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Chapter 22: Future Conditional
As we made our way home from the DELE A2 exam on our “walk of shame,” the numbness subsided enough to both commiserate and comfort each...
Kay Diaz
Apr 14, 20219 min read
Chapter 21: The Short and the Long of It
–Part One– It Wasn’t My Time The DELE A2 guidelines stipulated that we were to have 12 minutes to prepare for the 12-minute “oral...
Kay Diaz
Apr 1, 202111 min read
Chapter 20: Danger and Delirium
When I found out that the Spanish proficiency exam would be on the morning of September 11, I sighed. As much as we love Madrid, New York...
Kay Diaz
Mar 25, 20219 min read
Chapter 19: Keep it Simple, Stupid
Peering at us through the Skype screen, bookcase behind his right shoulder, our new teacher Hernán reminds me of a bespectacled Ralph...
Kay Diaz
Mar 17, 20215 min read
Chapter 18: Grace Under Pressure
We confess our plight in the face of the grueling DELE A2 exam to Pilar, a recent acquaintance in Madrid. She offers to help. It is...
Kay Diaz
Mar 9, 20214 min read
Chapter 17: Oui, Je Regrette Something
Though the summer’s Black Lives Matter protests and Biden’s rising numbers in the polls made us more optimistic about the situation back...
Kay Diaz
Mar 6, 20216 min read
Chapter 16: Knowledge Gained and an Early Sense of Loss
From mid-April through late July, online Spanish classes with Irene were the organizing principle of our lives. And despite the COVID...
Kay Diaz
Feb 28, 20214 min read
Chapter 15: Preparing for the Worst
Being risk-averse lawyers, readers of history, amateur political prognosticators, and heeders of science, we have come to Spain to live....
Kay Diaz
Feb 25, 20214 min read
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