While we were cramming to learn English or Mandarin, we forgot to learn the vocabulary of the foreign language of our feelings.

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What could we learn from the masters of English about great communications?

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And as long as worker protections are in place for both US workers and these folks that are coming, it makes a lot more sense that they come through legal channels so that we know who they are so that they can be taxed so that we can require them to learn English and adopt American values.

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We're already talking about requiring illegal immigrants to learn English, pay fines, and return to their home countries to earn legal status.

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It's one thing for a robot to learn English, Japanese, or any other language that we humans have already mastered.

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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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"We learn to exchange e-mail, make our own Web pages and, best of all, improve our English, " says Yang Yimei, who is from the town of Simao, in China's southwestern Yunnan province.

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