The little book jumps into my hands in a mysterious way early in the morning: It is the Jose Marti’s campaign dairy on the way from Cap-Haïtien to Dos Ríos, published in 1978 by the Social Sciences publishing house, La Habana, Cuba. Armando Orozco Tovar There is […]
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Slangs: Speak up for your raza
Slang is used both to stereotype minority communities, and used by minorities to assert their own identity, as the changing usage of ‘wetback’ illustrates. N.O.R.A. raps: “Todos mis amigos en el block ahora stand up”. A light-hearted account of the traps and the humour arising from learning a foreign language. […]
Talking about… other languages
On 14 June, NATECLA (the National Association for Teaching English and Community Languages to Adults) will hold a seminar about learning languages that are written and read from right to left. The conference will attempt to open a debate between different linguistic professionals about the use, the investigation and […]
Should drugs be decriminalised?
Between the ages of eleven months and seven I grew up in Henleaze, a small suburban community located on the outskirts of Bristol’s centre. Ben Stupples My family and I lived in a semi-detached house of average size that separated us from our neighbours with wafer-thin walls, and […]
Concha Buika: “There are moments when you’ve got to get a little bit obsessed with your idea of life”
I call her for a telephone interview that we have arranged. She replies from her home in Miami as if she were an old friend. – Karina Le Gallo – She tells me of the radiant sun, and the joy of being able to ‘stop’ a little while in her […]















