Welcome to the third podcast interview with Edward Hugh about the Spanish economy. Edward is an independent economist based in Barcelona. He is also a prolific blogger and is frequently quoted in the English-speaking financial press as a reliable source on what’s going on in Spain as the recession continues to unfold.
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If you’ve taught a language, or learnt a language, for any length of time, you will have come across innumerable methods which claim to be the most effective at teaching a student a new language. In all my travels, language learning and language teaching experience, I’ve never been convinced by any one method completely.
Si alguna vez has intentado enseñar o aprender un idioma, te habrás topado con un sinfin de métodos que dicen ser el más eficaz para enseñar al alumno un idioma nuevo. En todos mis viajes y mis experiencias como alumno y profesor de idiomas, nunca me ha convencido del todo ningún método. La mayoría de ellos tiene algo a su favor pero todos parecen fallar también en algo.
The Economist’s excellent new language blog wonders how language affects thought, or vice versa: “IF YOU speak two or more languages fluently, you may be familiar with the feeling that you act differently in them. I tend to be more excitable in Spanish and ruder in Hebrew, for instance, than I am in English.”
El excelente blog nuevo del Economist pregunta cómo afecta el idioma al pensamiento, o viceversa: “Si hablas dos o más idiomas con soltura, puede que te resulte familiar la sensación de que te comportas de una manera distinta según el idioma que estés hablando. Tiendo a emocionarme más en español y a ser más grosero en hebreo, por ejemplo, que cuando hablo inglés.”
Well, July has arrived and yesterday I was doing my quarterly tax returns on the last day (again! Must talk to my inner sergeant-major about that) and revising my invoices, noticing the new 18% VAT rate in Spain. Will it really make a difference to consumers, business people or the government’s tax revenues?






