Lupe's Adventures in Spain
This Substack is a virtual corner to hold an eclectic collection of experiences and musings while living in Spain. The audience is primarily friends, family and former students, but anybody is welcome.
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The Multitudes in a Menu (opens the original)
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In my slowly expanding social circle here in Galicia, I am one of the few native bilinguals, somebody who has essentially one installed language that happens to contain both English and Spanish. It has been surprising then, to find myself very often at a loss at a restaurant, surrounded by native English speakers who expect me to translate the items for them. What’s grelos? No idea. How about boquerones? Never heard of them. And berberechos? Let me bring up Word Reference on my phone. I thought
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