Kareen

speaks: French

learns: English, Japanese, Spanish

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Aging & The Japanese concept of "a la foo"

Have you ever heard of the concept of "a la foo" (アラフォー)? This is a Japanese expression that I hear much more than I would care to these days. It means "close to 40 years old". In my native language,
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Jan 31 - 2 min. read

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[writing task] British Stereotypes part 3

I am doing some short Writing tasks to familiarise myself again with using English. It's very conventional and so are the topics at times, but I am very rusty and it's a perfect way to dive in. Here
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Jan 31 - 3 min. read

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Multilingual Bookclub

Ya está! Compré mi libro! Estoy muy emocionada. Pero yo voy a leerle en Ingles. Apprendré un poco Español para 4 semanas en Guatemala, pero fue hace 6 años. Olvidé la mayoria de todos que apprendé en
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Jan 29 - 1 min. read

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[short writing task] British Stereotypes

I am doing some short Writing tasks to familiarise myself again with using English. It's very conventional and so are the topics at times, but I am very rusty and it's perfect to "get wet". Here is
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Jan 28 - 2 min. read

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[short writing task] about Marriage

I was writing this as an answer to friends who were asking how attitudes towrds Marriage are in our respective countries. The crowd was very international and 30% of them were asians. We were all
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Jan 27 - 2 min. read

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[short writing task] TV and Movies

I am doing some short Writing tasks to familiarise myself again with using English. It's very conventional and so are the topics but I am very rusty and it's perfect to "put myself in the bath" again
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Jan 25 - 3 min. read

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