They found work through a private agency after taking an intensive course in Dutch, the language most commonly spoken in the north of Belgium.

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Born and raised in California, he took a Berlitz course to help him learn the language after the Expos drafted him.

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After all, if our thoughts are necessarily imprisoned by language, as Sapir-Whorf suggests, then the only sensible course of action is to build a roomier, more lavish jail cell with all the amenities an inmate could possibly desire a new language that could make possible new ways of thinking.

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