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And I have a favorite this year.

It's called Lingo, and it's subtitled Around the World in 60 Languages.

So you know, it's already exciting, right?

It's by Gaston Doran, who's a Dutch guy. He's a linguist, and not only a linguist and a polyglot, he speaks five or six languages and reads

several others, but he's also a journalist, which means that he takes you on this whirlwind

tour of 60 different languages in

Europe, and he's talking about syntax and grammar and vocabulary and usage, but as a journalist,

he has this wonderful gift for metaphor and simile and storytelling. And along the way, you pick up

great little words from other languages, like the

fact that in Dutch there's a word outvayan, which means to relax by visiting a windy place.

Outfion. Who knew? Yeah. It means literally to walk in the wind. But, you know, to go to maybe a place

that's windy or rainy and just

vacation there, relax, take a walk in the rains. That sounds nice, actually, right? Isn't that nice? Yeah.

Yeah, I also learned from reading this book that Latvian not only has a word for the day before

yesterday, but it has a word for the day before the day before yesterday.

How cool is that?

So all these great little tidbits and some really cool, chewy stuff about language.

It's called Lingo by Gaston Doran.

We'll be recommending more books later in the show.

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