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08/01/2022

We’re now on www.inlancc.com

01/08/2019

“I am in terrible ignorance of everything. I know not what my body is, nor my senses, nor my soul, not even that part of me which thinks what I say, which reflects on all and on itself, and knows itself no more than the rest (...) " Blaise Pascal

30/04/2019

Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson

29/04/2019

Sugar 'not necessary' for a good cuppa

Cutting it out does not affect people's fondness for tea, according to new research.

19/04/2019

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190418-the-fatalistic-phrase-that-every-culture-has

What does しょうがない　stand for ?

“Shou ga nai” is a Japanese phrase that can be depressingly fatalistic on one hand. But could it — and the many phrases like it — be weirdly freeing on the other?

19/02/2019

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190219-how-to-learn-a-language-in-an-hour-a-day

Being bilingual has vast benefits – but getting there needn’t be a lifelong slog.

19/02/2019

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p06y5hmn/rent-a-sister-coaxing-japan-s-young-men-out-of-their-rooms

At least half a million young men in Japan are thought to have withdrawn from society, and refuse to leave their bedrooms. They’re known as hikikomori. Their families often don’t know what to do, but one organisation is offering “sisters for hire” to help coax these young men out of their is...

01/01/2019

FROM US TO U

29/12/2018

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

Americans today pronounce some words more like Shakespeare than Brits do… but it’s in 18th-Century England where they’d really feel at home.

23/12/2018

Christmas is here
2019 is knocking!!!
We wish you a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!