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FOCUS ON CULTURAL BLOGS!
The Blogosphere is crackling with activity. We want to help you discover the gems in this universe so that you will be on the cutting edge in teaching culture in the FL classroom.
This Room's spotlight is on bloggers who share their thoughts about living or traveling in places of interest to FL teachers. We will be on the lookout for bloggers who write about their own cultures as well as those who are tourists, study-abroad students, or ex-pats. We will consider bloggers who deal with current topics and those who write about historical events. We expect some blogs to be ongoing while others will cover a specific period of time.
We focus on blogs related to the target cultures of the languages most commonly taught in the US but we will list any blogs we deem of cultural interest to our audience of foreign language educators. If you know of any other interesting blogs, please write to Christine at the NCLRC Culture Club.
Pick your language of interest to start browsing our blogs:
France | Italy | Norway | Spain
CULTURESHOCKS BLOG (http://www.cultureshocksblog.com/)
The purpose of this blog is to showcase amusing and informative incidents of cultural misunderstandings
FRANCE
Perrin-et-fils: Chateau de Beaucastel (http://www.perrin-et-fils.com)
This blog is about winemaking and follows French grapes from the vine to the bottle. It includes photos and short videos (recommended by Abbe Spokane).
Ester Kitchen (http://www.esterkitchen.com/)
This blog is about food, with plenty of recipes and links to other French food blogs. The author is a French lady who is passionate about food, cooking, and kitchen secrets! Enjoy!
Reunion-USA (http://reunion-usa.hautetfort.com/)
The author of this blog is a French woman from Reunion who lives in the USA. She tackles many interesting subjects, from general topics about living in the USA as a foreigner, news and politics, delicious recipes, you name it!!!
Carte Blogstale (http://cdebeauvoir.blog.lemonde.fr/)
This is an incredibly well written and interestingly documented travel blog. The author is a young French journalism major who set off with her backpack to explore Latin America in a 6-month period. Her photos are stunning and her stories very interesting
ITALY
Candice's Blog: (http://candicealdente.blogspot.com/)
Candice, an art history major at the George Washington University, spent the fall 2007 semester abroad in Rome, Italy. While there she created a blog so that she could share her experiences with us. Take a look and see what Candice was doing "When in Rome..."
NORWAY
Marcia Stein’s Blog: (http://www.sonsofnorwayblog.blogspot.com)
An announcement from the Sons of Norway: Sons of Norway has launched a new blog that is currently following Marcia Stein, winner of the 2007 Norwegian Experience Recruitment contest, as she travels across Norway. Read about her exciting trip, see photos of the areas she’s visiting, and learn about the history and modern culture of Norway!
Read all about Marcia’s trip. Each day there are updates about what she’s doing, the exciting things she is seeing and comments from Marcia herself about the overall experience.
SPAIN
Marcos el Madrileño (http://marcosenmadrid.blogspot.com/)
Marcos, a student at the George Washington University, spent the spring 2008 semester studying in Madrid. In this blog he shares his adventures with us.
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