04th June 2006
The first thing I discovered upon my arrival in Caracas was that I remembered much less Spanish than I thought I did. As it had been over five years since I had taken a Spanish course I guess I really shouldn't have been surprised right? Who can really ...
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04th June 2006
I live in Caracas, Venezuela and spend my entire day speaking in English. Sounds bizarre right; I live in a Spanish speaking country and speak English all day. Well as an English teacher it is my job and one I don't really mind. The only problem is tha...
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04th June 2006
How to learn Spanish? As I am sure you know learning a foreign language is not an easy task unless you are one of those people with an "ear for language", something I never really understood. There are many available options. The first that comes to mi...
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04th June 2006
The invention of the internet has made everything easier right? You can now shop online, send letters, find information at the drop of a hat, even find your house in satellite pictures on Google Earth. However, you would of course think that as learning...
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04th June 2006
What are the first words learned when living in a foreign country? Well I can tell you when I started to learn Spanish words the first ones I picked up and began to use were the swear words. Why is that? Why do we focus on the negative aspects of a lang...
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04th June 2006
How fast is it possible to learn a foreign language? You see products that claim to teach you to speak in weeks or even days. I am trying to learn Spanish fast, but as with any other language it is a long and tiring process that take months and even yea...
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04th June 2006
Why learn Spanish of all languages? Why not Italian, French, or even Russian, because it seems to be the most practical language to have these days living in the US. With an ever-expanding Latin American population, being able to speak a language that is...
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28th May 2006
Ok so you need a job, nothing glamorous, just something to keep you busy and make you little bit of money, nothing major. And you definitely do not want something that is going to make you think too much. What spring immediately to mind? How about data...
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28th May 2006
So it is looking like I might be leaving Venezuela soon and I am starting to wonder what I am going to do for money when I get back. I spent a ton to come down here and now most of it has disappeared as I paid my credit card bills with bank accounts that...
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28th May 2006
Many people prefer to work form home. Authors of course do this as they are for the most part with out a company. My aunt organizes drug testing and she works from home. Now with the internet, cell phones, blackberries, and laptops it is easier to make...
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28th May 2006
Doctor's offices need help with billing, accounting firms need records kept; shipping companies need logs of who went where, when, and with what goods. There are all kinds of records and files that go into making a business run smoothly. This can someti...
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28th May 2006
So you don't want to leave your house, for whatever reason. Maybe you are a mom who likes to be at home with her kids (or a dad), maybe you hate being around people all day, or you want to work in your pajamas, or maybe you live in Alaska and it is just ...
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28th May 2006
For some reason I have always wondered what data entry was really like. We have all seen at least one TV show or movie with someone in it who did data entry as a living. The person was always portrayed as being massively bored with his/her job, and with...
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28th May 2006
Okay so you want to go into the fabulous life of data entry, or you are already living such a life and you want a new job. However you are realizing finding a job is not as easy as it seems as no one seems to know where to look. Well as I have said nume...
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28th May 2006
Okay I have a question; what exactly is data entry work? How does one get into it? Is it an actual profession, meaning something you do for the rest of your life, or is it simply a stepping stone on the road to bigger and better things? I can't say I k...
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