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    Janice Giffin wrote a new post, The Uses of Distraction, on the site Janice Giffin 1 month, 1 week ago

    As a language teacher, I’ve noticed that learners of a new language pick up more of the target language when they are concentrating on some other activity that distracts them with physical movement. I learned […]

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    Janice Giffin wrote a new post, New activity: translator-editor for Tracce.TV, on the site Janice Giffin 2 months ago

    Sometimes you just fall into a new activity.  I have begun translating and editing the English version of a new web tv portal that promotes local, little-know tourist itineraries for Milan and its surrounding […]

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    Janice Giffin commented on the post, Why Truman Capote makes my heart sing., on the site Janice Giffin 1 year, 2 months ago

    Thank you for your comment…my first, since joining Naiwe! I suppose it is Capote’s small details, so finely drawn, that lead me to perceive the surrounding environment and its emotional atmosphere. An […]

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    Janice Giffin wrote a new post, The Unsaid Word, on the site Janice Giffin 1 year, 2 months ago

    My mother in law, Lily, and I were very close. She was talkative, funny, magnanimous and always took my side. I’m an American expat living in Milan since 1982. My husband’s family left Egypt to move to Italy in […]

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    Janice Giffin wrote a new post, Why Truman Capote makes my heart sing., on the site Janice Giffin 1 year, 2 months ago

    I usually re-read one or another of Truman Capote’s works every six months or so. His works have a voice that speak into my mind’s ear even as I read in complete silence. The Grass Harp, a novella written in 1951, […]

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    Janice Giffin commented on the post, Editing activities, on the site Janice Giffin 2 years ago

    Here is where we have to start…..a place called Somewhere. I reached out for some help to write my first blog ever, and I got it from Janice Campbell, founder of NAIWE. Thank you!

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