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Overview

  • 4 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Basque, English, French, Russian, Spanish; learning Catalan, Valencian, Finnish
  • 32, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Fieldwork and computational linguistics
  • Moscow State University, University of the Basque Country
  • From Samara, Samara, Russian Federation
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About Me

All my life and work are tightly related to diverse languages. I advocate much for the preservation and cultivation of indigenous languagues in order to make the world brighter. I also favour minority communities in its wide terms.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

For me Couchsurfing is a unique oportunity to embrace the internal life of the society through the lenses of positive and open locals.

Interests

Linguistic and cultural diversity, documentaries, fieldwork, natural language processing

Music, Movies, and Books

Into the Wild (2007), the film about wandering across North America and experiences in the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I slept on bear and reindeer hides deep in Siberian taiga.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, Spain, United States

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