Juana and Tatiana

Esta bien

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August 11th 2005
Hola chicas y chicos, all is well here in Ecuador. 6 lessons of Spanish a day are definitely doing my head in and although Senor Fernando is ever so nice, he does go on about irregular verbs in the imperfect tense - not much use for me who still struggles to string together a sentence (ie main clause, SVO structure!). I find the conversations with the locals are a lot more useful and they don ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Otavalo

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more