Tag: english as second language

July 30, 2025

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Books

Portable Homelands: A Conversation Between Writers

Elif Shafak and Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah speak to belonging, language, and the many meanings of home
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August 14, 2024

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Immigration

On giving up your “real” name after immigrating

How I learned a different way to speak my name out of practicality- and the implications that come with it
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July 31, 2024

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Immigration, Life in Toronto

A day in the life of a truly multicultural city

How’s it like to bump into 10 nationalities per day in Toronto – and the struggle to pronounce people’s names
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April 19, 2024

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Immigration

How’s it Like to Live a Bilingual Life?

Why my phone keeps autocorrecting ‘some’ to ‘sobre’ and what to do with the 2 sets of grammar in your brain.
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