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Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry)

@klfnb.bsky.social

Retired linguist, language teacher, and researcher in Maryland. Now doing what I love: reading, traveling with my hubby, working on our family tree, spending time with grandchildren, working out, studying languages, substitute teaching, walking Sophie.

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Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry) @klfnb.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

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Medieval Tales of Merlin and Arthur, Hidden for Centuries, Return to Light (Gift Article)

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents.

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Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry) @klfnb.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

In 1978 I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal working on a USAID rural health program in the Sine-Saloum region of the country. The program’s goal was to construct health huts in selected villages so that people could get basic medicines without leaving the village.

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Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry) @klfnb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Sophie: “I’m too old to deal with snow on my feet. Please shovel down to the grass for me.”

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Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry) @klfnb.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Enjoying my new book - a Christmas present from my daughter.

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Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry) @klfnb.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all.

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Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry) @klfnb.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Just started White Nights by Ann Cleeves. One of the things I most like about her writing is the incorporation of Shetland vocabulary. So far I have come across "simmer dim", "voe", and "soothmoother" - I just love it. Thank you @anncleeves.bsky.social for the chance to escape to #Shetland each day.

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Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry) @klfnb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sophie is not sure she wants to go to the Vet. She keeps popping out of her carrier.

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Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry) @klfnb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I was in 5th grade at Verdugo Woodlands Elementary School in Glendale, California. It was morning. All teachers were told to bring students outside to the flagpole. Then the principal told us that the President was dead. We silently went back to class. My teacher started to cry.

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Karen Fisher-Nguyen (Berry) @klfnb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I have always loved mystery fiction. Right now I am working my way through Ann Cleeves' Shetland series. Blue Lightning was superb with its details about life on Fair Isle, the most remote inhabited island in the UK.

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