Back to school! A hedonic fling, or the solution to it?
When summer is over and september comes, quite a few people begin to think of a sort of autumn resolution. […]
Lame Excuses You Should Ditch Right Now
How often do you find excuses not to practice?Here are the most popular ones and how to fight them or […]
status symbol
In Maslow’s well-known hierarchy of needs, he ranks belonging and esteem as critical needs, right after things like food, water, […]
Why should you watch (listen to) series?
podcasts are ok too, of course. You might have heard it many times, countries without dubbed movies have better english […]
This story is about misunderstandings
When I was a teenager I had a friend who used to go by the name of Marco, his name […]
Bottleneck
/He opens his mouth//but the words won’t come out//He’s choking, how?/ You might have recognized the lyrics …. it’s an […]

”cherry-picking” and actually having fun
A few days ago I was watching a guy picking wilberries, he was waist deep in the thorny bushes all […]
Bilingual or demented, that is the question
Multilingualism series 3 by Anthony Fornaro Lately I have been wondering if my language skills are slowly and irremediably shrinking. […]
The need of interpreting needs
Multiligualism series 2 By Anthony Fornaro To interpret – to decide what the intended meaning of something is. This is quite a wide explanation for […]
Market, Supermarket and Language-market
Multilingualism series 1 By Anthony Fornaro “You can find that in aisle 12, just after the south-eastern languages sector” imagine […]
The Way of St James: A Short Tale
By Anthony Fornaro “Leave to get lost,Leave to find oneself. The kindest thing you could,Is leave. Leave to come back.” […]
Chronobiology
Ultradian , Circadian and Infradian rhythm I recently read about chronobiology, not rocket science don’t worry.I want to talk about […]
Attitudes to Language Learning
by Anthony Fornaro No one ever taught me how to speak English (not even in school!) nor that this language […]
Italian Learners of English
By Anthony Fornaro English as a Foreign Language has been acquiring quite the importance in the Linguistics world throughout the […]

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