Nikki Johnson said her parents were channel surfing Sunday -- looking for a cartoon for their granddaughter to watch -- when they saw video of their Shoshana being broadcast by Spanish-language television station Telemundo, before the family had even learned she was missing.

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They soon learned to browse the Web in English, even though they lacked facility in the language.

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For many centuries, even millennia, the world got by without translation: the people of different nations simply learned enough of the next door language to communicate adequately.

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