You might ask your brother, "Is it okay if I borrow your car? Or if someone asks you to do something, you might say,Okay,I will. Still,language experts do not agree about where the word came from.

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Student: The beauty of the language and symmetry, the sentence structure, the word choice: I guess going away from the theme, more of just the language.

语言的优美和对称，句子结构，选用的词：,我想除开主题，我更喜欢它的语言。

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But you know, I understand it's a challenge when you're coming from a language that doesn't have any concept of an article.

但是，我能够理解当你的母语没有冠词的概念时，它将是一个挑战。

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And while I can read from the "Haggadah" in English (my language skills have improved somewhat since I was first called upon to recite the Four Questions), it's not the same thing.

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Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.

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But I love this language we have and what it can do, and aside from that I think the themes in his plays are always relevant.

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