Dateline: South Jersey

I’ll try to do a make-up Monday Mystery later this week, but for today I just wanted to update you on our progress. We’re now in South Jersey, the southern half of the state of New Jersey, visiting my mother in Marlton, NJ. We’re also going to be staying  in our first airbnb rental in the neighboring town of Moorestown for the next 9 days while we’re here. Continue reading

Thinking of You

IMHO, one of the most difficult parts of mastering a foreign language is learning when and where to use the right form of the pronoun “you”. You see,  in many languages, including Italian and German, the two which I have most recently attempted to master,  you need to figure out when to use the “you-familiar” familiar  and when to use the “you-polite” form. The rules that govern when one does this vary from language-to-language and culture-to-culture, and they aren’t necessarily written down or easy to follow. Continue reading