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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For many years after he moved to the Continent, he scraped a living as a language teacher in Berlitz schools, a job he disliked.

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In 1980, the first book, The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz (of language school fame) and William L. Moore, put the debacle 190 miles west of Roswell, in the Plains of San Agustin (site No. 2) .

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Berlitz is an interesting case in point.

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Over the past 10 years, instructors at Berlitz Language Schools have been asked to put more emphasis on the context in which particular terms are used, says Shawn Scott, North America's director of instruction at Berlitz International, which runs schools around the world.

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