Ms de Vere Taylor said while she accepted language had to evolve, in her opinion the council's decision was a backward step.
She considered Germany, Austria and Scotland, her mother says, before deciding on Italy, a place she'd never been and where the people spoke a language she hadn't studied.
Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.
But even near the end, when she'd lost command of language, she'd mouth the words to "Dayenu" with a smile on her face.
In 1992, she continued her language education in an Advanced French Studies program at the University of British Columbia.
When she criticizes, either in her column or in her editing choices, she uses the language of loyal opposition.
"She is young, attractive, her body language is fantastic and she has a wonderful way with young people, " gushes Congress spokesman Vithal Gadgil.
She is evidently more than capable of explaining in compelling, clear language what precisely she wanted to convey in this speech.
When she apologises for her language, the doctor tells her to think nothing of it.
Duna's success is exceptional, but the language challenge she faced is increasingly common across the U.S. educational map.
Over the weekend, Sarah Palin tweeted out something similar, but the language that she used was very specific.
She sang in every language under the sun, including her own Xhosa unknown to Americans at that time.
They said she had speech and language delays and auditory processing problems.
That sweetness is well caught, and Polley has few peers in the devout attention that she pays to body language and the tales it can tell.
The insurer's contract language, she says, reflects that, "like most homeowner insurers, Allstate provides coverage against losses that occur only on a chance basis, " or where the insured cannot control the loss.
Using informed but clear language, she guides the reader through Darwin's own encounters with giant tortoises, iguanas and finches on these islands in the 1830s that led him, years later, to formulate his theories about the origin and evolution of species.
She spoke a pre-Inca language, Aymara, and through a translator I learned that she was explaining her success at feeding her kids for the first time in her life.
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Ninth-grader Nicole Zido is already fluent in Cantonese, but her parents, both from Hong Kong, want her to learn Mandarin, China's official language, but Zido says she has her own motivation for wanting to learn the language.
She had embraced Greece, and its language, as a student, but when she later moved back there, with her Greek husband and two daughters, she found much to dismay her such as the rigid education system and the bigotry towards immigrants.
She and her husband "both understand the language now, so we get it, " she says.
"It flows so well in the English language because that's the original language, " she says.
"If others don't like this school, I don't care, " she says, using sign language.
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When the family moved to Turkey she had to learn another language from scratch.
And she is afraid that such language does have an effect on how Americans view Muslims.
Now, she is taking a German language course with other young migrants, many of whom have far less education.
During language arts, she gets pulled out with three other new arrivals for extra help on grammar and phonics.
Better language skills, she reckons, are a product less of market demand than of a general enthusiasm for China.
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In spite of the language barrier, she tries to swap memories with me.
Shahzad's wife spoke English, but was apparently so insecure about her language ability that she told people she did not, Thurman said.
Several times Shipman upbraided his own counsel for her convoluted language, insisting she rephrase the question, though he had clearly understood it all along.
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