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When life gives you lemons, it helps to recognize them
I thought my French was good enough to get me around southern France. But language skills were not enough.
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The two dots that will make or break you
Speaking a foreign language can be tricky. Sometimes it can also get you into trouble – serious trouble. German umlauts – those two dots on some vowels. are often the culprit
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Stand down, parler, this word is too good to debauch
Language is constantly in flux. Words come, words go, and sometimes their meaning changes altogether. Long gone are the days when I associated the word “gay“ with being happy, dancing around the room and singing one of my favorite songs from the musical Camelot. When you leave your home country as I did, you must […]
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Italiano – no problemo for meo
I walked into Italian class and saw a room full of pensioners. But I didn’t expect it to be so hard…