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AmarensElise

Half-centaur, half-human. I'm an occasional student of linguistics, and full-time sleep deprived. You can find me online, binging anything murder related on Netflix, or off-line, second guessing my life choices.

Learning a language through Netflix is one of the easiest ways of learning a new language. In fact, you might not even notice you are doing it. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy finding content the language you are trying to learn. Luckily, there are ways to make the process of finding foreign-language content a lot …

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Last week I was doing a group project which sparked a rather heated debate – which is correct: “early adopter” or “early adapter“? It’s a mistake that is very commonly made and seems to even divide and confuse native English speakers. Though this is a seemingly small difference between two existing words, both have different …

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By now, the chances are low you have not heard of the ‘#MeToo’ movement, which has empowered women worldwide to talk about their experiences with sexual assault, especially when it comes to awkward experiences at work with powerful figures. The movement quickly spread globally, causing Though attempts to silence women speaking out about these assaults …

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The Lion King intro. Hands down the most epic and memorable movie intro in film history. Who doesn’t have some mental picture of that sun coming up while some incredibly powerful voice sings/shouts something? And while we can never really put our finger on, we know it sounds amazing. If you need a reminder, or …

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