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Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Anything Awkward Bars Beginnings Benefits Courage Dinner Dinner Parties Easier Foreign Foreign Language Gets Give Going Grace Keep Keep Going Language Like Moments More Parties Practice Requires Restaurants Stumble Tennis Then Unexpected World Worry You

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I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.

~C. V. Raman

Topics: Children Facts Feel Foreign Foreign Language Immoral Know Language Miss Science Spirit Teach Try Unnatural Will I Feel

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

~Christopher Morley

Topics: Foreign Foreign Language Language Life Life Is A Men

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The way the educational system in Russia works is studying a foreign language is part of the program, so by the time you get to the age of 10, you pick up another language. I speak a bit of Russian, a bit of English, a bit of Spanish a bit of French.

~Costa Ronin

Topics: Age Another Bit By The Time Educational English Foreign Foreign Language French Get Language Part Pick Program Russia Russian Spanish Speak Studying System Time Up Way Works You

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I grew up in Indianapolis, Ind., then a conservative, provincial city. Anglophilia was the first foreign language I was exposed to. Or maybe it was a way of one-upping the local white people. Or maybe it was an early manifestation of homohood.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: City Conservative Early Exposed First Foreign Foreign Language Grew Language Local Manifestation Maybe People Provincial Then Up Way White

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'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

~Denis Villeneuve

Topics: About Arrival Communication Dissect Film Foreign Foreign Language How Intuition Language Little More Precisely Talks Very

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After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.

~Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Topics: After Alphabet Attended Because Difficult East Ended Family First Foreign Foreign Language Found Fourth Germany Grade Had Language Learn Quite Right Russian School Second Second World War Seemed Time Turmoil Up War World World War

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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

~Fabrice Luchini

Topics: Foreign Foreign Language French Language Learning Like Me Rich Sacred

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