While queuing at the bar on board a train bound for Rome, I overheard the anglophone North American passenger in front of me ask the barista for a latté (a word invented in North American café chains).
Unsure of what the customer wanted, the...
From my observations and personal experience, there has been a significant increase in small and particularly larger groups of 30 or 40 which impact in many ways on infrastructure of all kinds in that particular ‘wave’. Ads for guided groups can...
Learn courtesy phrases in Euskara/Basque. My greetings in Spanish went unanswered.
Continental Spanish uses the second person plural and more often uses the informal you forms.
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