You arrived fluent enough to get by, maybe even confident, and then something shifted. Suddenly you are stumbling over words in meetings, laughing a beat too late at jokes, or going quiet at dinner tables where everyone else seems completely at ease. Language...
I’m scared shitless. No other way to put it. In a few days, I’m stepping onto a stage to share this story—this very personal, raw, messy story—about how I lost myself and found my way back as an expat. And while I’m terrified, I’m doing it anyway. Because one of my...
How many languages do you speak? As an Expat the chances are you’re probably learning an additional language to your native one. Multilingual benefits are many and can make your life abroad wonderful! I’m originally from Chile so for me, when I became an...
This article comes from Claudia and Dani, the writers behind the Sincerely, Spain blog. Both Claudia and Dani grew up in the American Midwest but didn’t meet each other until they were living abroad in the south of Spain. For the past three years, the pair have been...
Being in a expat relationship is an adventure sometimes not easy to navigate. Be aware of the cultural and idiomatic differences, but also of the language in which your better half expresses his/her love, and you’ll enjoy a beautiful and profound partnership, wherever...
“German words are alphabetical processions” – Mark Twain It was a month after the February 27th earthquake in 2010, a tremendous eruption of a volcano in Iceland Eyjafjallajökull, for those who remember, hahaha). Up to the week before airplane...
