Top tips for learning Spanish
My main goal in moving to Spain last year was to achieve fluency in Spanish. I’m starting to think ‘fluency’ is a...
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Ever tried seseando?
For my second guest blogging post at Metropolitan, I wonder about the urban myth of the Castilian lisp…and how bloody hard it...
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I work in a Barcelona office where the two official languages are Spanish and English, but on a daily basis I’m also surrounded by...
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Since the whole point of me moving out to Barcelona was to, quote, “get fluent in Spanish”, I thought it was about time I penned an...
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Top tips for learning Spanish
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What the hell's a guiri in a rowboat?
Guiri is one of those words, like feminist or peely-wally, that I want to reclaim. Locals use it to refer to tourists - you know the ones - who stick out a million miles. No matter how long I live in Barcelona, that's always going to be me. (P.S. While Barça locally refers to the football team, Brits use Barca as shorthand for the whole city.) 
