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What´s the difference between an English exam and a test of English?
Cambridge FCE or TOEFL? Advanced or PET? TOEIC or APTIS? The Oxford Test of English or IELTS? There are so many of them and yet so little understanding of what each encompasses that you come to feel that much choice is not actually what you wanted. But English is a global language and depending on…
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If you were a man, would you not be a misogynist, too?
It was the last part that caught my eye beyond the happiness and wicked enthusiasm: “men should hold other men accountable” or “the boys watching today will be the men of tomorrow”. So basically let’s differentiate again: educate boys because they are boys, raise awareness among boys, and make men take action against their more…
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The Longest September
Sunny days follow this longest September. And with it, the joy of new beginnings – boy, was I in dire need of one. I can see ahead again. And I see a mirror that I chose to put in front of me so I can tell myself to take a long, deep look into it,…
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Help. Cuando el mal es un grito de auxilio
Cada frase que le echa en cara está doblada en sus adentros por un grito de ayuda y una suplicación a la redención. Cada cosa fea, torcida, amarga que le dice viene seguida por un “te suplico, ayúdame” que sólo él escucha, porque lo dice exclusivamente en su mente. Cada insulto que escupe se traduce…
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A Tearful Footballer and People Dressed in Flags
It goes without saying that being for or against Catalonia’s hypothetical independence does not help Spaniards pay their mortgages or find decent jobs, make their small businesses take off or stagnate, feed their children or offer them better opportunities in life. Walking on the streets of beautiful Madrid wrapped up in a Spanish flag does…
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El TOC del inglés o cómo ponerse con para luego dejar un idioma
Al principio, el inglés es necesidad; y como tal necesidad, se asume como un proceso a corto plazo, que además requiere esfuerzos y sacrificios. En seguida se transforma en obsesión: se aprende sólo con nativos – profesores o no; de hecho, da igual mientras sean nativos – y si posible, con métodos prodigiosos que prometan…
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This Obsession of Labeling
People keep trying to put names on stuff and label experiences and thus necessarily corset any human possibility within the confined space of limits. I hate that word and everything it implies. Put a limit to thinking, put a label on what people are or are not and you´ve got a pretty full stop for…
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Parece mentira
Parece mentira que una mañana de un día de trabajo en la capital española se convierta en una pesadilla para muchísimos de los que utilizamos los medios de transporte público.
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¿Os parece medianamente bien si nos ponemos a hacer periodismo con decencia?
NO, es que NO. NO soy de repente especialista en leyes rumanas, NO quiero buscar información sobre delincuentes españoles detenidos en Rumanía solamente porque la necesitan periodistas españoles para satisfacer a su público y cobrar por ello, NO tengo intención de presumir de mis contactos profesionales de mi país para hacer favores a televisiones españoles…
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Cum se prețuiește compasiunea față de refugiați și imigranți
Cine este de acord să primească un imigrant în propria casă? Câți bani este dispus fiecare dintre aceștia să cheltuie neprogramat pentru o șansă dată unui necunoscut? După răspunsurile simple, răspicate și sincere la aceste întrebări, solidaritatea, omenia, compasiunea și mila rămân doar vorbe, pe care să le scriem în neștire și cu care să…
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De la normalidad de los famosos enfadados con la ley
Lejos de mí cualquier intención de condenarlos o reprobarlos; de juzgarlos o tan siquiera envidiarlos. Sólamente estoy notando como el foco de las luces de la celebridad se está volcando en sus historias personales famosas – lejos, muy lejos de los hechos feos que han desencadenado estas historias. Lo que no gusta, se maquilla; lo…
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Eso de quedar bien
No obstante, éso de quedar bien se ha convertido en algo lamentablemente superficial, insustancial y frívolo cuando se trata de ciertas cosas, algunos hechos y varios fallos. Todos – y son muchos – los que entran en la categoria de estas pequeñas cosas que no se hacen. Porque si se hacen, ya no se trata…
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Utopia asta a străinătății
Ei bine, eu aș vrea acum să spulber utopia străinătății – și evident, iluzia comparațiilor frivole de genul ”aici e mai bine, acolo e mai rău” – aducând aminte cu umilință că dacă știm bine că lumea asta-i strâmbă, atunci hai să nu ne mințim și să recunoaștem că e strâmbă peste tot, iar dacă…
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The cities within the city
Of course I got lost inside Alhambra. I felt overwhelmed from the very beginning, when it took me so long to get there by bus from the center of Granada, and then walk up to what I thought was the top, the palace, only to discover it was only the meeting point for thousands and…
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Roughly a Year Ago
Memories are what we are: our lives, our moments, our truths, our beloved ones, our friends and our times; the air we breathe, the mountain tops we see, the books we read, the people we meet. I never thought I wanted to forget anything or anybody, be they as bad as they could get, because…
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The Small Box of Everything
There is always one little box in my house (there was one in all the houses I have lived) that I never get to unpack and it just remains stranded in a corner or a cabinet, but always easy to be found and forever open. I had filled a whole box with all the tickets,…
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