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The tour guide, Tuji, shows a lake

How do we tell if one is good at a language? Sometimes one is just doing literal translation on the fly, which is a fake kind of fluency. Intended conversation: Tuji: There was a beautiful lake here. Tourist: How sad. However when this conversation is conducted in another language which

Tuji Apr 8, 2019 • 1 min read
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Pasta, Coffee and Time

The most amazing thing with the Italians is their vocabulary for pasta and coffee. The world is blessed with a wealth of words for varying shapes of pasta and varying proportion of milk to coffee. When it comes to time, the English-speaking world is a mess. People have not reached

Tuji Aug 11, 2018 • 1 min read
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