Dishant Banwari

Last week, I was living La vie en rose—learning French through songs, Duolingo, and a touch of Taylor Swift chaos. This week, pedal-to-the-metal, Taylor Swift chaos hit full throttle as her new album The Life of a Showgirl dropped. It’s honestly wild that our resident tortured poet shifted gears to delivering pure summer-drive bops. And apparently, I’ve picked up her habit of using way too many car metaphors and imagery. I call it my august era (remember when I pulled…

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Before I dive into my second update, let me first translate that title. Let’s start with this song I first heard while watching Emily in Paris. I’ve been listening to Edith Piaf’s La vie en rose this week, and the title itself became a mini French lesson for me. Literally, la vie en rose translates as “life in pink”—though in English we’d say “life through rose-colored glasses.” Here’s the breakdown: la = the (feminine form) vie = life en =…

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I am a proud multilingual learner and educator (and I also hate to admit that ironically, my own native tongue Sindhi is the one I use the least as it is such a minority language). French is the fifth language I want to achieve fluency in. So here’s the big plan: for my major learning project, I’m going all in on my French journey. I actually started Duolingo’s French course back in 2023, and I’ve made it to an intermediate…

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