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Trying to communicate: the best part of your story.
Trying to communicate: the best part of your story.
16 January 2013
Frequently, people avoid travelling away from tourist focused locations because they're worried about whether they will be understood, I'd suggest that means they miss out of the best part of the experience. msadvn recently said on reddit: The stories of trying to communicate (and hopefully succeeding) might be some of the best parts of your […]
Swedish Language? Difficult to learn?
Swedish Language? Difficult to learn?
6 November 2012
I've studied French and Russian at school, and for about a year, last year, took Swedish language evening classes. People always would drop the question "Is it difficult?". This is a horrible question to attempt to answer – usually, the language isn't really what the answer will relate to, rather the learner's ability and how […]
Does anyone know what Xxx's mean at the end of messages?
Does anyone know what Xxx's mean at the end of messages?
1 November 2012
As the modern, connected world is largely a world of written language, communicating via the medium of text is pervasive and widely used, like never before in history. This has meant that, for many people language and the etiquette surrounding parts of it, has radically transformed. Take Smileys. Smileys are well documented, and actually relatively explicit in […]
How are you?
How are you?
16 September 2012
When people ask me, off the cuff, something simple like: "How are you?" I sometimes find it hard to know how to reply. Obviously, partly this is an age old "I'm human, you're human, we're both alive" statement with no deep meaning, but usually there's also a genuine feeling of "let me know if you're […]
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