The BBCi site is pushing Spanish the Spanish language today. It's pretty basic stuff, but it gives you some useful phrases for the ski slopes, including ¡Mira al presumido ese! (What a poseur!) and ¡Peligro! ¡Avalancha! (Danger! Avalanche!). It would take great presence of mind to remember to do it, but at least, as you reached for your phrase book with the great white wave coming tumbling down, you'd be showing the kind of commitment which is necessary to learning a language well.

If you're British, white, middle-class, born in the 1960's and like reading, then you may be interested in this nostalgia trip, a chance to understand how Martin Aitchison, who you may never have heard of, shaped your childhood world. Also, today I discovered this, which is sort of chatty. If you weren't interested in either of those, then this might at least raise a smile in these oft grim times (last two links via Blogdex). Atlético de Madrid managed to win a game of football tonight. I'm not sure how they managed it, but un golazo de Fernando Torres unsurprisingly had something to do with it. Ah, surely this is what blogging should really be like. All over the bloody place. Messy, Spontaneous. And finally, John at Iberian Notes gave me a mention today, so here I am giving him one back. You might not agree with everything he says, but he's interesting and informed. I've also put up a couple of new links in the sidebar, including Kaleboel, a blog which, like John's, is written from Barcelona by a guy with a very non-Spanish name.
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