My friend Donal called me during the week asking for advice on setting up as a translator on the Costa del Sol. With an Irish mother and Spanish father, he speaks English and Spanish fluently. Our conversation went like this:
‘How should I start off?’
‘Creatively, just as [...]
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If I did not know the town where I live and fancied a round of golf there, I would turn off the motorway at a sign pointing to a course one supposes to be close by, but which is, in fact, a long way from the town on a winding country road.
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I was chatting to my older brother on the phone last night about his latest girl-friend. He wants to bring her over for a week or so before moving on to the next one, but is worried that I might confuse her with the last he brought over, whom I mistook for the previous [...]
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Driving backwards along the lane leading up to my house the other day and pulling into a space where the ostrich couldn’t get me to let Manolo’s father pass (he is incapable of reversing; hence, one backs up every time one meets him on his way back from visiting his cows), it occurred to me [...]
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