Hope you enjoyed St. John's Eve! If you're now wondering how to keep practicing your language skills through this summer season, here are some links:

For English Learners who want to practice their listening comprehension skills:

http://www.ted.com/talks

If you find it difficult, you can follow along with the transcripts!

If you want to do some summer reading for free, go to:

http://www.gutenberg.org/

You can then go to the Top 100 Books and Authors, look for Audio Books or go to the most popular book at Most Downloaded Books.

As far as news, http://www.euronews.com/ is a good option. You can practice your listening comprehension skills and there are also transcripts.

Then for Spanish news in English, you have http://elpais.com/elpais/inenglish.html

If you want to practice your Spanish, here are a list of online newspapers that will keep you busy: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/spain.htm

And to practice your French, just click here: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/france.htm

And for German, click here: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/germany.htm

Enjoy the summer!!

Wow! Time flies, doesn't it? The summer solstice is fast approaching! Take a look at what it's about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_solstice. Time to enjoy the weather and long days! Practice your favorite outdoor sports and activities! This is it! The southern hemisphere would like to have it this good right now and some of us would love to be in the southern hemisphere come wintertime, so enjoy!

I went out for a bike ride the other day and discovered that the bridge I told you about the other day was open! It actually wasn't too bad going up. I've been in much worse predicaments. Anyway, here's what it looks like from the top:

BCNWorld will be there soon! Enjoy the view!