Take a deep breath about your Catalan exam. Your vocabulary is far superior than most Spanish speakers who try to learn Catalan. Besides, you are not biased by Spanish. Most of the grammar exercises (I've taken a few) are targeted towards not using Spanish structures. In addition your pronunciation is just awesome in Catalan, so you'll do great in the oral. Besides, the examiner will be so appealed that you're from New Zealand YET you are for C level that they will put you a very high mark
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Mmmm, I do have the advantage of having very little Spanish influence on my Catalan (except for 'bueno', which I just can't seem to shake - but I'm blaming pretty much every Catalan I've ever met, except one, for that! ;D) But I do have quite a limited vocabulary still and there were a LOT of words I didn't know, which meant I had to guess the questions. I might pass, if I got lucky with enough guesses, but in that case is it really accurate to claim that I have Level C Catalan? :S
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That's the weekend I'm starting my vacations... So we have to postpone until right after, early July or something... I'll be working until 3pm, so I can always go to Sitges, meet a couple of friends there and meet you after work or something, ok?
Hmmm, well, I'll be spending all day Monday to Friday in Barcelona, from June 28th to July 23rd (doing an intensive TEFL course). The course goes from 10am to 4pm or 7pm, every day, depending on which days I have teaching practice or not. (you can see now why I'm so mad that I've had that 5 or 6 day respite taken away from me, no?)
If our lunch timetables coincide, we could have lunch together one day in July but, otherwise, it'd probably still have to be a weekend. Anyway, we can sort it out closer to the time.
Sometimes I love the relaxed and laidback way of doing things here but sometimes it makes me want to belt people.
Should I be offended? ;)
Regarding travelling around the UK - all I'll say is book your train/bus tickets waaay in advance or be ready to say bye-bye to your savings. When it comes to long distances, there isn't a set price for going from A to B, but it works pretty much like planes - the first few people to book don't pay much, but the last make up for it!
Unless you have messed me around lately, no, you needn't be offended. :)
Mmmm, thanks for the advice on the UK - I really need to get on with deciding, otherwise that's probably going to be the situation with everything, from flights to accomodation. Even in th UK and Ireland, where I can stay with family in at least one city of each country, travel could get pricey if I don't organize myself soon!
Travelling, you say? I'd be interested in potentially joining you on a leg of your journey... (will have to see about work and money stuff, but I might be able to swing it)
Britain/Ireland is probably more do-able but don't make your plans around me - things are a bit up in the air at the moment. I'm really poor, but yeah, want a holiday too :(
I'm looking at websites at the moment, trying to work out what I want to do, what costs are like in various places (I hear Scandinavia is pretty expensive, in general) and I'm hoping to make a decision by the weekend, so I'll let oyu know what I'm doing and you can see if it works for you or not (and if not, we'll go trekking together some other time :) ).
By the way, I keep meaning to ask you, with your knitting commissions etc that you do, you don't by any chance have a Paypal account set up, do you?
We ran out of S.L. coffee awhile ago and we neeeeed more! But there's a fairly hefty base fee for transferring money to accounts outside of Spain, so I thought if you have a Paypal account, I could whack some money in there and get you to buy up some more for us. Would that be do-able?
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But I do have quite a limited vocabulary still and there were a LOT of words I didn't know, which meant I had to guess the questions. I might pass, if I got lucky with enough guesses, but in that case is it really accurate to claim that I have Level C Catalan? :S ( ... )
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(you can see now why I'm so mad that I've had that 5 or 6 day respite taken away from me, no?)
If our lunch timetables coincide, we could have lunch together one day in July but, otherwise, it'd probably still have to be a weekend.
Anyway, we can sort it out closer to the time.
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Should I be offended? ;)
Regarding travelling around the UK - all I'll say is book your train/bus tickets waaay in advance or be ready to say bye-bye to your savings. When it comes to long distances, there isn't a set price for going from A to B, but it works pretty much like planes - the first few people to book don't pay much, but the last make up for it!
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Mmmm, thanks for the advice on the UK - I really need to get on with deciding, otherwise that's probably going to be the situation with everything, from flights to accomodation. Even in th UK and Ireland, where I can stay with family in at least one city of each country, travel could get pricey if I don't organize myself soon!
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Wasn't sure about your current funds status and, as I say, I'm still dithering a bit about exactly where to go.
Would you be interested/able only if I choose the Britain/Ireland trip or are the other options a possibility for you as well?
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I'm looking at websites at the moment, trying to work out what I want to do, what costs are like in various places (I hear Scandinavia is pretty expensive, in general) and I'm hoping to make a decision by the weekend, so I'll let oyu know what I'm doing and you can see if it works for you or not (and if not, we'll go trekking together some other time :) ).
By the way, I keep meaning to ask you, with your knitting commissions etc that you do, you don't by any chance have a Paypal account set up, do you?
We ran out of S.L. coffee awhile ago and we neeeeed more!
But there's a fairly hefty base fee for transferring money to accounts outside of Spain, so I thought if you have a Paypal account, I could whack some money in there and get you to buy up some more for us.
Would that be do-able?
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