Become a Discoverer.
Discover more about your world by living in it. Learn languages, arts, and sports through total immersion. Go where you feel uncomfortable until strangers become your friends and you feel at home. This is what we do at Discover Discomfort!
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About Us
Our goal at Discover Discomfort is to try to understand foreign cultures and see strangers in distant lands as different versions of ourselves. We do this by travelling and living in other places, learning language, culture and arts. We share what we learn because we want to see more people doing this too.
So far we’ve learned Egyptian Arabic (see us speaking it here) in Egypt, spent time in Israel/Palestine (see my notes on what to call that place, plus me speaking Hebrew), learned Swahili across East Africa (watch videos of us speaking Swahili) and gone running in Kenya’s “Home of Champions“. Coming soon: Latin dancing in Colombia, plus our ambition to “Go Home” and understand our own cultural heritage.
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Popular Posts
The Trash Just Outside the Frame
What happens to plastics we buy? This is where it goes: trash fires, beaches, and dumps around the world. This is the “Trash Outside the Frame”.… Read More
2020: The year of “Going Home”
2020 – the year of “Going Home” to Korea and Central Asia. And maybe… regional Australia.… Read More
Remembering French in a New France
How France and I evolved in the 16 years since we crossed paths — not in the same directions.… Read More
The Gift of Acceptance
The greatest gift we can give to strangers is acceptance.… Read More
Swahili in Two Months: 60 Day Videos and Recap
Learning Swahili in 60 days – our 60 day recap, plus how we learned Swahili in two months, what resources we used to learn Swahili, and what we’d do differently.… Read More
English Doesn’t Belong to White People
Judging another country’s English as not perfect is at best ignorant, and at worst, racist.… Read More