He speaks the language of national greatness.

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He speaks the official national language, French, poorly and the unofficial one, Lingala, not at all.

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Like other residents of the town, he speaks a variant of Aramaic, the language used by Jesus himself.

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And he speaks the same ancient Mayan language.

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She, a recent immigrant in need of money, speaks no language he understands. (Thus the understatement.) He, obsessed with launching a concert career, craves approval for his playing that she's not ready to dispense.

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He speaks a language that they understand when he talks about the two Americas, and he talks about his background as a son of a mill worker.

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Very gently, he removes the crab from its pot, cups it in his hands and speaks to it in a secret language, then places it in the bowl with the sticks and covers it.

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