Last Friday, an interviewer asked me how I would describe myself.

I stammered: “I’m not exactly sure how to answer that.” So she turned the question around: “How would your friends describe you?”

To be honest, I wonder the same. My current close friends are not very verbose on …

At the falling edge of a sharp spring morning…

… an aspiring teacher shares his experience of Bargoens, also called “Thieves tongue”, a Yiddich-Hebrew-Dutch dialect spoken in Amsterdam between the 19th and 20th century.

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