MyDestination.com Founders Coming To Latin America!

Dear Expat Women Members,
Recently, we introduced you to our new Bronze Sponsor, the award-winning MyDestination.com, and their exciting franchise opportunity for people passionate about their current location and interested in a genuine business opportunity.
Interested in meeting Neil and James in Latin America?
This month, the founders of MyDestination.com, Neil Waller and James Street, are traveling to Latin America to meet with potential franchisees. If, after reading their franchise information, you are genuinely interested in meeting these two dynamic gentlemen, they expect to be in Latin America the week …

30 days to go
We’ve raised nearly $700!

To all of you who have donated, thank you so much! We’re that much closer to our end goal.

Donate: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danielcasey/gently-read-literature

Remember, Gently Read Literature is a free publication. This fundraising drive is meant to allow GRL to pay the freelance reviewers that make GRL what it is–a thoughtful, in-depth monthly magazine devoted to critical reviews of contemporary poetry and literary fiction.

If we reach the set goal of $5000, then Gently Read Literature will have enough funds to pay contributors for the next 3 years!

But, unless …

This is reposted from General Linguistics

Hola,
Next time some tool is messing with you, diss him double with comebacks in English and in Spanish, try this:

“Tiene más punta una pelota”
TRANSLATION: Even a ball is sharper than you, aka you’re an idiot.
HOW IT WORKS: the literal translation is “[It] has more point a ball.” In Spanish, usually the pronoun is inferred. Because tiene is uniquely the 3rd person present form of the verbTENER (to have), the “it” is kind of unnecessary.
Unless, of course, you are trying to learn the language…
That’s …

Frommers Argentina 3rd Edition:
http://www.frommers.com/store/9781118009789.html

Castellano/Ingles/Spanish/English
Hi everyone,
It’s Michael (Miguel) Luongo, the journalist who writes the book Frommers Buenos Aires and other things.
This note is a little bit late, but I want to tell you that the new Frommers Buenos Aires, 4th edition, the most popular U.S. published guidebook for visiting the Argentine capital, is available now. In reality, it has been available for more than a month, but I am just sending the note now. Within Buenos Aires, you might be able to purchase the book at a Distal on Calle Florida.
For …

Dear friends:

This Saturday  from 7pm to 9.30pm the 1st of October we are going to meet at Pizza Mass
As usual, we are going talk Literature, Art, Fútbol, and Politics while practicing our English and Spanish and French in a cosy atmosphere.

At PIZZA MASS.
Sarmiento 1601 (Corner Montevideo)
at Paseo La Plaza

Buenos Aires City

Look forward to seeing you

Cheers
Pablo

contact: Pablo Laurito 
e-mail: potenza78ar@yahoo.com.ar
tel: 15-5885-3322

Free Spanish Class
NOTE new time and place! Come take advantage of our Free Spanish conversation class, and learn together with nice people and a great teacher. There is a basic class at 7 PM, and an intermediate class at 8 pm. Space is limited, and please mail us to RSVP if you wish to join our lovely teacher Cristina Gioveni. Please note this class will be held in different parts of the city where you’ll get a chance to explore a new place, try a new dish or simply experience …

The Dirty Life

By Kristin Kimball
276 Pages, Scribner
reviewed by Stephen Page

A successful freelance writer with a degree from Harvard lives on the trendy Upper East Side of New York (OK, so she lives in a walkup across the street form the Hells Angels main headquarters building—but the area is becoming popular for aging preppies, so rent and property prices are rising).   She gets a hack job from a magazine editor to drive out to small plot of land just past the Big Apple’s suburbs to interview an educated neo-hippie who is …

Follow this site and Study Spanish: Bueno, entonces

Hola,
Let’s be honest, when has anyone ever found themselves in a Spanish speaking city and actually needed the phrase “Donde está la biblioteca?” Right?

Wouldn’t you rather take a Spanish class that taught you something you actually WANTED to learn?
Like this funny phrase you could use to describe the relationship between Beavis and Butthead or perhaps two attached-at-the hip friends of your own:
“Estan culo y calzoncillo”
Estar is one of the verbs in Spanish that means “to be”, and estan is the verb estar conjugated for the third person …

La Chacra Villa, Punta del Este, Uruguay

Dear Writers:
Ready for a week of creative pampering? Eager to explore new ways to express yourself, or hungry to finally finish that book? Dreaming of a stay in an exotic and luxurious new locale, known as the Riviera of South America? Now you can have it all. Pack your bags, pens, notebooks and laptops! Discover the stories inside you. Perfect for seasoned writers or beginners alike. All are welcome.

Ancient forest bordering La Chacra Villa
LOCATION: Picture a 7-night stay at luxurious, secluded La Chacra Villa, …