Amalia GavinaAuthentic Communication: The Power of Listening You don’t have to be a genius to realize that most of our communication problems are, in their essence, caused by our difficulty to listen to each other authentically. Whether we like it or not, most of us just […]
Searching for some information related to changes I came across this article, which seems to tackle a hot issue, at least among linguists and those interested in language matters. How many of these changes are we aware of? Are all of these changes positive for […]
Amalia GavinaOnly a few documentaries have moved and captivated me more than this one has. It is reality told by the same people who are living it what, perhaps, touches the spectator the most. The transparency and simplicity with which the message reaches you capture you […]
Amalia GavinaI´ve watched the documentary “The Amazon Code” very recently and it struck me as one of the most fascinating documentaries I´ve ever watched in connection with linguistics. What this documentary does is to challenge the basis of modern linguistics, i.e, the theory of Universal Grammar. […]
Yesterday I went to the cinema to see “Her”, a film by Spike Jonze, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson and Amy Adams, among others. In broad terms, the film is situated in a not-too-distant future, where a 30 or 40-year-old solitary man, after splitting up […]
Taboo words (“las malas palabras”) “¿Por qué son malas las malas palabras ? ¿Quién las define? ¿Qué actitud tienen las malas palabras? ¿Les pegan a las otras palabras?…”. These are some of the questions that Fontanarrosa, a well-known Argentinian cartoonist and writer, asks himself at […]
Amalia GavinaEven though this documentary does not deal with any type of linguistic subject, I wanted to share it with you because I consider it to be both thought-provoking and inspirational. It is about Aung San Suu Kyi´s life and sacrifices, how she changed her life in […]
It seems that, in today’s society, time has become one of the most valuable assets. People at work and home worry about making the most of it and not wasting it. We try to make the most of our available time when we enrol in […]
Hoy en día, en España, es muy común oír a estudiantes decir que tienen que estudiar inglés para poder “sacarse” un certificado de lenguas determinado. Lo dicen como si fuese un trámite angustiante y agobiante que se quisieran quitar de encima. Hay dos puntos […]
Yesterday, teacher’s day in my country, I read an article in the Buenos Aires Herald newspaper that I liked a lot and, why not saying it, moved me deeply. It was written by a teacher of English who talks about the need she feels […]