Learning A New Language - Spanish

 

I have been learning Spanish on Duolingo for a year for my trips to the Canary Islands of Tenetife and La Palma.

The canary Islands were not named after canaries, birds, but after canines, dogs, Islands with peaks. Points like your canine teeth.

La Palma means the palm. Las Palmas means the palms. Plural. Feminine. 

Los Angeles in the USA means the angels. Plural. Masculine.

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Fathers" Day?

 Is it father's day, the day of one father? In English we use the apostrophe to signal to the reader in a quick way.

The letter s is a handy dual purpose, fuel purpose letter.

Possession

The boy's hat

 One boy.

Father's day. One father.

A father, small initial letter, a type of object or petson

But. 'Please, Father!' Addressing your father or a priest, the capital letter in English is reserved for a proper name, a specific person

In German, all nouns have capital letters. Does the German system have any advantages? For me, as a learner. I can sort out the nouns in a sentence to speed translation

 In some languages you repeat an entire word to show more than one. Jalan jalan in Malay-Indonesian, roads, journeys. You might thînk the benefit of this system is added clarity.

I love learning languages. You discover new ways of thinking and communicating.

Another discovery for travellers is that different

countries celebrate on different days.

Spain's Highest Peak, Mount Teide on Tenerife

 

Tenerife in the Canaries is dominated by the central mountain peak which rises to a point. The opposite of table mountain in South Africa which is flat. My husband and I have been debating the difference between a peak and a mountain. Can one point be the highest peak but not a highest mountain, or vice versa, and is it the same in all languages?

I see a mountain as being like Table Top, gently sloping to you can walk or ride a car, with buildings and towns at the base and half way up and at the top. However, I see a peak as being a point, like a spire, a crag, which you can scale only by artificial means. Peaks as jagged bit of rock, usually higher. Peak means the top. The point. 

Prosecco At Stanste

 

Heathrow has a Champagne bar.

Stansted has a Prosecco bar.

Shakespeare on Canary Winr

 

Canary Wine

 Can is short for the Canary islands. The volcanic islands in mid Atlantic en route from Europe to the Americas, famous then znd now for their wines. Which escaped the phyloxera bugs whick killed off Europe's vineyatds. In the Westerlies trade winds on tje trade route taking cigars fron Cuba. Even on Tenerife , mist and wind makes the black sand dlopes green. 

Shakespeare and the World's Best Wine Museum

 

Casa del Vino de Tenerife. The Canary islands.

Maria José, sommelier.

I loved tours through the Champagne cellars in Rheims. Denbies in the UK had tours of the hillside, or cellars, a supermarket size shop and restaurant. So why am I so excited by my trip to Casa Del Vino, Tenerife, in the Canaries?

You get a free car park and tour of the wine museum. and a honey bee museum.  The Wine Museum also has a shop sellîng wînes and honeys. A restaurant.

The shop had free tester of three aloe vera and other moisturizers.

Or degustation. Costing 16, 20 or 30 Euros in June 2026. Ending with chocolate covered almonds.

We had coffee in the separately operated restaurant which had an English version of their menu offering intriguing, challenging options including broken eggs, wrinkled potatoes with mojo, bigeye tuna, corn cream, black pig cheeks, 

And 

Chocolate, oil and salt.

To get there we flew by Ryanair.

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