I read French and German at Howland College, Cambridge and stayed there to take my Ph.D in the dialects of Northeast France.

我在剑桥大学豪兰学院学习法语和德语，并在那里攻读关于法国东北方言的博士学位。

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I read French and German at Howland College, Cambridge and stayed there to take my Ph.D in the dialects of North-East France.

我在剑桥的豪兰学院读法语和德语，并留在那里攻读法国东北方言的博士学位。

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Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese are essentially dialects of the same language.

西班牙语、法语、意大利语和葡萄牙语其实就是一种语言的不同方言。

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Indeed, perhaps the surprise is that the victory of French over the dialects was not completed more quickly: in the 1850s, one in five Frenchmen still could not speak French.

ECONOMIST: How multilingual is France?

He seemed to know everyone and could talk to them in English or French, and was familiar with the range of curious dialects known as Swiss-German.

ECONOMIST: Fritz Leutwiler