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Elie Touma

GLN is a great place to fix the world by building communication bridges! I am all about that. An engineer by profession but languages lover forever. I write poetry in Arabic since I was 8, my dad was Arabic literature teacher for 40 years. All...
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Riccardo Ruffolo

When I started high school my French teacher started our first class by writing a quote about multilingualism on the blackboard and made everyone write it down. The quote was in Italian but it loosely translates to “since words are the instrument of thought, those...
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Moyan Lu

I started as a student with GLN learning Korean and then became a teaching fellow for Chinese Mandarin! I love sharing, teaching and making friends from all over the world. I appreciate this great opportunity to meet with students and learn Chinese at GLN!  ...
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Daisuke Horibe

My future goal is to be a global human resource who works at a multinational company. I'm interested in interacting with people who have a different culture and background, the multicultural environment, where people can forge favorable relationships regardless of nationalities, and develop their multicultural...
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Lang Gao

Lang is currently working at an international research institute on agricultural development with a focus on Africa and South Asia. Her enthusiasm goes for approaches to empowering people in poverty. Meanwhile, she is also fond of photography, documentary producing, script writing and instrument playing –...
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Lucas Regnér

I met my wonderful finacé here in D.C. But as a foreigner, I worried about what this meant for the prospects of eventually moving back home. Now, if you've met the right one, your partner will take the time...
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