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Jun 2023
6m 9s

A Language Is Like a Lump Of...

Steve Kaufmann
About this episode
Travelling around Poland has made me realize that there is always more to a place than initially meets the eye. This is true for cities and also languages. When we start exploring a language we see that what we thought was the big picture was only a part of it. I love this about the language learning journey! 
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