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Jun 2024
37m 5s

Kris Broholm pt.2

Clay
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So nice, you’re hearin’im twice. In this second part of my interview with The Everyman of Dialect Learning™, Kris explains why trees don’t take a day off, opens his scorecard of wins and losses in dialect learning, calls Hungarian crazy, acknowledges that week he spent in a cabin full of Esperantists, reveals a new hobby, has the seed of future Ukrainian studies nurtured in his mind, reflects on his wandering abroad, pinpoints when he gave up trying to live someone else’s dream, shares exciting family news, lets us in on a planned revolution, and recognizes Danish as a proud (potato-in-mouth) dialect of the unified Scandinavian Language.

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