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Patrick West
All go for lingo
There's an entrenched myth that learning a second language as a grown-up is a Herculean — or even Sisyphean — task. It isn’t
Patrick West
Counterpoints
How Self-Help Doesn’t Help Us
The self-help guru Svend Brinkmann's antidote to self-help culture
Patrick West
Books
No French Please
Sacre bleu! Why bother learning any French when in France you’ll just be humiliated? Let’s study Mandarin, or Arabic, or Spanish in schools instead.
Patrick West
Counterpoints
France
Language
Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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