Language is very important to me – one day, hopefully, it will even begin paying the bills. Still, it is to my ‘job’ what paint and cement-blocks are to builders. So, naturally, the imminent arrival of baby’s first words is…
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Category: Parenting, Uncategorized, Writing
Tags: bilingual, English language, fatherhood, German, Hebrew language, Japan, Judaism, languages, London, Mandarin, parenthood, Social Sciences, speech
Today, I did something I hate to do: I drove in Tel-Aviv. I’m glad I did. As is always the case, there was no parking, so I queued for a place at the parking lot which, once-upon-an-Ottoman-time, was the railway…
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Category: lovely little things, The City, Uncategorized
Tags: bookstore, Cairo, Hebrew language, independent, Israel, Istanbul, Middle East, Palestinian people, Tel-Aviv
