English
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Literature
The Multiple Spanishes of Cusco
Cusco embraces stupendous linguistic complexity. The street vendors may speak to you in English or Japanese depending on how they…
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Fiestas
The Ordinary and the Fiesta in Cusco
Ordinary time is returning to Cusco. The fiesta season, when the city breaks into ritual and celebration is about over;…
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Travel
The Trickster and the Thief, Failures of Translation
The word trickster draws people in English with its ideas of play and even joy. It seems relatively innocuous to…
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Travel
Love as Spanish Changes
We are promiscuous with the word love in English. We apply it to people, animals, things, and even abstract objects…
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Ingredients
How does a potato taste? What words do you use?
Delicious Huatia Baked Potato How do you describe the taste of a good potato? Or the meat that is by…
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Commentary
Love and the Influence of English on Spanish
Spanish is its own complex reality, an organization of diversity as linguist Dell Hymes might call it. It has many…
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Customs
On Being a Gringo in Peru
“He saw you as a gringo. That is why he tried to over-charge you.” I had hailed a taxi from…
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Food & Drinks
Feasts and Fiestas, Two Words that Miss Each Other
English and Spanish are like to sisters who have lived their adult life in different places and after decades sit…
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Native Speakers Work Teaching English in Cuzco’s Máxmio Nivel
Cuzco receives people from all over the world. They arrive constantly to visit one of the Seven Wonders of the…
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Commentary
All in a Jhon, the Name
“It’s John, not Juan” he snapped at me. Oops, I goofed. I knew the name was John. I heard it…
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