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Foreign Language Quotes
The challenge and reward of learning new tongues
These quotes argue foreign language teaching should start early, comparing resistance to it with old pride in avoiding math.
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The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.
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The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.
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There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020