Smiley's Tropical Escape Vox 2008-06-09T23:32:43Z Smiley http://smiley.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c2251e70a18e1d/tags/english/ Sad Songs on a Broken Ukelele English Is tag:vox.com,2008-06-09:asset-6a00c2251e70a18e1d00fae8c139e6000b 2008-06-09T04:40:19Z 2008-06-09T23:32:43Z Smiley http://smiley.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom A student asked me if English is a beautiful language. I answered no. English is not a beautiful language, English is... One summer, I traveled around Italy as a student. While strolling through the market in Florence I saw this German girl at...

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]]> The Honeymoon Report, Part 1 tag:vox.com,2007-08-29:asset-6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398a2a0dc0003 2007-08-29T13:04:43Z 2007-08-29T13:04:43Z Smiley http://smiley.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Now Last Saturday saw my wife and I returned home from a two week, three country tour of Europe. It was fun, exciting, interesting, expensive, and exhausting. We loved it. We're now at home, sorting through the accumulated detritus of travelin...

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]]> Words tag:vox.com,2007-06-06:asset-6a00c2251e70a18e1d00cd9730fa3a4cd5 2007-06-06T00:36:47Z 2007-06-10T10:20:48Z Smiley http://smiley.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom English grammar is...well, there's not one single adjective that seems to work. After all, English is a mish-mash and hodge-podge of the Romance and Germanic languages, not to mention being a common tongue, trade language, and tourist language. ...

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]]> QotD: Speak To Me In... tag:vox.com,2006-09-14:asset-6a00c2251e70a18e1d00c2252635c98fdb 2006-09-14T05:01:18Z 2006-09-14T05:48:41Z Smiley http://smiley.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom How many languages can you speak? Which languages can you read or understand? I speak English fluently, Japanese ok, Spanish a bit, and Italian just enough to make an ass out of myself. I read and write a fair bit of Italian, as well as a fair...

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