martes, 7 de septiembre de 2010

1. What I learnt this summer.

My first list is written in English as it's the language that I've been speaking to most of the people who taught me all this. Here's some of the stuff I learnt from them:
  1. Kings of Convenience, Jake Harper and Roald Dahl's 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' are awesome.
  2. Carbonara sauce should be made mostly with eggs and a little bit of cream, not the other way around.
  3. Napolitan is way closer to Catalan than I would have ever imagined.
  4. Some words and expressions in both foreign and my own language such as: Budmo! (Ukranian, should be repeated 3 times, used as "cheers"), namaste (Hindi word for 'hello'), 'Nai, a quant va la uva?' (Català de Lleida, the funniest I've heard lately . Too hard to explain here though, so contact me in case you require further information about the topic.)
  5. Benidorm is VERY UGLY.
  6. Punctuation signs vary a lot in every language. While we tend to use '...' , ';', and lots of '( )', I realised that Scandinavians use '-' instead.
  7. It's always better to regret something you've done than something you didn't do. And what's even better: most of the times you won't even regret anything, as the fact that things turned out different as expected doesn't necessarily make them bad at all.
  8. What 'grocs' are, how to identify them, and who are mine.
  9. 99,99999% of young Croatians speak super cool English.
As you might have imagined, concepts are randomly organized; stayed just like they came to my mind. I wish I was able to keep learning like this forever, but I somehow feel this is gonna be one of the longest lists ever... :)

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