Loca Lingo Multicultural

Yes indeed, why would you think there would be a standardized, plain american English in a 9,161,923 sq km country ? Ironically, Cultures are different in the nest of globalisation… “languages” as well - this is bit too harsh maybe ; accents, word focus that could lead to a certain type of dialects within the more local classes (usually less educated). For more information, help yourself with the following link… From the New England Dialects (Boston), the New York Dialects, the Great Lakes Dialects, the Upper Midwest Dialects, the Midland Dialects and the Western ones… which adds a bit more than a classical “Northern-Southern” opposition…

Drawings of people sitting on the subway (Tokyo, Sao Paolo, London, Lisbon, Athens,…), by Jorge Antonio Gonçalves. Click here

It is just a nice book about things we might have forgotten as adults… IF you have/had kids, you would understand. If you haven’t any yet, I hope you’ll discover the joy of it… click here

Certified 100% pure intentions

If you want to go and medidate at artists-who-developed-once-humanity’s graves (classic music, opera, theatre, painting) click here - Molière, Alfred de Musset, Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, Jean de La Fontaine, Beaumarchais (writers, theaters, poems), Gioacchino Rossini, Georges Bizet, François-Felix Fauré, Frédéric Chopin, Michel Petrucciani, Edith Piaf, Jim Morrison, Maria Callas (composers, musicians, singers), Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Eugène Delacroix, Amadeo Modigliani, Dominique Ingres (painters)…

Who said that popularity/genious equaled to richness/love ? By the condition of the graves, you can tell who had a comfortable death, and the ones who got “forgotten”…

or the “Sudden Wealth Syndrom”,
by Larry Brillant. Don’t shoot yourself, nor commit suicide after having watched this video. Our world is not that gloomy, c’mon, “always look on the bright side of life” (whistle, whistle) !

You are right… the editorial is pretty weird ; not many articles (1 or 2 a month), sometimes in French, sometimes in English - no advertising, no clear editorial line, sometimes articles about Belgium, about the Balkans, songs, jokes… and a bunch of pretty personal ways to express viewpoints. Yes, this blog is just for my own pleasure, I’ll try to be more active in the coming months,… like in the old times when I wrote something different every day.

Hereunder is a reader’s world map for the past 2 months (yeah, I know, this is pretty limited).
France and the US seem to be the most enclined to read my articles ; Top10 being France, US, Belgium, Canada, Germany, UK, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, the Netherlands. From a language point of view, French, closely followed by English, and then far away German, Dutch, Polish, and so on.
Interesting to notice a few countries haven’t been “enlightened” by my bulb yet… I could maybe understand for Honduras, Cuba, Algeria, Iraq, Central Asia, North Korea, Burma, Sudan, Zimbabwe,… but for Serbia, and Estonia, I am a bit puzzled (and sad:-( very great countries).

Localingo, the blog at least - the business itself (teaching languages on the internet) probably won’t never be operational - will never be plugged off. It will maybe last 10 years, 20 years, or why not during my whole life (it is already ON for 2 years).

As maybe the earliest readers noticed, the style changed (and still does), the way to approach “ethnical specificities” - the concept I cherish - as well.

There is no advertising on this site, I have been sometimes approached by companies or writers to talk about their books, but well, I have never shown much of enthousiasm (maybe these were not that great), and time did the rest. Sometimes, I participated to “blog buzzes”, created some even, but the blog sphere is a merciless one, where the most successful ones are often hiding marketing agencies behind, or freelancers just in love with this medium (total respect), and (let’s be honest) very talented.

To carry on this honesty attitude, when I started this blog experience, I wanted to make money with LocaLingo, but well, a year ago, I realized with the kind of blog I am writing, this would be very difficult… I want to write about what I like, not what people want to read about ; and this is a very strategic mistake - a common one by the majority of the bloggers.

I might put some “google” style advertising though in the future… maybe, just for the sake to pay the server - hopefully, you won’t mind, even if this could lead to a “keyword strategy”. Let’s see.