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As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages. Alexander Dreymon

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Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language. Alvaro Enrigue

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I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. Andy Lau

Other Similar Sounds Chinese Languages Many Using Start

I was very adept at acquiring languages. Anna Held

Adept Very Acquiring Languages

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. Anne Rice

Beginning Ancient Study Read Am Greek Languages

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

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Speaking two languages fluently makes each language not so important. Arca

Language Important Fluently Makes Languages Speaking Each Two

I love dabbling in various genres and languages. Armaan Malik

Love Various Genres Languages Dabbling

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict. Avigdor Lieberman

Conflict People World Every Religions Friction Where Place Languages Two

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

Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool. Barry Jenkins

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I was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and I would go to school in Texas. I lived on the border, so I was very fortunate to grow up between two worlds and both cultures and both languages and traditions. Bianca Marroquin

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. Bill Hayden

Will Depend Support Underlying Alternate Languages Largely

When I moved to Paris, I understood where I was coming from. Before that, I wasn't aware how Cameroonian I was! I realized our tradition and languages make me completely different. At that moment, I decided to try to use my music to explain to people about my continent and its problems. Blick Bassy

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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. Bono

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk. Carey Williams

Speak Must Diplomat Order Languages Including Number

Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength. Charles Hazlewood

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Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months. Cheech Marin

Wife Three Self-Defense Months Out Born Russia Russian French Learn Italian Five Spanish Languages Speaks English Her Watched

Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch. Christian de Duve

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