The language resources listed on this page serve as a supplement to the learning methods. This page is for who likes to go about learning foreign languages at an oblique angle. It focuses on language context resources, and it includes food, travel, literature, trends, fashion, and it occasionally aspires to draw from even more oblique angles.
Babette’s Feast (short story).
One-liner Synopsis: A small and pious Norwegian community welcomes a celebrity French chef fleeing the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution. A delightful story about a lot more than just food.
Any public library will likely have a few copies of this classic.
The Fall of the House of Usher (film).
One-liner Synopsis: Based on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story of the same title, this film is an expressionistic take on the gothic genre – which may be the best genre to host a throwback to the currents beneath the American pop culture. This is a procession of nightmarish moods and spooky energy and spaces which the film unexpectedly springs on the unwitting American English language learner. Always fun to watch.