by Conor Clyne | Dec 8, 2020
My Favorite 4 Resources for Learning Russian Learning Russian as a native English speaker is a major undertaking. Before learning Russian, I had so much experience in learning other European languages like French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Irish and Portuguese...
by Conor Clyne | Sep 15, 2016
Descent into wine-laced Italian-Brazil Brazilians of Italian descent make up a large percentage of Brazil’s population (somewhere between 10-15%). Italian-Brazilians are concentrated in the south of Brazil, mainly in the regions of São Paulo, Espírito Santo,...
by Conor Clyne | Jun 25, 2015
Are popular guidebooks like the Lonely Planet worth buying anymore? Buying a guidebook used to be a prerequisite before heading off on a foreign adventure. I invested heavily (both in terms of money and the additional weight in my bag) in the past on many of the top...
by Conor Clyne | May 14, 2015
How Tinder can change the travel experience! Last year, I wrote a review of the popular dating Tinder smartphone app. At the time, I was not very enthusiastic about the app’s usefulness to me but at least it helped me learn lots of phrases for flirting in the...
by Conor Clyne | Apr 9, 2015
Moldova – Polyglot’s Paradise? Moldova is a country of 3.5 million people landlocked between Romania and Ukraine. The country in its present de jure borders was part of the Soviet Union from 1945-1991 after which it became independent upon the collapse of...
