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  • When Gringos Attack
    I thought I would write another article about a subject that's been near and dear to my heart since the wife and I moved to Central Mexico We are here in the Colonial City of Guanajuato, where we've lived for more than five years and counting
  • The First Step In Your Expatriation Adventure
    The very first thing you should consider once you've made your mind up as to where you are going to live overseas might surprise you The many letters we receive from potential expats always begin with the theme of cost of living
  • Mentor For Hire Services Eases Your Move To Mexico
    Sometimes I marvel at how my wife and I arrived in Guanajuato, Mexico, with so little Spanish and with so few cultural skills Somehow we managed to survive some pretty severe bumps in the expatriation road
  • Living In Mexico: Where Did That Bus Driver Go?
    Gringolandians, those living in Gringo enclaves, live such isolated and bizarrely separate lives from the Mexicans in the same town that they have on more than one occasion called me an absolute liar for the things I've reported happening in the Mexican city where I live

    One thing with which they take particular exception is what I've written about buses
  • Living In Mexico: Fight Well, Love Better
    Though a conservative, I read liberal points of view I do so for two reasons
  • Learning Spanish: The Affective Factor
    The chief problem for most Americans who want to learn Spanish but who don't succeed is the Affective Factor Plainly put, this means the emotional issues; that is, adults become freaked out at the thought
  • Learning Spanish: Begin By Listening - Part 6
    Most folks, when they set out to study a new language, begin by enrolling in Spanish I at their local Junior College This is not the way to begin
  • Learning Spanish: Begin By Listening - Part 5
    To maximize our brain's ability to store visual and auditory impressions in the target language, we must constantly, each day, create an atmosphere in which we are hearing and seeing the language we seek to acquire in an immersion situation This is not only possible to do in a country in which the target language is not spoken but is being accomplished all the time
  • Learning Spanish: Begin By Listening - Part 3
    The way in which adult Africans, and I believe many of the adults I've met in the resort areas of Mexico, have developed a high degree of spoken fluency is the same way in which we learned our native tongue as children—Passive Listening If ever there was a "natural way" to learn a second language, this is it
  • Learning Spanish: Begin By Listening - Part 2
    The place most worth considering where instruction in how to learn a second language abounds just might surprise you Africa is the place where more people are multilingual than anywhere else in the world
  • How-To Conquer Central Mexico In Your Next Vacation
    I've noticed lately the tourists that make their way to central Mexico (Guanajuato) tend to be either the loosey-goosey backpackers or the tourist elite who tend to have a lot of experience in coming to strange and new places

    The backpackers (and there's nothing wrong with loosey-goosey, I would like to add) seem to be a highly adaptable group that can, more or less, stay almost anywhere, under most conditions, and more easily go with the flow, no matter what the flow throws their way
  • Guanajuato: Too Many False Expectations
    A friend of mine told me about a conversation she had with a person she knows in one of the Mexican Prime Living Locations on the west coast of Mexico This area, one to which many Americans flock, had become too expensive for her to continue living there
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