As you may have noticed, most people primarily speak and learn vehicular languages (also called lingua franca). This is because they want to be pragmatic and optimize their time and effort by focusing in on a “useful language”. First of all, what makes a language attractive to learn? Here are a few criteria: – Number of speakers – Average wealth…
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Speaking is not only an action which is caused by mouth or larynx but primarily a mind mechanism. Indeed, being able to speak several languages enables to challenge our brain and eventually to speak better. Not only because mastering a new language is not so easy but above all because a language is a new concepts reservoir, provided with various…
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Life can be broken into 3 ages that have their own ressources. Young age : years vary from one culture to another, but it’s basically from 0 to 30 At this stage of life, we are in possession of lots of energy and time, but we usually are deprivated from money (the one that we earn from our work not…
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One day you certainly were exhausted by the city life? A daily contact with crowd, noise and pollution can quickly undermine the energy even for the most urban of us. Leaving to isolate oneself in the forest who never dreamed about it? David Thoreau did it, in 1835, and wasn’t able as today to take a flight ticket to join…
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A summary of the book Homo Deus, a brief history of the future by Yuval Noah Hariri In his book, the author explains that mankind has evolved according to various models of faith. The first one dates from the period preceding the agricultural revolution: animism. Animism marks the period in which the human race was a part of the Mother…
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