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Music in Paris in the railway stations

8/31/2016

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You've probably seen and heard the pianos in trains stations in Paris. It's such a great idea that it's hard to believe it was only started in 2012. Read and listen.
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100 Years of National Parks to whet your appetite

8/26/2016

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This travel article is chock full of links about US National Parks including info, advice, photos and anecdotes – enough to lose myself (yourself) for hours. I think I'll start planning my next trip.
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Soda vs Pop vs Coke: Mapping How Americans Talk

8/21/2016

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soda vs pop vs coke video
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​In case you were wondering, I came up 100% Chicago (even after 30 years away).
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The Biles, frame by frame

8/13/2016

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The Biles
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England's Reflexive Pronoun Epidemic

8/9/2016

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Click myself
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Insights into learning French... and English

8/8/2016

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New Yorker article
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QUOTE The crazy thing is that once you’ve internalized the vocabulary you have to figure out how it goes together. In a language with sixty thousand words, there are approximately a hundred billion trillion ten-word combinations that make grammatical sense. Knowing which permutations work is, to some extent, intuitive. But fluency is also a function of familiarity, as grammar offers few clues as to the parts of speech that are not so much idioms as loose affinities. How is one to know that inclement almost always goes with weather; that aspersions are cast but insults hurled; that observers are keen; that processions are orderly; that drinks, as someone apparently decreed sometime in the early years of this century, must be grabbed and e-mails shot? In English, I strained to avoid such formulations. But in French conformity was my ambition. Speaking offered a sense of community, the rare chance to crowdsource my personal thesaurus. I was trying to join in, not to distinguish myself. I wasn’t a writer but a speaker. I wasn’t an observer but a participant. It was such a happy thing to strive for a cliché. UNQUOTE  by Lauren Collins
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