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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Are you really being coerced into speaking a certain language?
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 origins of the Catalan language and the linguistic controversy.
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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Literature, emotions and language… a reckless marriage?
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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Amazing interview in Occitan and Catalan with Gabrièu Pelisson from Parpalhon Blau!
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 …
Can mindfulness help you learn languages?
If I can give my two cent’s worth, mindfulness —however you wish to define it— can be an excellent tool to learn any new skill, including a foreign language. I have been asked several times how I …
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