It’s been a long time since my last post.
I’ve been living a good “Erasmus semester” life in the beautiful Toulouse in Southern France. In the mean time I have traveled in Spain and a few places in France (and let’s not forget Andorra!).
2 of the few things that I would like to share from these last months and have changed my life quite impressively are :
Couchsurfing and Rosetta Stone. Each of them would deserve a post or even better a blog of their own, but due to lack of time I will change write a little bit for both here.
Couchsurfing is a really beautiful and quite famous project for finding a place to stay in other cities. I travelled in Spain using couchsurfing and I am really impressed! It is a completely new and different way of travelling making it super-easy to meet new and interesting people and see how they actually live in the city you are visiting.
I would like from here to thank once again all the wonderful people I met in my trip and most importantly manolo, nadia, andria and ro that hosted during all these days!
Muchas gracias amigos/as!
Rosetta Stone is a (commercial) program for learning new languages.
I always thought that it is quite stupid and useless using this kind of programs, however I tried it mostly for fun to learn Spanish, and now 2 months (and a 2 week trip to Spain) later, I can say that I can speak (basic) Spanish. It is really impressive what it can do with it’s innovative way of teaching by using only pictures.
So I feel the need to suggest this program to all the people interested in learning a new language.
Some other less important but interesting links :
* An analysis of the “I can read scrambled text” email going around for many years.
I was really wondering what a could explanation would be and here is a good enough.
* The Study Spanish website has a useful section for grammar, which if combined with Rosetta Stone I believe can give quite good results.
* Wolfram Alpha is the new and (kinda) innovative (scientific) search engine by Wolfram.
