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Posted on 2020-08-172020-08-12

Learning Spanish from comic strips

What is your favorite comic strip and character? Your answer will most likely give away your age bracket and gender. My wife adores Peanuts and her favorite character is Snoopy. Another comic strip from around the same era is Mafalda which was written and  illustrated by Quino, an Argentine. The main character in Mafalda is …

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English and Chinese are my first 2 languages, fluent by my standard, one acquired and the other my mother tongue. Spanish is a language I'm learning by choice. I believe that my prior experience in learning a second lanaguage will help me for the third.

Language learning is always hard, sometimes even unbearable without a personal interest in the underlying culture. This blog shares about Spanish language and culture learning.

I live in Canada. Because of geographical proximity, this blog will have a Latin American bias.

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