How Italians influenced a South American dialect
An insightful view of our colourful language, in the eyes of a foreign writer journalist. Read article
Want to enjoy pure beauty in words?
IAN MC EWAN, MOTHER TONGUE Idon’t write like my mother, but for many years I spoke like her, and her particular, timorous relationship with language has shaped my own. There are people who move confidently within their own horizons of speech; whether it is Cockney, Estuary, RP or Valley Girl, they stride with the unselfconscious […]
The Reading Experience
El Taller abre un espacio de lectura y exploración de textos cortos en inglés. “It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true… It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of […]
San Telmo Walking Tour
Nuestra próxima caminata por San Telmo, en inglés. Sábado 9 de septiembre a las 15.30hs. WHEN?: Saturday 9th September at 3.30pm. British punctuality is a must WHERE?: we will meet 3.30pm at the monument of the First Foundation of Buenos Aires at Parque Lezama and then walk down Defensa St, where wealthy porteño families settled […]
The Suburban Players presents: BREXSIT · The Early Years
Our next theatre outing on FRIDAY 11TH AUGUST AT 9.30PM.
The work of Lucía Berlín
Lucia Berlin (1936-2004, pronunciation: Lu-see-a) published 77 short stories during her lifetime. Most, but not all, were collected in three volumes from Black Sparrow Press: Homesick (1991), So Long (1993), and Where I Live Now (1999). These gathered from previous collections of 1980, 1984, and 1987, and presented newer work. Berlin worked brilliantly but sporadically […]