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Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
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language-learning
language-understanding
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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baaca4a
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HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly. NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well.
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esl
pronunciation
language-learning
language
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George Bernard Shaw |
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Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic but rather to construct social realities that celebrate, acknowledge and affirm differences, variety.
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identity
language-learning
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Bell Hooks |
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"My only comfort was the knowledge that I was not alone. Huddled in the hallways and making the most of our pathetic French, my fellow students and I engaged in the sort of conversation commonly overheard in refugee camps. "Sometime me cry alone at night." "That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay."
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humor
french-language
language-learning
students
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David Sedaris |
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I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything. Kids just have an easier time with words.
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words
language-learning
language-understanding
language
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Brian K. Vaughan |
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Une langue etrangere, c'est comme un muscle frele, delicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit.
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language-learning
talking
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Jhumpa Lahiri |