Fun and games are great, but hardcore linguistics isn’t bad either This might come off as a little dry, but I would have liked for my beginner level language course not to have started with a famous pop song (like this Flight of the Concords’ song for French) or learning those precious first few…
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Counting the languages you know When I finished secondary school, I thought I knew two and a half languages – my native Estonian, English that I mostly picked up from the media, and some basic German that I had studied from grade six onward. German was always a grey area, as I’d started from scratch in school…
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