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The Profile: Spotify's biggest dealmaker & the corporate kidnappers

Language shapes your thoughts, your perspective, and your worldview.

Polina Pompliano
Aug 16, 2020
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The year before my family moved to the United States, my dad was helping me learn basic English. I was 7 years old at the time. We had the following exchange:

Me: “So Americans speak English, but they think in Bulgarian, right?” 
Him: “Uh...what do you mean?”
Me: “Like they think in Bulgarian, but then they translate it to English when they speak?” 
Him: “N…

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