Did you know that more than half of the world’s population (that means over 3.5 billion people) is bilingual or multilingual? “Contrary to what is often believed, most of the world’s population is bilingual or multilingual. Monolingualism is characteristic only of a minority of the world’s peoples.” [LSA resource] Strangely this monolingual minority is almost […]
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“It is dead night… The stars are shining in the sky tonight, the snow lies white all around, the frost is cruel… Here is a lonely old farm where everyone is sleeping. All but one… The Tomten is awake. He lives in a…
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“”My Old Kentucky Home” is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster, probably composed in 1852… The song described originally an everyday scene on a slave plantation and was a beloved song in minstrel shows….Abolitionists thought the song stimulated ‘the sympathies for the slave, in which anti-slavery principles take root and flourish’… It became the official state song of Kentucky on March 19, 1928
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