Hi!

Thanks indeed to all of you who have posted some comments on this blog. For me it's just a start, as my intention is to start another blog soon for my students (or other EFL students), but it's also great to have the possibility of sharing ideas & thoughts with other colleagues.

Someone asked what does the word "Rebumbio" mean? I guess it's a bit tricky even for those of you who can speak Spanish, as this is a word basically used in the Canary Islands. Although we do not have a language of our own apart from Spanish, as people in Catalonia or Galicia do, we do have a Canarian dialect, and I've always been fond of preserving those terms which are part of our cultural background. Rebumbio is one of them, and it means "something messy". I remember when I was a teenager and my mother used to say my bedroom was a real "rebumbio", which meant it was full of different things, and most of them were not in the correct place.

I chose that name 'cause I expected my site to be a place where many different things could be included, and conceived it as an always unfinished web!

For those of you who might be interested in learning more about the Spanish spoken in the Canaries (which by the way has had a great influence from English, and which still preserves some words such as "naife" (fom knife), guiri (to refer to a foreigner) from the English word "girl", or for example a name we give to a specific type of potato "quinegua" (from "King Edward" variety), I'm including  two  links which might be of interest

The Spanish from the Canary Islands

Article by Carmen Luján

I hope this helps to understand the name of this site a bit better!!

Best wishes

Sara