language 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
language 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