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Music and increased generosity
Hello Dear Reader, Happy New Year! I hope that 2015 brings you happiness, prosperity and good health. I am starting the year with rather bad health. After a hectic end of the year at Sheffield University, a busy trip to Vietnam, and a full Christmas playing hostess to my family, my poor tired body gave in to a bad cold. Luckily I am in Spain with my future in-laws. This means I can get plenty of rest away from ‘normal life’ and my mother in law to-be spends her time spoiling me to try and fix me as quickly as possible. Such kindness and selfless behaviour is one of the…
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Learn a new language by singing
Hello Dear Reader Today I am thinking about foreign languages. People who come from monolingual familiesĀ and who are raised in the UK school system are notorious across the world for being poor at speaking foreign languages. My Kenyan friend Kim once told meĀ a joke that I have repeated to knowing laughter on many occasions since: ‘ People who speak more than two languages are called multi-lingual, people who speak two language are called bilingual….people who speak one language are called British’ This may be an unfair generalisation but it applies to me, no argument. I learned French for 3 years at school and German for 1 year. I lived in…