We were "learning the language with which God created life" and with this profound new knowledge "humankind would gain immense new power to heal".
Many fewer school students are learning the language than did so 10 years ago, meaning fewer have the slightest idea what Rammstein are on about.
The key, he says, is not just being in different cultures, but being open to immersion: learning the language, adapting to an alternate way of life.
Critics deplored newspaper tabloids, which catered to first-generation immigrants learning the language and time-pressed laborers grabbing a few minutes to read lurid headlines on the train.
More than 60 years after independence, English has become a passport to upward mobility in the wildly aspirational former colony, and more Indians are learning the language than ever before.
I'm really interested in learning the language and it's good to see articles now being written in Manx in the local newspapers - not that I can understand more than a few words.
One school had a Spanish national on the staff and another teacher with a degree in Spanish - and every other member of staff had volunteered to devote one evening a week to learning the language.
The scheme for children from nursery age upwards will follow the model established on that scheme of having all the teachers and assistants in the schools involved learning the language to be taught, rather than bringing in specialist teachers.
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.
In another cut of the data, we recently ranked the findings on four criteria to find the Friendliest Countries: ability to befriend locals, success in learning the local language, capacity for integrating themselves into the community, and ease in which they fit into the new culture.
Jonathan Brown, 50, of Furzton spent 12 years learning the fictional language of the alien race from Star Trek films.
Currently 1% of young Scots are learning the Celtic language of their country, compared to 7% in Ireland and 21% in Wales.
Deplorable living conditions, difficulties learning the English language and dealing with the rustic surroundings of minor league baseball in a foreign country were commonplace issues.
David Reynolds, a professor of education at Plymouth University, said learning Welsh had "really taken off" and that any reservations about learning the local language seemed to have disappeared.
The ending of compulsory language learning after the age of 14 in 2004 brought England into line with Scotland and Wales.
But they add that this "does not challenge the fact that experience is also crucial for their fine tuning and for learning the specific properties of the native language".
The value of learning any particular language is increased by the number of people who already speak it.
Cyr, 26, who attended the February workshop to scope out the possibility of developing a language learning app for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
The Arno provides beginners with interesting circuits built right into the board, so they can focus on learning the basics of electronics and the Arduino language without needing to assemble and troubleshoot circuits.
The third step in brain mastery involves learning how to read the body language of others around you.
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The Ho-Chunk language-learning app is the latest idea he's brought to the table.
Then I set my sights on a doubling our revenues and capturing much more of the language learning and edutainment market.
"The Language Learning Center offers hundreds of hours of video content in over 50 languages to students and faculty, with a growing library of video assets, " said Bob Majors, Senior Computing Specialist, University of Washington.
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The students are participating in an annual culture and language learning trip to China through the University of Maryland's Confucius Institute.
One of the better known players in the language-learning space is Rosetta Stone, with online and software-based products, is ripe for disruption, According to Meinzer.
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Therefore, I appeal to governments, NGOs and civil society to contribute to the improvement of our intercultural skills through the arts, sport, humanities and language learning and to enhance our diversity for the benefit of all.
In May, a study commissioned by the Scottish government said children in Scotland should begin learning a second language as soon as they started school at the age of five.
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With the temple to Goddess English, he hopes to attract the villagers to language and learning.
On a personal note, I intend to start learning Welsh, so I can help the language grow.
At the 2011 event, language learning company WordswithBears took first place.
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