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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.

.. and it’s everything we have ever needed.  Have you ever done something and thought “I am sure there is a some foreign word that describes this exact thing, and if there isn’t there should be”. We know about “hygge”, we know about “lagom”, and they might describe our lives as we picture them. But …

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  Before now, if you want to learn a foreign language, you’ll first be advised to travel to the country that speaks that native language and this could get one discouraged most because of financial constraint; cost of travel. Today, one can learn almost any language that exists from mobile or desktop apps. You could …

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Who doesn’t love a good TED Talk? At the very least they tell you something you didn’t know before. At the very best they inspire you to become a smarter, wiser person. If you are a language fanatic (like most of us here at the Foreign Language Collective), you will especially love all of these interesting …

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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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