by AZ World | Apr 11, 2025 | Contributed by Carlos Bottner
Spanish and Portuguese are Romance languages derived from vulgar Latin and share many similarities, but they also have key differences in grammar, phonetics, and vocabulary. It is a case they are comparable to the Germanic languages, German and Dutch. I was the 60th...
by AZ World | Mar 14, 2025 | Contributed by Carlos Bottner
“Can I start my presentation now?” “Not yet, Carlos!”, said our client contact, “The engineer has not arrived yet.” 2016 was an important year for me. I participated in a business trip to Lima, Peru. I was at the offices of “Metro de Lima” (the Lima subway) and the...
by AZ World | Jan 31, 2025 | Contributed by Carlos Bottner
I had to attend a Unix course that was being taught at the time by Sun Microsystems (which was later acquired by Oracle). I drove the 200 miles from Long Island to Maryland and as the sun set on the horizon, I started humming the songs I heard on the radio. Suddenly I...