English is the international language of the sea so we don't really have to learn another language although we do pick up nautical terms in different languages and some pilots are multi-lingual and some are not, it's not desperately important that you know another language.

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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.

ECONOMIST: Anthony Powell

The written evidence is thin to non-existent, and the import of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the few sources for the period that is mainly in a Semitic language, is hotly contested.

ECONOMIST: The origins of Christianity

Hike into Chinchero , an adobe village overlooking the Sacred Valley of the Incas and believed to be the mythical birthplace of the rainbow. (Love this.) Visit the village of Huilloc where weavers still speak the language of their Incan ancestors and still grow crops on tiny terraced plots 12, 000 feet above sea level.

FORBES: Higher Than A Kite In Peru