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Discover more about your world by living in it. Learn foreign languages through immersive study. Master new skills by going to where they do them best. Go to where you feel uncomfortable, until strangers become your friends and you begin to feel at home.
I was apprehensive upon returning to France for the first time in sixteen years since studying here in 2003. Now I’m back, on a project, and many things plagued me. What would I order in restaurants now that I can … Read More
The greatest gift we can give to strangers is acceptance.… Read More
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
Judging another country’s English as not perfect is at best ignorant, and at worst, racist.… Read More
I’m called lao-wai in China. We’re called agaanib in Egypt and wazungu in East Africa. But even those we’re those things, we’re other people, and we’re ourselves.… Read More
Did you know that to say “7am” in Zanzibar, you say “one o’clock”? That’s called Swahili Time. It’s just one of many things we learned about living in Zanzibar.… Read More
The complicated politics of nation, cultural identity and religion in Israel, Palestine or whatever you want to call “this part of the world”.… Read More
Hebrew is thousands of years old and yet has evolved into a language that many use as their primary — or only — language. This is its story.… Read More
The story of the Zabaleen – “Garbage People” who have for generations been the informal backbone of Cairo’s waste management.… Read More
