Unfortunately for the French, they’ve managed to accumulate an unfair number of negative stereotypes over the years, most of which are fairly unfounded, or at the very least highly dated, but we’re not here to play on those right now. A popular English idiom – pardon my French, or occasionally excuse my French – is…
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This article is sponsored by Preply Learning a second language can enrich your life in ways you wouldn’t imagine. Your international travel becomes easier, you become more marketable as a potential employee, it can play a role in getting you get into college, and help you meet new people. However, learning a foreign language…
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Avast me hearties! September 19th be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Talk Like a Pirate Day is a “parody holiday” on which everyone, everywhere, is instructed to, well, talk like a pirate. Go figure. However, it has taken the Internet by storm lately, and the population in general since it was created in 1995.…
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It’s not every day that I come across a new language learning app that I actually like, and I’ve done a lot of product reviews lately – something I kinda swore off several months ago. What can I say, I’m being retro. In any case, several weekends ago, I was lying in bed after an…
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Books are a generally happy and wholesome topic that most people who aren’t Kanye West agree are interesting, valuable, or otherwise just generally positive elements in our lives. I very recently wrote a lengthy article about Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press and, despite its enormous impact on European life and the trajectory of the world thereafter,…
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Despite what your weird cousin Dave says, politics are essential to a functioning society and very much matter. Politics touch on nearly every single level of life, and not caring about them at all isn’t something a responsible adult should do. But, while the messiness of politics raises tensions, causes enormous rifts in morality and compassion between opposing idealists, this ugliness makes it the perfect primordial soup for spawning some of the best insults ever and some really good comebacks to pair with them.
