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American culture that warms my expat heart

March 13, 2008

I am not going mad. It is 1:30 p.m. in the French speaking part of Switzerland. My children are watching Cartoon Network France. Tom and Jerry to be exact. In English. Just like my brother and I did as little kids. It must be some sort of conspiracy to teach little French speaking kids English. [...]

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Wait a second…I am still in Switzerland, right?

March 7, 2008

I just turned on Cartoon Network for the kids. I heard, “You jerk!”, coming from a characters mouth. Immediately, I had a sense that something wasn’t right. It took me a couple seconds to realize it was because the cartoon was in English and not translated into French. It is the first time after living [...]

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