I would like to improve my Portuguese. I can’t find any classes except for beginners.

<>Please let me know if you are aware of any lessons or class that I can take.

I used to live right next to a Peets, or some other coffeeshop, where I would often do homework. Occasionally I would sit next to a couple of people speaking in Spanish, which is my first language. So even if I didn’t want to be eavesdropping, I would catch phrases of what they were saying [...]

It’s the end of the semester (whew) and time to think about redesigning the site to make it more suitable for our own needs. How has your experience been reading and writing on this blog? What would this site look like ideally? What features need to be changed, added, or improved upon? If you have [...]

I must begin by saying that, while my first semester at

Cal has been a truly enriching experience, the city of

Berkeley has had a far greater impact on me culturally, than the university itself. Because I am also a waitress as well as a student, I cannot [...]

The one pet-peeve I have that I just cant seem to get over is hearing people use the word “good” as an adverb. I usually catch myself before correcting people when I hear the mistake (I know it’s a pet-peeve of most people to be corrected on grammatical errors), but on the occasions [...]

My family and I lived in the Suburbs of New York City until I was 16, when we moved to California. Even though these are two states in the same nation, I noticed many examples of the culture differences that you’d see from one country to another. I think that part of the reason that [...]