Day 113, Year of #Mygration: A la cama no te irás sin saber una cosa más

For Inma and me, as part of our research project, the aim was to explore new pedagogical possibilities by breaking down and going beyond traditional classroom boundaries and rules. This was fully achieved in the case of the Spanish teacher featured in this video. Little did she know that as she was teaching others around the table about the Spanish saying that proclaims that every day is an opportunity to learn new things she was about to do just that, learn something new. It takes her a few seconds to realise that the French version of the saying for ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’ mentioned in the conversation is a carbon copy of the Spanish one. Her face is priceless as she makes the discovery. We can only imagine that this experience has been repeated countless times over recent centuries in encounters between French and Spanish speakers. And it keeps adding weight to the wisdom that the initial saying carries – every day is indeed a chance to learn something new. We have to wonder though if everything new is good or not?

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