyères, donc j’en crée un. Bavard’Hyères invite les Hyérois (qu’ils soient français ou étrangers) qui ont aussi de bavarder en français et de faire la connaissance d’autres amateurs de la langue française. Les sujets peuvent s’étendre des livres aux films et du voyage à [...]
I decided to bite the bullet and join the social networking bandwagon, starting with Twitter (LKL @ Twitter). I haven’t decided yet whether to go for a hat trick with FaceBook and MySpace.
I hate the Internet Explorer information bar with a passion. You know the one, it says stuff like “Your security settings do not allow websites to use ActiveX controls installed on your computer,” and I’ve done about a million searches trying to find out how to disable it. The answer is invariably “go into options [...]
Last week I subscribed to the Éco-forfait WWF illimité, a new option from French publisher Relay that allows you to download as many of their 400 French magazines as you can read, plus donates a euro a month of your 18-euro subscription to the World Wildlife Fund. I downloaded over 20 magazines on news, culture, [...]
This movie has broken all French box office records, and with good reason – it’s hilarious, fun, and heart-warming. If you get a chance to see it, don’t miss. I can’t imagine having to watch it with subtitles though, as an important part of the story and dialogue has to do with the French dialect [...]
