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My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.
Arabella Weir
People
Coffee
Parents
Important
Books
Drank
Pleasure
Kids
Out
Degrees
Both
Winners
Had
Spoke
Like
Read
Foreign
Real
Foreign Languages
Were
Overweight
Oxford
Children
Cut
Languages
Who
Fat
Museums
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Barbara Ehrenreich
You
Fear
Otherwise
Say
Out
Purpose
Come
Know
Make
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Chief
Just
Common
Us
Languages
Speakers
Fun
Why
Why Not
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Emma Bonino
Knowledge
Degree
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Very
Graduation
Literature
Languages
Useful
University
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.
Ibrahim Rugova
Great
Situation
Young
President
About
Having
More
Potential
Employment
Concerned
Around
Am
Foreign
Kosovo
Foreign Languages
Current
Current Situation
Expertise
Which
Languages
Speaking
Standing
Many
Population
Wide
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.
Lawrence R. Klein
Education
Mathematics
Good
Me
History
Training
School
System
High
High School
Stead
School System
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Subjects
Where
Public
Realize
Languages
English
Public School
Served
Basic
Early
Omaha
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
Marilyn Hacker
Creative
Writing
Programs
States
Per
Given
Studies
Study
Over
Well
Courses
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Text
Graduate
Literature
Languages
Theory
Creative Writing
Keep
Preponderance
United
United States
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.
Tom Wlaschiha
Me
You
School
Mother
Language
Demanding
Some
Only
Emotional
Missing
Another
Because
Mother Tongue
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Quite
The Only Thing
Interested
Depth
Certain
Your
Certain Things
Languages
Connotations
Thing
Things
Tongue
Playing
If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?
Harold Ford, Jr.
School
Opportunities
Will
Country
Enrichment
Summer
Kids
Jobs
Some
Seek
Attend
Make
Learn
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Up
Get
Contributions
Grades
Across
Your
Languages
Challenging
At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
Walter O'Brien
Software
System
Developed
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Process
Translating
Languages
Help
University
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