I read French and German at Howland College, Cambridge and stayed there to take my Ph.D in the dialects of Northeast France.

我在剑桥大学豪兰学院学习法语和德语，并在那里攻读关于法国东北方言的博士学位。

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I read French and German at Howland College, Cambridge and stayed there to take my Ph.D in the dialects of North-East France.

我在剑桥的豪兰学院读法语和德语，并留在那里攻读法国东北方言的博士学位。

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The dialects in the UK come from a number of other languages. There are words taken from the Vikings, the French and the Romans when they settled in there.

英国的方言来自一些外来语言，当维京人、法国人，还有古罗马人在此定居时，他们语言中的一些词汇也因此进入英国的方言。

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Indeed, perhaps the surprise is that the victory of French over the dialects was not completed more quickly: in the 1850s, one in five Frenchmen still could not speak French.

ECONOMIST: How multilingual is France?

He seemed to know everyone and could talk to them in English or French, and was familiar with the range of curious dialects known as Swiss-German.

ECONOMIST: Fritz Leutwiler