We become fluent in reading body language long before we master verbal language.
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No, you probably took a class, took tests and read books to master the language.
They understand the need for their youngsters to master this language, even if it is not spoken at home.
Just as they sought to master the language of the sea in the novels of Patrick O'Brian ( Obituary, January 15th), so they patiently deciphered the fantastic world of Mr Powell's England. (An American newspaper thoughtfully explained that he preferred to have his name pronounced to rhyme with Lowell.) Perhaps they took it seriously.
You can appreciate how impressive this is only if you have attempted to master a foreign language yourself.
Why does a competent citizen have to master a state language?
But he's also careful to point out that Macaulay was racist, harboured prejudices about native Indians and customs and, despite being a linguist, did not attempt to master any Indian language.
It seems reasonable to conclude that English is the only language you need to master, but this complacency breeds catastrophe.
Handed down over centuries from master to pupil, it is the only whistled language in the world that is fully developed and practised by a large community (more than 22, 000 inhabitants).
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It seems the Italian language is one of the most logical and simplest to master.
When I went to the bible of American English, Mencken's famous 1921 book The American Language, and looked up "quite", the master had written the very opposite definition.
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