I sometimes watch English language teachers doing their thing on youtube for the purpose of asking myself if their yammering actually helps anyone gain a better understanding of a complicated language, or rather, as I find is usually the case, these channels are little more than panhandling with a posh accent. There is a carny …
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Liberty Through Inarticulation
“I’m glad you asked me twice. You see I’m a bilingual. A bilingual illiterate – I can’t read in two languages.” You’d think, wouldn’t you, that watching a foreign film without subtitles to guide you would be a frustrating, confounding experience. Not so. For film is a visual medium and the script is really just …
The Bottle Dungeon 