Topic: Language and Linguistics
Holocaust survivor Veil joins Academie Francaise
AP News
Holocaust survivor and ex-European Parliament leader Veil joins revered Academie FrancaiseSimone Veil, a French political icon who survived Nazi death camps and went on to become a moral figurehead for France, was inducted Thursday into the Academie Francaise — the sixth woman to cross the portals of the centuries-old institution. Three ...
Holocaust survivor Veil joins French 'immortals'
AFP Global Edition
Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor and the first elected president of the European parliament, on Thursday joined the Academie Francaise, the elite intellectual guardians of the French language. The 82-year-old Veil, a former French minister who ranks among the country's most respected politicians, was only the sixth woman to ...
Why Some People Ad Lib Their Own Lyrics
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You probably have experienced being annoyed by a person who puts wrong lyrics when singing your favorite song? Worse, such person may even keep on singing the song and adds even more blunders by putting on more wrong lyrics. Some people simply could not help putting an ad lib or ...
Did Halle Berry Really Show me That I Need to Learn a Foreign Language?
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The other morning when I woke up I made up my mind that I was going to learn a foreign language. The decision was to learn Spanish.This was not a spur of the moment thing but something I decided overnight. Well maybe it was a spur of the moment ...
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