He was only a little bloke and he must have read the danger signals in my body language and tone of voice, but he sat down opposite me anyway and continued to engage me.
In my case, specializing in foreign language work has been critical to remaining a viable candidate for various jobs.
This is not just pedantry, although I am happy to admit to wanting to be careful in my use of language.
And while I can read from the "Haggadah" in English (my language skills have improved somewhat since I was first called upon to recite the Four Questions), it's not the same thing.
So I called Lee up and let him set me straight, which he did in far calmer language than I had used in my post.
There were very few English-language books in my childhood home.
Language fails me in my gratitude for everyone who helped bring this project to life.
The words, even buffered by a foreign language, nearly caught in my throat.
As I explain in my book, Critical Decisions, this failure starts with the language we physicians use when conversing with our patients.
Beginning at 8am my very knowledgeable guide, who was also completely fluent in the English language, whisked me away (on foot) as we proceeded to walk through the Forum, into the Colosseum and over to the Pantheon.
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I'm in the eighth grade so, naturally, I chose Japanese as my second foreign language.
This is extremely cool in my view, and takes a significant step toward the Holy Grail of removing language as a barrier between people.
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As I noted in my profile, people use YY for a variety of purposes, including karaoke, language education, and business meetings.
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But that's the extent of my unpleasant scrapes in a dozen visits that have taken me to home-stay language courses, traditional Mayan markets, mummy museums, cenotes (surreal limestone sinkholes in which you can swim) and even Zapatista zones in the south.
Hebrew lessons typically start several years, not several months, before your 13th birthday, and since I had no facility for language in the first place, it was only a couple of weeks before my teachers deemed me hopeless and, instead of teaching me Hebrew, had me performing maintenance chores, such as cleaning the school's blackboards.
My concern is that if it's documents or books and they're in a foreign language, the heirs won't know what they are and may just toss them.
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As a Hispanic female, a child of immigrants, and an English language learner, I feel that my entire life I have been preparing to engage in this work in our community.
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During my studies I was heavily interested in Artificial Intelligence, things like neural nets, fuzzy logic, natural language processing.
And, of course, because the conscious mind is so limited in its capacity, trying to drive body language with it will cause it to overload quickly, like my executive did.
What I'm trying to do with my music style is identify what has been overlooked for so many centuries in classical music, is our native language.
If I'm Luis Suarez sitting at home with my wife and family, who absolutely love it here -- they love life in Liverpool and learning the language -- it's arguable he will never have a better season than he has had this.
"The NSPCC are very keen for me to moderate my language on this but I am very angry that... we still have a situation in a supposed civilised society that children report that appearing in court is worse than the abuse they suffered in the first place, " he said.
Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Mr Clegg said he was "unambiguous in my condemnation of anyone, from whatever party including my own, who uses insensitive, intemperate, provocative and offensive language".
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