Founder of SPEAK Dhaka. I came to know about SPEAK two years ago from a friend of mine, who participated at one of SPEAK’s Portuguese … Read More ›
Tag: integration
What is Christmas? As Christmas Eve approaches, hundreds of people around the world travel back home to spend the holidays with friends and family. Airports … Read More ›
We can all recognize the need to take a closer look at the migrant and refugee integration process. But do we actually know the real … Read More ›
Working to promote an integrated society I recently had the chance to coordinate the organization Hello Portugal Festival. It was an event about migration and … Read More ›
Apart from a few European member states – notably Italy and Austria where populists have proven unreliable coalition partners and Orban’s authoritarian Hungary, the issue … Read More ›
Integrate into a new country with SPEAK So far present in 8 countries, SPEAK offers a variety of foreign language groups. But many people come … Read More ›
It’s raining in Berlin and someone stole my bed at 3am this evening (crazy, right?). I arrived at 2am to an hostel and chose a 4 bed dorm for my first night. Two beds were free, I picked one randomly. At 3am someone comes in and says: “hey, that’s my bed”. I did that wtf-face but moved to the other option with no resistance. The guy gets my first option preferring a used bed to a new one – sometimes the world is a funny place. Anyway, Berlin is beautiful….
Hi everyone! You may have seen our names pop up on your newsfeeds/discussion groups/emails from time to time, and now that we are leaving the SPEAK team, we thought we would finally introduce ourselves 😉
We are both languages students from the UK, who came to Lisbon to work with SPEAK this year as part of our degree. We never had experience of any kind in start-up projects, so as you can imagine…
In the busy world that we live in today, it can be very easy to get bogged down with the day to day, and to forget the positives not just going on in our own lives, but of the world around us. This week, we decided to recognise some of the little victories for SPEAK and the world. We hope they put a smile on your face!
Do you know how long the shortest reign was for a King in France? Which square in Madrid is the exact centre of Spain? Or which food the Belgians claim to have invented?