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Cette lumière
There is a moment, sometime in the early afternoon on the Côte d’Azur, when the light does something that is difficult to explain to someone who hasn’t seen it. It doesn’t just illuminate. It saturates. The white walls of the old town glow from within, the sea holds a blue that has no business existing…
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L’ultima cena
There is a door in Milano that most tourists walk past without a second glance. It sits on the side of a red-brick church, unremarkable, easy to miss between a tram stop and a row of shuttered shopfronts. You need a ticket, booked weeks in advance, and a time slot. You wait in a small…
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Everyone is a teacher
One of my best friend, B, is French. We met during university studies in Sweden where we both were studying Business administration. At that time I had been studying French in school but was really struggling speaking. I had even spent a few months in Aix-en-Provence studying French, without an immediate effect. Many years later…
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Passions that unite us
Learning a language is not always associated with lust. Instead, thoughts might go to drilling vocabulary, struggling with tricky French verbs, or German pronoun forms that never quite stick. However, I am convinced that no one would turn down the opportunity to speak more languages. The feeling of effortlessly ordering a coffee in fluent French…
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Places we dream of
A key component in language learning is where the learning takes place. The two most common places today are probably the classroom and the smart phone. Learning a language in a classroom with a teacher is of course a very structured way of learning. And learning a language on a language app on your smart…
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Un premier pas en avant
A first post. Un premier pas. Starting is hard. In French, the verb is commencer. Not too far from communiquer, which means to communicate. And that’s really where it begins for us. Speaking, writing, expressing oneself. But not in Swedish – rather in other languages. We have always been fascinated by languages. By other cultures.…