Guillaume

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speaks: French

learns: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, Esperanto

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Double u is not a double v

You certainly have already thought about the strange name of this letter in English: w. It's called “double u” though it's obviously a double v. Why is it so? I know the real reason of that but today
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Mar 13 - 1 min. read

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My favourite phone

It was a Samsung. One of the first phones with polyphonic ringings. Each ringing was a classical piece uttered with a very soft sound. When my phone rang everybody around was amazed. “Oh! That's so
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Mar 12 - 1 min. read

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INFP-personality types feel different… even among themselves.

I want to copy here a short comment I've just posted on Facebook. I'm happy I used some of my new vocabulary in it. To give you a bit of context, I posted this comment in the thread of a publication
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Mar 8 - 2 min. read

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Decades from now, will French be more similar to English?

Today I played a word game like I do everyday. It's an equivalent of the famous Wordle but in French, my native language. I couldn't find the right answer. I had the letters DECA_E. I tried the words
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Dec 26 - 3 min. read

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How long the road is!

Some weeks, maybe one month ago, I stopped adding new cards in my Anki because I'd like to spend less time reviewing cards so I can spend more time writing in English. Every morning my number of
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Dec 24 - 1 min. read

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Mi verano en America del Norte - 1a parte, Starmania en esperanto

(Este artículo es una traducción del artículo que escribí en inglés desde hace algunos días.) ¿Por qué fui a Montreal? Por el UK. Nada que ver con el “United Kingdom”. El UK es el “Universala
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Sep 16 - 2 min. read

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My summer in North America - part 1, Starmania in Esperanto

Why did I go to Montreal? Because of the UK. Nothing to do with the United Kingdom. The UK is the “Universala Kongreso” (Universal Congress of Esperanto) and it's pronounced [uko]. Every summer since
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Sep 11 - 2 min. read

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No se trata del clavo

Quiero hablaros de un cortometraje, o quizás debería decir un ”muycortometraje” porque dura sólo un minuto. Pero este minuto me parece llenísimo de sentido y de preguntas importantes. No voy a
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Jul 21 - 3 min. read

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Calore

È difficile vivere questo calore anormale e lo sconforto che viene con lui senza pensare che questo sconforto non sia che la minore delle sue conseguenze negative, cioè le conseguenze
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Jul 20 - 1 min. read

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Searching for the good balance in exercising

I often feel tired during the day. I feel the need to take a nap after lunch, every day, for instance. Actually that's the best way to end the sleep I couldn't finish during the night. Indeed I
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Jul 19 - 1 min. read

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