The first posts come from the early days, when Language by Doing was a handful of cooking nights in Berlin.
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Who learns languages more easily, children or adults?
Everyone says children pick up languages faster. I think adults have the better tools. Children just have no choice, and that part works for adults too.
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The cow exploded
Growing up near Ramstein, early DVDs from the American base, and a friend who learned his English from movies and video games.
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Oh my, Apfelkuchen!
The second Language by Doing session in Berlin, where people who'd never made one baked a sheet of grandmother-style apple cake.
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Great success! Bratkartoffeln are delicious!
The very first Language by Doing session in Berlin, with five people, fried potatoes and red cabbage, and a lesson about which language a group falls back on.
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Drinking in Japanese
A year as an exchange student near Osaka, and why the bar counter taught me more Japanese than my conversation partners did.
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Cooking with friends
Weekly “international hot-pot” nights in a student dorm in Japan, and why a shared meal is the easiest place to start talking in another language.