I know some people are boycotting US businesses during the current administration, but the same mindset has ripple effects here in the EU. In other words: stay vigilant!

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      Why does Thorfinn speak in broken English while Sasappis doesn’t? Neither encountered it in their lifetimes, and both have been exposed to it for hundreds of years now.

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        You can spend 200 years listening to a language, but if you don’t try to understand it you never will

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            Also some people no matter how intelligent just can’t fully grasp a new language. They can become functionally fluent but never academically perfect