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The Changing World and Why Acculturation Triumphs Over Assimilation The world has been in constant flux, but the pace of change over the last few decades has been breathtaking. Millennials, …
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Dazed in a fool’s paradise. Lat night, I fought in my dreams against an odd enemy. It was big and scary. It was dark and formless. It mutated into many different shapes equally …
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This article was prompted by a conversation with a friend who is also a polyglot and an expat in Spain. Across the world, there are dozens of examples of language policies coercing newcomers into …
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The text below is a summary of the main ideas that capture the origins of the Catalan language taken from gencat.cat and then after there is the main idea that revolves around the controversy of the …
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Czech novelist, Milan Kundera, died aged ninety-four on July 11, 2023, in Paris, France, after a prolonged disease. He left his homeland for France in 1975 after being expelled from the Czech …
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Today, I had an mazing guest on the show. His name is Gabrièu and he hosts a YouTube channel in Occitan. We spoke about the different variants of Occitan in the dialect continuum of the South of …
