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12-16-2009, 03:36 PM
The problem with reading books is that an awful lot of what you will be reading with be in 3rd person.
The practicalities of general conversation however, required you to speak in 1st or 2nd person.
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12-16-2009, 06:39 PM
What about the relevancy of portuguese? I hear that Brazil is THA place to go in latin america, ESPECIALLY for the women.
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12-16-2009, 06:44 PM
Quote: (12-16-2009 03:36 PM)Lumiere Wrote:
The problem with reading books is that an awful lot of what you will be reading with be in 3rd person.
The practicalities of general conversation however, required you to speak in 1st or 2nd person.
yes and no. verb tenses are not a part of getting good at spanish.. mastery of the very tenses is a low-intermediate stage. turns of phrase, colloquialisms, multiple ways to say the same thing, subtleties, etc.. all come from reading. not to mention, you wont get through a chapter or even a few pages in most books without running through every verb tense conjugation.
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10-10-2010, 03:15 PM
What about Portuguese instead of SPanish?
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10-10-2010, 10:18 PM
Great thread!
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10-11-2010, 12:09 AM
Yep.
I would like some more solid info on the best way to use the air miles though.
I have not claimed the air miles on any program. What's the best way to tackle the air miles system?
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10-11-2010, 03:14 PM
Sick post! I'm guessing you're back in London by now. Do you have any memorable photos/stories. Did you travel East-->West or West-->East?
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10-11-2010, 03:17 PM
By the way. Live Mocha is another good language learning resource. I've started a pretty solid friend base in SA/Europe from that site alone.
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03-02-2011, 08:39 PM
I've used that same ticket, it was good as you get a lot of connections and as Lumiere says it's very flexible. This was a few years ago but I'm sure I paid way less than what you quoted, closer to £1200, at the price you quoted I'm not sure if I'd do it.
I'm in Colombia at the moment, it was about £550 return from London, it's not expensive to fly within Colombia or to visit some of the surrounding countries and I could do this almost five times for the price of the rtw ticket without being locked into an itinerary or having to keep heading in one direction.
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03-02-2011, 08:48 PM
The rtw ticket was $4,000 US not pounds. Also is does not make sense to put internal flights on a rtw ticket as you waste one of your 16 segments that you could have used on an international flight.
I made all of my legs on the rtw ticket international direct flights only and then just bought domestic flights when I arrived in the country if I needed them.
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03-02-2011, 09:53 PM
Damn Lumiere you are my hero. How much longer do you plan on doing this? I looked at it before and I understand that you have to take it in one direction, you cannot backtrack.
What do you reckon was the amount you spent or had saved for this journey?
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03-03-2011, 01:55 AM
US$ 4k for the rtw ticket
Have been on this trip since Aug 2009 and spend on average about $1k pm to live comfortably so about $22k spread over 18 months