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The story behind Canada’s most distinctive verbal tic. (2017)
Four ways to learn basic fluency in any language for your next vacation so you can better interact with locals, get around, and not get ripped off. (2014)
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If the Germans have always had a funny bone in them, just how did this unfortunate stereotype come about? (2020)
We make more measured decisions when thinking in another language, but we're also less likely to be accurate, researchers say. (2019)
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How we learn languages in canned phrases, and what that means for the teaching of English. (2019)
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New France was not the Golden Age nationalist myth-makers made it out to be (2009)
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The 8th edition of the EF English Proficiency Index ranks 88 countries and regions by their English skills. (2018)
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