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How to Learn Any Language 53
English
The mere fact that you’re reading these words right now calls for self congratulations. It means you’re fluent in the winner, the international language, the number one language of all time!
When a Soviet plane approaches the airport in China, the pilot and the co ...
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Indonesian
Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Consisting of hundreds of islands spread out over a South Pacific area the size of the United States, Indonesia is easily the largest country in the world about which the most other people in the world know ...
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Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
The Scandinavian languages are lumped together because of their similarity and the reliability with which natives of one Scandinavian country can deal with the languages of the others. That similarity is something for you to know and enjoy, not ...
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Japanese
Like Chinese, Japanese conversation is fairly easy, but the written language is complicated. In wartime, America turned out interpreters in Japanese and Chinese at a satisfactory rate by going straight for the spoken language and ignoring the written language com ...
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How to Learn Any Language 49
Chinese
Chinese is actually more of a life involvement than a language you choose to study. When you’re in your easy chair studying, Chinese has more power to make you forget it’s dinner time than any other language. It has more power to draw you out of bed earlier than n ...
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German
Germany didn’t leave us a world of colonies where people still speak German, but they may as well have. In addition to being the principal language of Germany, Austria, and one of the three main languages of Switzerland, German is, surprisingly, the language most n ...
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Spanish
Spanish seems to be the “natural” second language for Americans, owing to our proximity to the Spanish-speaking centres of North, Central, and South America and the growing prevalence of Spanish in our country. It’s easier for Americans to speak good Spanish than ...
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Farber’s Language Reviews
We have such things as theatre reviews, movie reviews, books reviews, and restaurant reviews to help trusting readers decide which plays, movies, books, and restaurants are worth their time and money.
So here’s a series of language reviews – thu ...
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How to Learn Any Language 45
The Principal Languages of the World
Source: Sidney S. Culbert, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 98195
Total number of speakers (native plus nonnative) of languages spoken by at least one million persons (midyear 1989)
Language ...
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How to Learn Any Language 44
The Language Club
In 1984 some of us language lovers decided that, although there were plenty of places in New York to learn foreign languages, there were no places to go to practice foreign languages.
Sure, you can let fly a greeting in Italian and a request for red pepp ...
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How to Learn Any Language 43
To Speak or Not to Speak
Be neither too boorish nor too reticent with your new knowledge. Don’t go barrelling in with scant command of a language if doing so causes ungainly delays in a busy restaurant. Neither should you let shyness deny you a good opportunity to send a ...
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How to Learn Any Language 42
Reward-and-Denial Games
There is a clever way to speed learning. Impose little discipline games on yourself geared to bringing you back to the language often throughout the day for short periods that can’t possibly get in your way. Don’t let yourself have the first cup of ...
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How to Learn Any Language 41
Last Words Before the Wedding
It is my hope that this volume will help those who’ve never yet dared to make the commitment, march to the altar, and “marry” another language. If you’ve already studied other languages, perhaps tried for years with disappointing results, le ...
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How to Learn Any Language 40
FORMS OF ADDRESS
English is deceptively easy in forms of address. Everybody in second person singular and plural is you. Your spouse is you. Your four year old child is you. Your interior decorator is you. The President of the United States is you. Your cocker spaniel is ...
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ADJECTIVES
Adjectives are words that describe nouns. In the phrase “the green pen,” green is the adjective that describes pen. You’ll encounter some fuss about them because in many languages adjectives have to AGREE WITH (appear in the same form as) the nouns they MODIFY ...
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