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Foreign Languages
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I have a friend from my graduate school days at The Ohio State University whom we nicknamed Aladdin. Aladdin and I took a number of Arabic classes together. Every now and then, we would play pick-up basketball at the university gym. Aladdin couldn’t shoot, but he was one of the quickest, most intense defenders I have ever seen. One day, he went high up for a layup at 100 mph, bumped a defender, and fell square on his head. Aladdin lay there motionless for a few minutes before gingerly getting up
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― The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me
― The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me
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If you look around the room you are in right now, you will observe a great diversity of items, shapes, sizes, textures, colors, and functions, with all their associated nuances and subtleties. Every career, hobby, occupation, sport, industry, philosophy, plant, animal, object, event, and sensory experience–visual and otherwise–corresponds to a specific language. Language, in a word, is all-encompassing, and there are numerous registers, dialects, idioms, metaphors, and synonyms that express the
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― The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me
― The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me
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