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Songwriting in Translation

January 10, 2014
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Multilingual Musicians Before I met my wife she already had pretty good conversational English which she learned from English music and through working in the service industry in a town with a lot of foreign visitors. She is also a musician – a very talented singer and now also
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Holiday Traditions

December 18, 2013
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One Family, Two Cultures In a perfect world we would be able to balance our time evenly between Mexico and Canada, and we hope to achieve this in the next few years to ensure that our daughter continues to feel influenced by both languages and both cultures. This past weekend marked t
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Cuenca, Spain

Travel Favourites: Spain

December 09, 2013
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A Year Was Not Enough to See it All in Spain In 2006, I got a job teaching English in the small town of Cuenca in Spain. I had never heard of Cuenca before and it was a long and nerve-racking journey to get there but it was definitely worth it. Although at times it was difficult livin
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Monikhalo

Mônica Parade – Uma feliz intervenção urbana

December 06, 2013
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Um presente para São Paulo Acabo de voltar de uma visita rápida à minha cidade, São Paulo. E tive o imenso prazer de poder ver, bem de pertinho, algumas das cinquenta estátuas da Mônica que estão espalhadas pela cidade. Como uma homenagem aos 50 anos da menina “dentuça e baixinha” cri
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Pirenópolis

Descobrindo o Brasil – Expressões brasileiras

November 29, 2013
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Expressões brasileiras Para terminar a série de posts dedicados aos turistas que planejam uma primeira viagem ao Brasil, hoje apresento algumas expressões brasileiras de uso corriqueiro, isto é, expressões que são utilizadas frequentemente pelos brasileiros. Saudações Bom dia / Good M
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Vista parcial da cidade de Porto Alegre

Descobrindo o Brasil – Moeda

November 22, 2013
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Destino: Brasil O meu post da semana anterior foi o primeiro de uma série escrita especialmente para aqueles que estão planejando, pela primeira vez, uma viagem ao Brasil. Ao dar alguns detalhes sobre localização geográfica, clima, sistema de governo e economia, a intenção foi sintoni
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Palácio do Itamaraty

Descobrindo o Brasil – Introdução

November 15, 2013
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Viajando para o Brasil? Copa do Mundo 2014, Olimpíadas 2016, as suas próximas férias… Existem inúmeras razões para programar uma viagem ao Brasil. Pensando nisso, quero dar um pequeno help para aqueles que estão pensando em conhecer mais de perto os brasileiros. Estou preparando
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Las Cafeteras

Las Cafeteras – Crossing Borders Through Song

November 06, 2013
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Las Cafeteras in Vancouver I had the fantastic opportunity to celebrate my birthday recently with Las Cafeteras and my closest family and friends. They played an all-ages show at Vivo Media Arts Centre in Vancouver My mom, her friend and even my 4 and a half year old daughter were abl
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Machu Picchu

Quechua Fast Facts

November 04, 2013
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An Introduction to Runasimi Quechua (known as Runasimi, “people’s language”, in Quechua) is an Indigenous language spoken by 8-12 million people throughout South America, mainly in the Andean regions of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, as well as some speakers in Colombia
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Latas de lixo

Vik Muniz, o lixo e a arte

November 01, 2013
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Acho muito importante reconhecer pessoas que são especialmente solidárias. Pessoas que se importam o suficiente para usar o seu trabalho e seu o sucesso em favor de outros menos favorecidos. Por esta razão hoje escolhi falar sobre o brasileiro Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, o Vik Mun
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