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Le Laboratoire de Phonétic, Mon Cauchemar

So I returned, after my horrible first experience at the Phonetics Lab, for a second session, because I’d paid for it (mostly) but also because I thought maybe the second time would be more useful and not quite so discouraging. Wrong.  If anything, it was even worse. I was greeted this time by a friendly, vivacious, middle-aged woman whom I’ll call “D”, who asked me for the results of my […]

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Maybe It’s Time To Go Home

Today had to be the low point of my time in Paris.  Where to begin? Well, first of all, I’m getting sick, or am sick, or am fighting off sickness, I’m not quite sure which.  I’ve picked up Suzie’s cold, which makes me feel like I’m running at fifty percent.  This morning I woke up and my throat felt like sandpaper and I wondered how I could possibly get out […]

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