Margo Weinstein

Margo Weinstein

Lingua Franca: You can travel the world even in you only speak English

You want to travel the world, but you are an American and only speak English. How will you get around? Will you be able to communicate? No worries. Although people around the world speak approximately 6,500 different languages, more than half the world’s population speaks just twenty-three of these languages. Again, no worries, you don’t …

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Harbin, China: Where Celsius and Fahrenheit meet at -40 degrees, or There is No such Thing as Bad Weather, only Bad Clothing

The Norwegians have a saying: “Det fins ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær.” In English, there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. The Swedes and the Finns say it too. Not me. Bad weather too often means a bad trip that cannot be saved by any amount of good clothing. Keeping outer …

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