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Learning a new language is always difficult. You have to learn a completely new form of expressing yourself. My personal experience learning this new language was quite funny. I learned Slovak language during an exchange year; so most of my learning consisted in listening to conversations and repeating the words I understood and remembered. But as …

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When do you know you are fluent in a language? ¨You know you are actually good at speaking another language when you stop getting compliments¨ This is what a Russian woman once told me. She lived in our neighbourhood and I had never really talked to her and had honestly always assumed she was Dutch, …

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We all know speaking multiple languages has it´s benefits. It makes traveling easier, it makes watching movies easier, it makes meeting people from other parts of the world easier. Coincidentally those three things are also my favorite hobbies, shortly followed by ‘learning languages´. However, making life easier and more interesting isn´t the only benefit ‘bilingualism’ …

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