Dhivael/Anne’s Hyperactive Blog

It used to be the ‘thing’ for average people to spend a few weeks in Europe. These days, I don’t think most people travel abroad, for one reason or another. Personally, however, I would love to be able to go to Europe. Anywhere, almost, for at least a few days.

But once I got there, where would I go? Luckily, it is possible to download an audioguide to listen to on your MP3 player of cities in Europe. Paris, London, Rome, Barcelona. And in multiple languages, too!

I’m considering downloading the ones in French and Spanish, even if I can’t actually visit the cities, so that I’ll have some extra language stuff to listen to.

There are so many expressions in English that get borrowed from other languages. Some of them get pretty mangled in the translation. Sure, you may know what ‘a la mode’ means for us English speakers, but what about French speakers? You may or may not know that it means ‘fashionable’. What that has to do with ice cream, I have no idea…

So many phrases are borrowed, ad nauseam, that you may want to look at this list of borrowed Latin phrases, or this one of French phrases.