Remember how it seemed that, coming up through school, everybody found a hobby-turned-passion? There was the girl who played the violin so well Stradivarius himself would’ve been proud. Another…
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Thirteen-year-old learns with Rosetta Stone
I am 13 years old and I knew a pretty good amount of Spanish before I bought Rosetta Stone. I had used many different types of learning before. I…
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I Can Talk to My Patients
I can now, not only understand my patients when they tell me their (sometimes quite convoluted) stories of their symptoms, but I can ask questions about the past, the…
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The First 5 Percent
I felt that learning French would be a daunting task as I had no background with the language, and I didn’t understand a single word. Nevertheless, when my
I Met a French Nobel Laureate the Last Time I Was in Paris
The last time I was in Paris, I met a French Nobel laureate. We had a long discussion about how language influences the way we think. One question we…
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