Every year around this time, we have reports in the Spanish media about the stress of exam time, about the long hours spent by students in libraries, about the torture of “oposiciones” (I’ve never taken part in any of these fierce competitions for jobs, but I have seen the tortured look on the faces of [...]
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A SUR in English reader recently asked on the Opinion page if anybody could help out with some insulting Spanish expressions, to be hurled out of car windows at incompetent drivers. I definitely wouldn’t recommend that – road rage hasn’t really taken off in Spain yet, and we don’t want to encourage it! But thinking [...]
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