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Share your stories of the languages, cultures and heritage shared by almost a billion people worldwide

Matthew Clapham
Iberospherical
Published in
4 min readJan 25, 2024

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A lone surfer wades into the Atlantic Ocean with their board.
We are never alone, but always accompanied by the waves that flow unceasingly around the globe. (Photo by Juli Kosolapova on Unsplash)

Do you live in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking country? Were you born in one? Have you ever visited or dreamed of visiting any of the thirty or so nations and regions that share the cultural and linguistic influence of Iberia? Or do you just love fado or samba, flamenco or salsa, Almodóvar or Niemeyer?

And above all — do you have a story to share about it? If so, Iberospherical has a home for your words.

Somewhere on Medium, in a place whose name I hope you will care to remember, as Cervantes might have said.

So if there is anything you have written, or plan to write, that you think would fit here, please just leave a comment on this article with your Medium tag and a cheery ‘hola/olá’. I’ll add you as a writer as soon as I can.

The aim here is for a broad church, thematically and stylistically. Two things that I don’t particularly favour — though ultimately the only rules in life are that there are no rules — are ‘things to see in *****’ articles that could just be copied from a tourist board website, and stories that read like moany criticisms of a country or its people by a…

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Matthew Clapham
Iberospherical

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.