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’80s Rap for the “Holiday” Season Posted by on Nov 5, 2011

I know I’m on a roll with these nostalgic posts, helping you imagine Holland as it was in the ’80s and early ’90s, but, hey, autumn is the time to be thinking about the past.  Today I want to introduce you, or re-introduce you, as the case may be, to the 1987 hit “Holiday,” by…

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Dat ik altijd huiswerk heb Posted by on Oct 25, 2011

I continue to think that music is a good way of starting to understand a language.  It takes work, but parsing the lines to a simple song can be a fun way to get into some new, perhaps offbeat, vocabulary.  Sometimes songs are a good window into nonsense words, or idiomatic facets of language that…

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